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 is 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 apps
- Provides an intuitive way of specifying the conversational interface
- Automatically and dynamically adjusts conversational responses
- Easy to build, test and publish app
In this course, 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
