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
Joshua: Shall we play a game? : War Games, 1983
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
- I’m so, hip and cool. Amazon November 2014
•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
You
Echo
AVS
re:Invent 2015 Alexa Voice Service Under the Hood
Sentinel Commander
•Design/Development/Deployment Custom Skill