AVS: Alexa Voice Service and the muscle behind her voice

Overview

This  presentation takes a quick look at the Alexa Voice Service and examines its features in Alexa Skill Development.  

How it all works

Overview of Design

Core/Magic Dice

Sentinel Commander

Intro to AVS

You Know, I wonder If ...

Sessions

Session 1

• What is an AVS?
• Who is Alexa and why does she have an echo
• Blah, Blah, Blah to Intent
• Echo Demo (Core Features)
• Custom Demo (Magic Dice)

Joshua: Shall we play a game? : War Games, 1983

Intro to AVS: Natural Language Processing  (NLP)

The interactions between Humans and computers through (Natural) Languages [spoken/textual]. This is a subset of the larger area of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Computation Linguistics (stats and rules modeling of a natural language).

- HAL , 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968

- Nest, Roland’s Home Yesterday

Intro to AVS: Amazon

- I’m so, hip and cool.  Amazon November  2014

Who is Alexa and why does she have an echo.

•Alexa - The voice. Amazon's Branded Voice of NLP Service.

•AVS - Alexa Voice Service (AVS).  NLP Platform used by Amazon for Alexa.

•Echo- Physical client input/output for Alexa.

•Digital Assistant from Amazon.

 - You sent me. Terminator 2: Judgement Day, 1991

Echo Alexa interaction model

You

Echo

AVS

Doppler effect

Mic, Speaker & a Wake Engine

re:Invent  2015 Alexa Voice Service Under the Hood

"Blah, Blah, Blah" to Intent

DEMO

Session 2 

You know, I wonder If ...

Sentinel Commander

•Design/Development/Deployment Custom Skill

Q and A

Any Questions?