Hands-on Building Alexa Skills

• The fundamentals that empower users and customers to converse effectively with their devices
• Add metadata that your skill will use in the Alexa app to reach its desired audience
• Create opening invocations that make sense and engage your audiences
• Learn proper conversation flow, prompts, and stop messages
• Prioritize your conversation paths for top-notch user experience and customer journey
• Write proper synonyms to keep the user engaged and conversation going
• How to properly test your skills and keep users engaged
• Learn the Alexa Skill Testing, Submission and Approval/Publishing Process

You will learn Voice User Interface Design principles, and how to build custom voice commands for Alexa devices using the Alexa Skills Kit, Voiceflow, and Node.js. You will explore the Alexa ecosystem and the components that make up custom Alexa skills; learn how to configure the Amazon Developer Portal, and create, code, and deploy it using Voiceflow, Node.js, Lambda functions, and Amazon Web Services. You will discover how to test your skills in the browser and on an actual Alexa device and share them with other Alexa users. You will learn to develop, test, validate, and troubleshooting skills, manage the publishing process, and work with the Alexa developer console.

By the end of this course, you will be able to create voice UIs, configure Alexa skill functionality, and test/expand your skills.

This course is suitable for developers who want to learn how to master Alexa Skills and use Alexa to build amazing voice UI applications, with real-world commercial benefit. Basic JavaScript and Node.js experience would be beneficial but not necessary.

• Engage and captivate your target audience via a strong opening invocation series
• Build a conversation that works for your business growth goals and your stakeholders’ demands
• Navigate the Alexa Skills Testing and Submission/Approval Process and build Voice UIs