In putting together the demo for this blog, I found there is an issue when saving data to the Alexa Session data. I can’t reliably write to this collection in the request/response JSON. Without this ability, I’d have to write a session manager myself. Honestly, I don’t have time for that. I’ve reached out to…
Read More Building our Alexa Skill FunctionCurrently, there are two ways we can construct our skill. You can use the Amazon developer portal, or you can use the Alexa Skills Kit Command Line Interface (ASK CLI). Unfortunately, the CLI option is based in Node.js. I’m not a fan, thus the reason I started writing my skills in C# instead. Alexa Skills Kit…
Read More Building our Alexa SkillLet’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. …
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