Building Apps Using Amazon's Alexa and Lex

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 time
Powered by a deep learning based engine that parses user voice and resolves the contents of user utterances to API calls and parameter values
No deep learning or natural language processing expertise is needed to build even complex voice and chat apps
Provides an intuitive way of specifying the conversational interface
Automatically and dynamically adjusts conversational responses
Easy 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 interaction
How Alexa, Lex, Echo and the other bits of the Amazon ecosystem come together
Interaction models: Utterances, intents, slots, prompts and their resolution into API calls
Fulfilment 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 calls
Fulfilment models: Using AWS Lambdas to fulfil user intents, and how AWS lambdas provide smooth, no-ops, auto-scaling code endpoints
Third-party integration: How a chatbot can be added to your Slack workspace
Who this course is for:
Echo or FireTV developers looking to build Alexa Skills
Website and mobile app developers looking to add voice apps