Voice assistants

Alexa registration

• [alexa.amazon.com]
• [echosim.io] and select EN-GB
• https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-skills-kit/getting-started-guide

Glosary

• Custom skill
• Intent (actions schema)
• Slots
• Utterances
• Function or web service
• Configuration
• Card

Permission configuration

• Download and install AWS Cli
• Create a IAM user for serverless and download AK/SC
  • AWSLambdaFullAccess
  • IAMFullAccess
  • AmazonS3FullAccess
  • AmazonAPIGatewayAdministrator
  • CloudformationFullAccess
• Set up credentials: aws configure

Skill development

• Download and install Serverless

  • Install NodeJs
  • Run npm install -g serverless
  • Check it with sls --version

• Create a new project with serverless create --template aws-nodejs --path motivator

• Configure the serverless.yml file

service: motivator

provider:
  name: aws
  runtime: nodejs4.3
  region: eu-west-1

functions:
  motivator:
    handler: handler.motivator
    events:
      - alexaSkill

• Deploy with sls deploy

Configure skill

• Skills Kit
• Press Add a New Skill
• Skill information
  • English UK as language
  • Motivator as name
  • "Alexa, ask motivator" as invocation
• Interaction model
  • Be sure to us UK English
  • Set intent

		{
		  "intents": [
			{
			  "intent": "motivator",
			  "slots": [
				{
				  "name": "target",
				  "type": "CIBERADO_NAMES"
				}
			  ]
			}
		  ]
		}

* Press *Add Slot Type*
* Set "CIBERADO_NAMES" as slot name and "Emma, Pau, Jesus, Javi, Me, Myself" as values (one on each line)
* Add next utterances:

motivator energize myself
motivator energize me
motivator give me energy
motivator motivate me
motivator motivate {target}

• Endpoint
  • Set Lambda to what sls info --verbose reflects (without version number)
• Complete the rest of the configuration