Building Apps for Voice Assistants

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Shows how to build a Yandex Alice skill (a Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin tour) implemented on Yandex Functions (Node 14) connected to Dialogs using intents, slots and an entity "place" with values (tower, cathedral). Demonstrates adding images, galleries, button payloads, sound effects and TTS markup, using a session-state repeat button to replay the last reply, handling ping/pong and 3s response limits, and covers testing, publishing and fallback logging.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 16:26First skill creation
3. 36:29Natural language processing
4. 1:04:37Entities and intents
5. 1:38:33Session state storage
6. 2:06:53Voice interaction nuances
7. 2:23:44Skill extension and optimization
8. 2:33:10Conclusion

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