Talking to Alexa

A presentation at Digital Lincoln in September 2018 in Lincoln, UK by Steven Pears

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Talking to Alexa Steven Pears

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Who is Alexa? Amazon’s Digital Assistant

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Who is Alexa?

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Who is Alexa?

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Who am I?

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Who am I? Work for .NET Developer Introvert

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Who am I? Conversations Conversations are a lot of effort With text they’re open to misinterpretation Help your users with voice

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Who Clientam Brief I? Meetup Skill Let the user know about upcoming events New Market – iterate

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Who IT1: Flash am I?Briefing Not interactive RSS Content Text or Audio

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Who IT2: Real am I? Conversation

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Who IT2: Custom am I? Skill

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Who tortu.io am I?

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Who IT2: Basic am I?Structure

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developer.amazon.com Who am I?

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Who IT2: Example am I? Request

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Who IT2: Magic am I? at the start

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Who IT2: Business am I? Logic AWS Lambda? Web API? Your choice!

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Who IT2: Launch am I? Code

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Who IT2: Response am I?

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Who IT2: Magic am I? at the end

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Who IT3: Next am I? Meetup

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developer.amazon.com Who am I?

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Who IT3: Intent am I?Request

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Who IT3: Intent am I?Handler

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Who IT3: Intent am I?Response ???

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Who IT3: Stretch am I? Goal Surprise! Management had an idea

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Who Card am I? Image Title Content

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Who Card am I? Image Title Content

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Who Card am I?

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Who Card Types am I? Standard Simple Account Linking Permission Request

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Who Otheram enhancements I? Session management In-Skill Purchases Gadgets!

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Who Try it am I? Don’t need a device AWS Free Tier Great docs https://developer.amazon.com

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Thank am You!I? Who Any Questions?