Building a Cooking Application Using Alexa

In this chapter, you will learn how to create voice user interfaces using the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK), which is necessary to deploy an application to an Amazon Echo device. In order to learn about programming in ASK, you will create a cooking application that teaches the user how to cook a dish step by step. First, you will set up an Amazon Echo and then familiarize yourself with the ASK software development kit. Once comfortable with ASK, you will utilize intents, utterances, and slots in ASK to create the conversations necessary for the cooking application. Then, using Node.js, you will create a Webhook that will provide recipe ideas. Next, you will learn how to debug and test conversations and then deploy Henry's Kitchen to Amazon Echo for further testing. Finally, you will finish this chapter by learning how to back up the Alexa...