Learn to Build Amazon Alexa Skills and Converse with Machines: Know how to create Alexa custom skills and master the fundamentals of building conversational, voice user interfaces (VUI)

Vivek Kapoor

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Video Jul 2018 3hrs 55mins 1st Edition

Vivek Kapoor

£7.99 ~~£63.99~~

Video Jul 2018 3hrs 55mins 1st Edition

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Key benefits

- No matter how much of the fundamental knowledge you have, if you are unable to put it to practice, then usually it is of no real value.
- This course not only focuses on getting you ahead of others in understanding how a voice user interface works but helps you build your very own uber cool personal assistant using Amazon Alexa, that can do what you can make it do.
- Building a personal assistant using Alexa custom skills is just one of the techniques, and you will learn very soon that you can design a variety of interfaces through the knowledge that you gain.
- Amazon has always been ahead of the game in terms of building voice interfaces, and you will be able to understand how you can leverage what Amazon has to offer to get you to communicate with machines effectively.

Description

There is a shift happening in the way we as a species communicate with machines. With the advent of Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, Apple Siri, and Microsoft Cortana, the focus on voice user interfaces or voice-activated conversational interfaces is rapidly increasing. This ever-changing world presents a threat to the way we operate, especially when we do not understand it. A more AI aware world might be years away, but if we learn how to talk to and control the machines then we grow collectively. The real goal for this course is to make you competent enough to understand the complexities that go behind designing and creating the voice user interfaces, so that you can immediately assess how different pieces of the puzzle fit together. Yes, Amazon Alexa and similar voice activated interfaces look and sound pretty cool, but it is also possible through the extensive documentation that is available to build systems for these interfaces. However, just learning the syntax of a particular system is not enough. To mature as an individual, you need to gain the foundational skills on how these interfaces operate, and be technology agnostic when it comes to building these conversational interfaces.

Who is this book for?

Anyone who has profound desire to build an artificially intelligent system that listens to their commands.Anyone who would like to get fundamental knowledge on building next generation conversational / voice user interfaces.Developers who would like to build and deploy Alexa Skills.Power users who are interested in extending their Amazon Echo's capabilities, based on one's specific needs.Curious humans who would like to see artificially intelligent systems that are shaping our world today.Anyone who got inspired by J.A.R.V.I.S in Iron Man, and aspires to replicate it.

What you will learn

- Deconstruct an Alexa Skill, and get clarity on what are intents, slots, and utterances.
- Build Alexa custom skills to augment Amazon Echo s strengths.
- Create voice interaction models for advanced voice users/conversational interfaces.
- Use Nodejs 6.10 and asynchronous requests with callback methods using Alexa SDK
- Use Google Maps Directions API for getting real-time traffic Information.
- Introduce errors, and test Alexa skills through 4 different modes including simulators and physical devices.
- Program in Amazon Lambda (serverless computing).Setup security through Amazon s IAM (identity and access management).Use Amazon S3 s storage API.
- Know the technologies that work behind a voice-activated interface
- Maintain data persistence within an active Alexa sessionMonitor performance and debug errors through Amazon CloudWatch.

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