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Creating an Alexa skill

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Creating an Alexa skill

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- [Instructor] In this chapter, we will set up a simple Alexa skill to see how we can easily implement voice bots now with the framework we created; let think we'll create for the Alexa task. At it's core, it will take in spoken words as audio stream and it will then convert this stream to text using speech-to-text, a discipline of natural language processing. Alexa's actually bought framework on its own and it has its own natural language processing engine. Regardless of that, we will be using our WIT backend for that. So we will be overriding what Alexa provides, because otherwise we would need to replicate everything we did in WIT now for Alexa as well. Amazon provides a portal for creating Alexa skills. This is not AWS, it's the retail business of Amazon and you can log into it with your regular Amazon account on developer.amazon.com. After logging in the first time, you will be asked for some developer related…

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