Description
Alexa, Siri, Cortana and Google Now - voice-activated personal assistants are one of the hottest trends in technology these days. They are a great way to convey complex information to your customers in a free-flowing, conversational way. Alexa is a great way to build them - an AWS service for building conversational interfaces for Echo, FireTV and a host of Alexa-aware devices. Alexa and Lex are state-of-the-art, with support for new devices being added all the timePowered by a deep learning based engine that parses user voice and resolves the contents of user utterances to API calls and parameter valuesNo deep learning or natural language processing expertise is needed to build even complex voice and chat appsProvides an intuitive way of specifying the conversational interfaceAutomatically and dynamically adjusts conversational responsesEasy to build, test and publish app In the sections on Alexa we will cover: The big picture - voice and text interfaces and current trends in human-computer interactionHow Alexa, Lex, Echo and the other bits of the Amazon ecosystem come togetherInteraction models: Utterances, intents, slots, prompts and their resolution into API callsFulfilment models: Using AWS Lambdas to fulfil user intents, and how AWS lambdas provide smooth, no-ops, auto-scaling code endpoints In the sections on Lex we will cover: Interaction models: Utterances, intents, slots, prompts and their resolution into API callsFulfilment models: Using AWS Lambdas to fulfil user intents, and how AWS lambdas provide smooth, no-ops, auto-scaling code endpointsThird-party integration: How a chatbot can be added to your Slack workspace
