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Hands-On Chatbot Development with Alexa Skills and Amazon Lex

You're reading from   Hands-On Chatbot Development with Alexa Skills and Amazon Lex Create custom conversational and voice interfaces for your Amazon Echo devices and web platforms

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788993487
Length 266 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sam Williams Sam Williams
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Preface 1. Understanding Chatbots FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started with AWS and Amazon CLI 3. Creating Your First Alexa Skill 4. Connecting Your Alexa Skills to External APIs 5. Building Your First Amazon Lex Chatbot 6. Connecting a Lex Bot to DynamoDB 7. Publishing Your Chatbot to Facebook, Slack, Twilio, and HTTP 8. Improving the User Experience for Your Bots 9. Review and Continued Development 10. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix A 1. Appendix B

Launching your skill

To launch your skill to the Alexa Skill Store, we need to move to the next tab. This is where you will set up the information that will be present on the Alexa Skill Store. You need to give your skill a unique name, short and long descriptions, and example utterances. Then you get to upload an icon and select the category and keywords for your skill. The category and keywords should be carefully considered as this is probably how users are going to find your skills.

The last part on this page is the privacy policy and terms of use URLs. You need to have these if you are going to have a skill in the skills store. There are lots of examples out there and they shouldn't be very complicated for skills that don't store or even ask for user information. Any app that does use and store user information will need a more detailed privacy policy and it may...

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