This is an Alexa Skills training video tutorial from Alexa Developers. Here is the YouTube video description: In this video we’ll introduce slots to capture variable data spoken by the user and we’ll show how to create validation rules for them. We’ll also show you how to offload the slot value capture mechanics to Alexa …
This is an Alexa Skills training video tutorial from Alexa Developers. Here is the YouTube video description: In this video we’ll continue our course and explain a functionality that is used very frequently by Alexa skill developers: accessing external APIs. Alexa skills are not closed environments hence you can connect to external services from the …
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This is an Alexa Skills training video tutorial from Alexa Developers. Here is the YouTube video description: In this video we’ll be covering the Reminders API. This API allows you to set reminders in your skill so Alexa will say a message out loud at the time that you decide based on user input. In …
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This is an Alexa Skills training video tutorial from Alexa Developers. Here is the YouTube video description: In this video we’re going to continue on our Alexa skill building journey and focus on internationalization (i18n). We’ll depart from a simple hello world skill in English and add support for more than one language while keeping …
This is an Alexa Skills training video tutorial from Alexa Developers. Here is the YouTube video description: In this video we’re going to move away from the web browser and go towards the command line. If you’re an advanced developer used to the command line you can leverage our ASK CLI (Command Line Interface) which …
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This is an Alexa Skills training video tutorial from Alexa Developers. Here is the YouTube video description: In this video we’ll cover the very basics of Alexa Skill building. From fundamentals and terminology to a functional hello world skill you’ll get everything you need to get started in your skill building journey! Topics Covered: 1. …
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This is an Alexa Skills training video tutorial from Alexa Developers. Here is the YouTube video description: In this video we’ll look at accessing Alexa Skill Kit’s APIs. These are specific public APIs available to developers to access user and device information to tailor the skill experience to them. These APIs require user consent when …
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This is an Alexa Skills training video tutorial from Alexa Developers. Here is the YouTube video description: In this video we’ll take a look at the final step before our Alexa skill is available to everyone in the world and that is: publishing. We’ve been through coding and testing so now we’ll show you all …
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This is an Alexa Skills training video tutorial from Alexa Developers. Here is the YouTube video description: We continue our skill building journey with persistence, a way to keep user information across sessions. We’ll show you short term and long term persistence which will allow you skill to remember things so when the users interact …
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This is an Alexa Skills training video tutorial from Alexa Developers. Here is the YouTube video description: Traditionally voice enabled devices did not include a screen but this has changed over the last few years. We have the Echo Show, the Fire TV and a whole lot more of device that also provide visuals. As …
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