Alexa Skill build: What types of Skills are there?
"Alexa" is the Name of the digital assistant, voice Amazon. Businesses and individuals can integrate about the Alexa Voice Service (AVS) in certain Hardware.
- Without extensions, you can Smart with Alexa some knowledge to answer questions-Home-appliances buy-tax, or products from Amazon.
- To Alexa to teach other skills, you can create as a developer with the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) your own Apps for Alexa.
- Here, there is a Smart Home Skills for the control of networked devices, such as Flash Briefing Skills as an additional News source for the daily summary ("Flash letter"), or Custom Interaction Model Skills for all other interactions with Alexa.
- So you can create a Skill, you need an Amazon Developer Account. In the Developer Portal, you can create new Skills and configure.
- The actual logic of Skills is as a web service via HTTPS embed. These web services Amazon referred to as the skill services. Amazon recommends this to his own service "AWS Lambda" as a Backend.
Alexa: What types of Skills are there?
Amazon Echo: What you need to consider when programming Skills?
A Skill you can easily create the "Alexa Skills Kit", which you can find in the Developer console. Before you start with the programming Skills, you should ask yourself some questions first:
- First of all, the question of how the user should invoke the Skill and how the users of the individual functions can be activated arises. Set, therefore, first of all, key terms.
- In addition, it is important to know how the set needs to be, and whether there are regional differences.
- The more flexible the request can be made, the better the user experience. A Skill should, for example, respond to the word "help" and the user will explain how you can interact with it.
Skill for Alexa program
First, you need to now have an Account for the Developer console, and AWS to create.
- First, click in the Developer console on the tab "Alexa" and click on "Alexa Skills Kit", "Get Started".
- Then click on "Add a New Skill".
- Now you can start to configure your Skill and set up. So you need to set up a HTTPS-Server, you can use AWS.
- The actual Skill you are programming in the Interaction Mode. It is to be programmed in Java-Script. For help, refer to the Amazon-Homepage.
Skill for Alexa program
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