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Alexa, tell me how to build a skill
- EADGBE 9y agoNice rundown. Eyeroll at the bitcoin subject but, hey, what should I expect? The biggest thing I've learned about Alexa Skills developing them is that people will say things differently (shocker!). So, take time to think through your intentions and offer many, many, many different implementations of the same phrase (utterances). This prevents people from getting confused, or labeling your skill at buggy; when in reality it just wasn't expecting what they'd say.
- nailer 9y agoEven basic stuff like alarms have surprising edge caes: if I tell Siri 'Set alarm 4:15PM' it sets an alarm for 3PM.
- slobodan_ 9y agoYou are right. Skill is all about an interaction design, and the other problem with Alexa is that you can't catch phrases that Alexa can't parse to intents. For Bitcoin, I am not into crypto currency, but that skill was done on live coding session, so I needed something that people like and that I can integrate really fast.
- EADGBE 9y agoJust razing you a bit. Nice tutorial. Node.js/Lambda was my entrance into Alexa Skills. Which took me down a serverless rabbit hole.