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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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Sam Williams qualified with an aerospace engineering master's degree, then became a self-taught software developer while holding down his first job. While traveling, he started to write articles about the tech he was learning about and accrued an audience of readers on Medium and freeCodeCamp.Currently, Sam works as a lead chatbot developer for the SmartAgent team at MissionLabs, building custom systems for large retailers. His role ensures that he is working with the newest chatbot technologies and is constantly pushing their capabilities.
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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

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