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Building Alexa Skills - Floor28
The document provides an overview of building Alexa skills using AWS, outlining key features and services like AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon S3 that facilitate serverless computing and scalable application development. It details the growth of Alexa, including increased customer adoption and accuracy improvements in speech recognition. Additionally, resources for developers, promotional credits, and workshops are highlighted to encourage skill creation and community engagement.
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- 1. Š 2018, AmazonWeb Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. SSID: Guest Password: Cube@11999 Building Alexa Skills with AWS Boaz Ziniman Technical Evangelist, Amazon Web Service @ziniman boaz.ziniman.aws
- 2. Š 2018, AmazonWeb Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.Š 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. Floor28 Agenda GameDay 24 Oct Enterprise IT Day 23 Oct Builders Day AppSync, Alexa & IoT 22 Oct Big Data Day 14 Oct ML & DL Day 15 Oct DevOps Day 16 Oct DevOps Day 17 Oct Technical Sessions Serverless Data Workshop Big Data UG Meetup Technical Sessions SageMaker Workshop ML&DL Meetup Technical Sessions K8s Workshop DevOps Meetup Technical Sessions Spot Workshop Databases Day 18 Oct Technical Sessions Serverless Workshop Virtual assistants UG Meetup Technical Sessions PyTorch Meetup Technical Sessions CDK Workshop AWS IL UG Meetup Builders Day Serverless backend 21 Oct Technical Sessions
- 3. Š 2018, AmazonWeb Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.Š 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
- 4. Š 2018, AmazonWeb Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.Š 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. Alexa, add âbook flightâ to my Todo list1Locate Phone1 Unlock Phone2 Locate and open appropriate app3 Find right To-do list, tap âAdd Todoâ4 Type name of task, tap âDoneâ5 Exit app / close phone6 Put away phone7 The âmodernâ way Easier, faster & more natural way ADDING A TO DO
- 5. Š 2018, AmazonWeb Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.Š 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. Alexa, turn off the bedroom light1 Locate Phone1 Unlock Phone2 Locate and open appropriate app3 Navigate to appropriate bulb/room4 Tap âturn off lightâ5 Exit app / close phone6 Put away phone7 The âmodernâ way Easier, faster & more natural way Get up and walk to lights1 Turn light switch(es) to âOffâ2 The old way TURNING OFF THE LIGHTS
- 6. Š 2018, AmazonWeb Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.Š 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. Alexa, ask Ocado to add tuna to my trolley.
- 7. Š 2018, AmazonWeb Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.Š 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. Active Customers Up Nearly 5X Tens of Millions of Alexa-Enabled Devices Alexa is growing fast
- 8. Š 2018, AmazonWeb Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.Š 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 HUMAN ACCURACY 50% 55% 60% 62% 70% 95% ASR accuracy has dramatically increased in the last 4-5 years. This inflection point has created sustained momentum in consumer adoption of voice technology Source: MindMeld ASR Accuracy
- 9. Š 2018, AmazonWeb Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.Š 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. Comprised of two important frameworks that enable brands to connect to customers ALEXA VOICE SERVICE Unparalleled Distribution: AVS allows your content to be everywhere Lives In The Cloud Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) Natural Language Understanding (NLU) Always Learning ALEXA SKILLS KIT Create Great Content: ASK is how you connect to your consumer Alexaâs Framework
- 10. Š 2018, AmazonWeb Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.Š 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
- 11. Š 2018, AmazonWeb Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.Š 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. Alexa Identifies Skill & Recognizes Intent Through ASR & NLU Alexa Converts Text-to-Speech (TTS) & Renders Graphical Component You Pass Back a Textual or Audio Response You Pass Back a Graphical Response User Makes a Request Respond to Intent through Text & Visual Your Service processes Request Alexa sends Customer Intent to Your Service Audio Stream is sent up to Alexa How The Alexa Skills Kit Works
- 12. Š 2018, AmazonWeb Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.Š 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. Alexa, Speaking with Alexa wake word
- 13. Š 2018, AmazonWeb Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.Š 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. Start Launch Begin Resume Ask Tell Alexa, open restaurant finder wake word Invocation namelaunch Speaking with Alexa
- 14. Š 2018, AmazonWeb Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.Š 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. Alexa, ask restaurant finder for breakfast wake word Invocation namelaunch utterance for a good breakfast place to find places to eat in the morning a spot that serves the most important meal of the day Speaking with Alexa
- 15. Š 2018, AmazonWeb Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.Š 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. Alexa, open restaurant finder Recommend a restaurant within four miles slot utterance RecommendationIntent {distance: â4â} slot value intent Speaking with Alexa
- 16. Š 2018, AmazonWeb Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.Š 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. Tell me about Italian food within four miles slot RecommendationIntent {distance: â4â} slot value intent slot {cuisine: âitalian foodâ} Speaking with Alexa
- 17. Š 2018, AmazonWeb Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.Š 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. Your Service Text to Speech Machine Learning Natural Language Understanding Speech Recognition Response Visual Audio Intents Alexa skills kit: Request and Response
- 18. Š 2018, AmazonWeb Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.Š 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. Your Service Text to Speech SSML, streaming audio Machine Learning Natural Language Understanding Speech Recognition Response Visual Audio Intents Alexa skills kit: Outputs
- 19. Š 2018, AmazonWeb Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.Š 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. {size} tiny small medium large I want a thatâs energy, formy,{pet} dog {energy} low med high {temperament} family guard Slots
- 20. Š 2018, AmazonWeb Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.Š 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. âAlexa, start outdoor guruâ âWelcome toâŚâ âAlexa, ask outdoor guru about kayaking â âWhere to?â âPortlandâ âPortland? âYesâ âWhen .. leave?â âNext Fridayâ âUntil when?â âThe following Tuesdayâ âWhat will you like to do?â ââIâll be golfingâ âDid I get all this right?â âyesâ âI have two ideas for youâŚâ Slot confirmation Intent confirmation Slot elicitation Multi-Turn Dialogs
- 21. Š 2018, AmazonWeb Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.Š 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. LETâS BUILD YOUR SKILL
- 22. Š 2018, AmazonWeb Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.Š 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. Blueprints â build a skill without coding!
