Building for Alexa with Web API
summary
Demonstrates building an Alexa custom skill end-to-end using .NET and Web API hosted on Azure, including deployment, remote debugging and the portal configuration that wires intents, slots and utterances to a JSON response. Notes that there are ~12,000 skills and 69% with no or one-star reviews, the typical skill uses average skill has 300 utterances mapped to ~7–8 intents. Shows a working HelloWorld/NDC Sydney skill, an Lcars GitHub example, SSML for SSML expressive speech and SignalR for screen renderings; enforces <4.5s responses.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Start
- 0:11BUILDING FOR ALEXA WITH WEB API
- 3:55WHY SHOULD YOU BUILD FOR VOICE?
- 4:11Longer lasting products have tapped into some basic utility that, when applied to the technology, made life better in some way.
- 6:55THE COOPERATIVE PRINCIPAL
- 8:53CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURE
- 10:55DOCUMENTATION
- 15:02ALEXA CUSTOM SKILL COMPONENTS
- 19:53SKILL VISUAL COMPONENTS
- 23:07CUSTOM SLOTS & BUILT-IN INTENTS
- 31:49PORTAL TOUR
- 43:24WHAT ABOUT EXPRESSION?
- 44:41EXPRESSIVE CODE EXAMPLE
- 48:01Slides
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