Creating an Alexa Skill with NodeJS
Overview
Language Definitions
Programming –> Alexa
Alexa = Computer
Skill = App
Intent = Function
Utterance = call a function
slot = variable
Tutorial
We are going to use Amazon’s tutorial on Building a How-To Skill
Tutorial page for Amazon Alexa Skills Kit sample Skills
Technical Overview
- Alexa Skills Kit Developer Console: Overview
- Amazon Alexa Skills Kit - Learn
- Alexa Gaming Skills site
Consider
- Brainstorm your Alexa how-to skill
- Concept
- What are you teaching?
- What questions will people have? List all of these questions and their answers
- Does voice assistance suit this?
- Set-up your development environment
- Sign up for all needed accounts
- Amazon AWS Lambda to host your code/functions
- Alexa console to build your Voice User Interface
- Begin building your Skill