Alexa Dev Day (Portland, Dec. 19, 2017)

• http://alexadevday.com

• https://alexa.design, i.e. https://developer.amazon.com/alexa

• https://github.com/alexa/skill-sample-nodejs-city-guide/blob/master/instructions

• https://alexa.design/slides, i.e. https://www.slideshare.net/secret/oTr0Uv51cOus4m

Journal

• Voice User Interface (VUI)

• Amazon Resource Name (ARN) for my test lamda function 'next-non-precipitating-time' is 'arn:aws:lambda:us-east-1:902434419857:function:next-non-precipitating-time'.

Intro

• Alexa skill example: local guide

Alexa Skill Kit new features

• Echo Show

• notifications

• multi-turn dialogue

• synonyms

• gadget API

• "slot elicitation"

• Alexa for Business

• Voice ID

• https://developer.amazon.com/alexa-skills-kit/rewards

• http://alexa.design/earn

• http://alexa.design/monetization

• How to earn?

  • subscription
  • purchase
  • Amazon Pay

• Alexa Skills Kit Command Line Interface (ASK CLI)

Labs: Calling Services

• Lab: Recipe

• detailed instruction

Alexa and IoT

• https://alexa.design/labs-iot

Software and computer code

• https://github.com/alexa

  • https://github.com/alexa/alexa-skills-kit-sdk-for-nodejs

• https://skillinator.io

  • A code generation tool for transforming a interaction model specified in JSON to template code for Amazon Lambda in JavaScript.

• State path game: https://github.com/alexa/alexa-cookbook/tree/master/games/State_Path

Wikipedia

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Web_Services
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWS_Lambda

Amazon Alexa documentation

• https://developer.amazon.com/alexa

• "speechcon"

  • https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/post/036350a8-8295-4f11-80c6-397873e2847f/new-alexa-skills-kit-ask-feature-ssml-speechcons-in-alexa-skills
  • https://www.wordnik.com/words/speechcon

• "Account linking": Link an Alexa User with a User in Your System

• Alexa Cookbook

  • https://github.com/alexa/alexa-cookbook/blob/master/aws/lambda-role.md