The most natural UI. Building voice-enabled experiences with Amazon Alexa
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Claims that voice makes interfaces adapt to users and that Alexa tooling lets anyone ship a working voice app quickly Details include the Alexa Skills Kit, the web skill builder, built‑in slot types and the AWS Lambda backend with 1 million free Lambda invocations per month The talk cites 20,000 skills worldwide and 2,000 in Germany Shows concrete builds a haircut logger and a CodeTalks winner picker that queries Twilio via Lambda and actually picks a winner so the demos work end to end
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chapters (37)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:35Evolution of man
- 3:20Adding it to do
- 3:48Turning off the lights
- 4:49Extreme use cases
- 5:40Star Trek 4 example
- 6:25Why Alexa
- 8:44Alexa Skills Kit
- 12:42What happens behind the scenes
- 15:25Sending back JSON
- 16:20Voice User Interface
- 17:30Use Case
- 17:55Voice vs Touch
- 18:30Voice prototype
- 19:55Slots
- 23:50Eyes expect uniformity
- 24:20Have a natural response
- 25:00Other best practices
- 25:20Beta test functionality
- 27:20Building an Alexa skill
- 30:00Skill builder
- 32:55Get talk intent
- 34:20Get track intent
- 35:10Add slot type
- 35:40Save model
- 36:25Publish model
- 37:10Lambda
- 37:50Hosting your own skill
- 38:20Backend code
- 39:10Testing
- 40:20How it works
- 41:50Demo
- 42:30Winner
- 43:20Questions
- 44:00Language strings
- 45:30Voice recognition
- 49:20Standalone developers
