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Hands-On Serverless Applications with Kotlin

You're reading from   Hands-On Serverless Applications with Kotlin Develop scalable and cost-effective web applications using AWS Lambda and Kotlin

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788993708
Length 386 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ameya Kulkarni Ameya Kulkarni
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AWS Alexa

In this section, let's have a brief introduction to AWS Alexa and develop a basic skill for the LetsPoll application.

Introduction to Alexa

Alexa is the AWS service for voice processing, which allows intuitive and conversational interfaces to be built for users to interact with applications. Alexa is exposed to end users with proprietary Amazon hardware, such as Echo, Echo Dot, Sonos One, and Echo Plus, in addition to numerous partner devices. Alexa is powered by Amazon Lex, which is a service that marries Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), which converts speech to test, and Natural Language Understanding (NLU), which detects the intent from the text that can be taken as an input to code that responds to that...

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