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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788993487

Length 266 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Alexa Lex

Concepts

Chatbots

Author (1):

Sam Williams

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

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

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Appendix A

1. Appendix B

Technical requirements

In this chapter, we will be creating a Lambda function for our skill, and we will deploy it using the local development setup that we discussed in Chapter 2, Getting Started with AWS and Amazon CLI.

We'll be using the Open Weather Map API to get weather data based on the user requests. We will go through the process of creating an account and getting an API key.

We'll use Postman to test the requests that we are going to make to the Open Weather Map API. It is a cross-platform app that can be installed at getpostman.com.

All of the code required for this chapter can be found at http://bit.ly/chatbot-ch4.

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Authors (1)

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Williams

Cyndi Williams has worked alongside Bret Williamsher husband of 35 yearsbuilding and managing e-commerce solutions, including their own successful online business, which they established in 2005, and later sold in 2009. As President of novusweb, llc, which is based in Austin, Texas, Cyndi focuses on managing online operations for select clients. Cyndi is an expert in operating Magento-based stores, as well as fulfillment, advertising, and social media management.

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