Alexa, teach me how to teach you

When first introduced, it was in the form of Amazon Echo.

Its skills are voice-driven and the interface between users and Alexa is called Skills.

It’s free, every week, in your inbox.

Creating your free Alexa Developer Account

Now we have tocreate an Alexa Developer Account.

Go to the Amazon developer portal and create an account if you dont have an account already.

While creating the new account, add the appropriate data in all required fields.

Just sign in to the Amazon developer portal if you have signed up already.

The skill name can be anything you want, keep it meaningful to what you are trying to achieve.

But dont confuse the name with the phrase you will use to invoke Alexa to perform the task.

The name is only for your reference.

They can be anything your program can perform, like find a book, or readLiveCode Stream.

Slots allow you to create lists of possible values, IDs and synonyms.

Often times theyre generated by code, but for now well set them up manually.

Alexa skill is now successfully created.

The testing verifies the either were achieving our desired results or not?

We can test the Alexa skill in many ways:

This is the fun part, so enjoy it.