AI is Artificial intelligence, the study of intelligent agents, and takes actions. Skills are an ability to perform an operation on devices enabled with Amazon Alexa like Echo.

Throughout this series, I am going to teach you how to create your own custom Alexa skills using Alexa skill console, Alexa SDK, and use AWS Lambda function for this.

This course includes 5 Core components for creating your own custom Skills.

• Alexa is a virtual assistant by Amazon. It contains some skills using which users can do various things such as to ask for service etc
• Alexa skills Kit provides a user interface for the build, measure, and test skill which is known as skills kit
• AWS Lambda function is the backbone of your skill. Alexa skills will send a request to our lambda function, and it will perform the original operation
• Alexa Skills SDK used to create handlers that will generate a response to our skill in the form of JSON. So we just need to call those functions only. We will use both Alexa SDK and Alexa core SDK
• ASK CLI is a command-line tool that allows us to create skill as well as deploy, clone too

What will you learn in this course?

• Introduction to AI, bots, and Alexa
• Understood the concept of intent, utterance as well as slots
• The JSON format for both request and response
• Test and deploy, and publish your custom skill to skill store, as well as test it on your own Echo device
• Use Alexa SDK version-1 for generating a response
• Use directives for generating a more rich response with audio, video, hint, elicit and Confirm directive
• Perform some advance operations such as account linking, working with DynamoDB, state management
• Along with those, you will learn how to use skilling or, CloudWatch
• We will also create flash briefing skills and see Alexa blueprints  

Who should take this course?

• This is for newbies who want to create Alexa skills
• Developer who know basic JavaScript and want to create skills
• A person who want to create custom skills for Amazon Echo device
• Developer who want to create flash briefing skill