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Let’s start designing our Receptionist skill.  The purpose of this skill will be to help visitors who come in for meetings alert the employee they’re meeting that they’ve arrived.  We want to make this interaction as natural as possible, so we don’t have to have someone walk a new visitor through the process each time. …

With an understanding of the Alexa ecosystem and some of the terminology I’ll be using, let’s look under the hood a bit today.  All Alexa devices depend on the cloud to do the heavy lifting.  In the most simplified case, this is what’s under the hood of a simple Alexa skill. You speak to your…

n my last article, I introduced the hardware, the differences between the Alexa Voice Service (speech recognition and language understanding) and the Alexa Skills Kit (new and interesting abilities you can create for the Alexa ecosystem).  I also covered four current skills categories. Today let’s cover some key terms you’ll want to understand before beginning your…