- 23. Š 2018, AmazonWeb Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.Š 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. Voice User Interface Programming Logic +
- 24. Š 2018, AmazonWeb Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.Š 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. Voice User Interface Programming Logic + developer.amazon.com aws.amazon.com
- 25. Š 2018, AmazonWeb Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.Š 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. Architecture Diagram
- 26. Š 2018, AmazonWeb Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.Š 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. What does Serverless mean? No servers to provision or manage Scale with your usage Built in availability and fault-tolerance Never pay for idle/unused capacity
- 27. Š 2018, AmazonWeb Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.Š 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. AWS Lambda: Serverless computing ⢠Run code without servers. Pay only for the compute time you consume. ⢠Triggered by events or called from APIs: ⢠PUT to an Amazon S3 bucket ⢠Updates to Amazon DynamoDB table ⢠Call to an Amazon API Gateway endpoint ⢠Mobile app backend call ⢠And many more⌠⢠Makes it easy to: ⢠Perform real-time data processing ⢠Build scalable backend services ⢠Glue and choreograph systems
- 28. Š 2018, AmazonWeb Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.Š 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. Amazon DynamoDB ⢠Fast and flexible NoSQL database service for any scale Dead simple ⢠GetItem(primaryKey) ⢠PutItem(item) Robust depth ⢠Fine-grained access control ⢠Streams ⢠Triggers ⢠Cross-region replication ⢠Global Tables (NEW) ⢠TTL (NEW) ⢠Auto Scaling (NEW) ⢠Strong consistency option ⢠Atomic counters
- 29. Š 2018, AmazonWeb Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.Š 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) ⢠Durable, massively scalable object storage ⢠Designed for 99.999999999% durability and 99.99% availability ⢠Stores trillions of objects and regularly handles millions of requests per second ⢠Effectively infinite storage without provisioning capacity
- 30. Š 2018, AmazonWeb Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.Š 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. Tying it all together Your Skill Lambda Function (request handler) S3 Bucket (asset storage) DynamoDB Table (state storage) Polly (text to speech) SES Emails (map, journal info)
- 31. Š 2018, AmazonWeb Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.Š 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. Demo Alexa Enabled Device AWS Lambda Amazon DynamoDB IAM Alexa, ask Boaz when is the next session? Trigger Lambda Function Load Permissions Query DB
- 32. Š 2018, AmazonWeb Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.Š 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. Demo Alexa Enabled Device AWS Lambda Amazon DynamoDB IAM Next session for Boaz Ziniman is: Building Alexa Skills with AWS - AWS Israel Floor28 on October 22 at 11:30 in Tel Aviv Format and send response
- 33. Š 2018, AmazonWeb Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. How it works?
- 34. Š 2018, AmazonWeb Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.Š 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. Additional Services SQS IoT Rekognition CloudWatch Kinesis Interact with a âthingâ Delayed processing Image analysis Transform requests/responses API Gateway Lambda S3 Athena QuickSight + + + + + = Analyze Skill Logs Polly Text to speech
- 35. Š 2018, AmazonWeb Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.Š 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. Apply Now alexa.design/AWScredits A W S P R O M O T I O N A L C R E D I T S ⢠$100 in credits when you publish your first skill ⢠Additional $100/month if your skill incurs AWS usage charges
- 36. Š 2018, AmazonWeb Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.Š 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. alexa.design/cookbook alexa.design/labs-local github.com/alexa Main Alexa Repository Lots of sample code! Great first tutorial to get familiar with Alexa alexa.design/awspromo Publish a skill, get AWS credits! alexa.design/devrewards Publish a *great* skill, earn money! alexa.design/nodesdk Main repo for the ASK NodeJS SDK Resources
- 37. Š 2018, AmazonWeb Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. Thank You! Boaz Ziniman Technical Evangelist, Amazon Web Service Give me feedback â Talk to my Bot m.me/boaz.ziniman.aws @ziniman boaz.ziniman.aws
- 38. Š 2018, AmazonWeb Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. SSID: Guest Password: Cube@11999 GAME DAY PUT YOUR SKILLS TO THE TEST OCT 24 Register now: bit.ly/Floor28GameDay