Three Ways to Develop Voice Apps for Alexa
A Tutorial for Creating Alexa Skills
Voice applications are an exciting and fun way to create hands-free user interfaces. Voice assistants like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant offer a platform for you to build voice interactions that until recently existed only in the realm of science fiction.
Maybe you’re interested in developing voice applications, but don’t know where to start. If so, then you’ve come to the right place. In this video, I show three ways to initialize, develop, deploy, and test voice applications for Alexa (known as Alexa Skills), including:
- Using the browser-based Alexa Developer Console
- Working with the Alexa Skills Kit command-line interface (ASK CLI)
- Developing with the Alexa Skills Toolkit extension for Visual Studio Code
What’s great about these options is that you don’t even need to choose one over the other. You can use any of them or all of them on the same project. Start a new project in one, make changes and deploy in another, and then test your work in yet another. Here’s the tutorial video, which runs just over thirty minutes:
🔊 Check it out and let me know what you think! You can leave comments and questions by clicking the Comments icon.
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