Quickly Build an Alexa Skill Using ASK CLI
Create, manage, test, and publish your Alexa skill from the command line.
Introduction
One of Amazon Alexa’s greatest feature is the ability to add Skills to enhance the user experience according to a specific need.
Skills are applications that interact with Alexa’s core APIs that handles speech recognition, text-to-speech encoding and natural language processing. Alexa has a number of built-in ready skills, but you can also create new custom skills.
You can build a new Skill using the Amazon Developer Console. The console is a great tool with many pros, but over time, I felt that the command-line tool provides you with a better programming experience when developing your application. You can easily simulate, test, deploy, and automate integrating to your CI/CD deployment process.
In this post, I will walk through what I consider the easiest and most efficient way of building and maintaining an Alexa Skill using the ASK-CLI.
How an Alexa Skill Works
The Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) provides self-service APIs and tools that you can use to build Alexa skills.
