Working with Amazon Echo

In Chapter 5, Deploying the Fortune Cookie App to the Google Home, you learned about Google Home devices, which listen for the wake words OK Google and respond to user requests. Similarly, Amazon Echo devices listen to the wake word Alexa and respond to user requests, providing relevant answers. Amazon Echo and Google Home compete in the voice-controlled device space and both provide marketplaces for developers to submit voice user interface applications that handle specific tasks. For Google Home, you learned to build the FAQ chatbot and the Fortune Cookie. In this chapter, you will build a cooking application that helps the user learn how to cook. The concepts you will learn range from building Alexa skills using the ASK for the Amazon Echo analogues to building intents using Dialogflow for Google Home. If you are thinking of monetizing your voice user...