Step by Step Alexa Skill Development
Learn to customize Alexa by building custom Alexa Skills.
October 2020 Update
- Added a Bill Of Materials PDF and an Update Video
Hello learners, this is a beginner level course on Alexa Skills Development, step by step following the course you will be all set to develop your own Alexa Skills and customize Alexa in your own way.
The course takes off with the devices that are equipped with Alexa and also the instructions for setting up those devices. Next to that, the famous Raspberry Pi device is equipped with Alexa by bringing the Alexa Voice Service into it. Then the course moves on to building custom skills, a very basic custom skill development will be done in the usual long way to let you know the complete processing required to develop one, later the same basic skill will be again implemented using the Alexa Skills Kit Skill Development Kit. Then some more custom skills will be developed exploring AWS DynamoDB and AWS S3 using the same SDK.
The course gives clear instructions on how to install required software to control the Raspberry Pi devices using Alexa Skills. Next to that, Alexa Skills to control LED, Servomotor, Webcam and temperature sensor connected with Raspberry Pi will be developed. The course also gives detailed explanation of all the coding involved in developing Alexa Skills through simple coding snippets.
The course has few projects that can help you to practice and master the concepts by yourself. While doing your projects and going through the course, you can feel free to ask your doubts. You will get a response within one working day. Thank you and have a nice time learning.
"Excellent course to get started with building & creating Alexa skills. The course is very clear & concise. Everything is explained step by step by the trainer. Enjoyed the various exercises and projects. I like they respond to your questions in a timely and efficient manner. Definatlry reccomned this course to get started with Alexa"
- Neil Patel
"This course is amazing, contains in depth study of most of the commands of Alexa and the course instructors and the makerdemy group have worked really hard to prepare and setup this wonderful course which gives us a huge amount of knowledge on how to enhance our skill set. I would recommend this course to everyone interested"
- Muhammad Ramis
"Excellent Course. Filled with details and all the info one needs!"
- William D'Silva
"Great course, for developers and business analysts.Not 5 star due to the pronunciation skill of the lecturer. (I suggest to see the course at 1.25 velocity.)I really recommend this course!"
- Leonardo Mattioli
Your Instructor
Venkatesh Varadachari is the founder of MAKERDEMY, a pioneer company in the field of maker education.
MAKERDEMY is a pioneer in teaching technology related maker courses online.
Venkatesh has an MBA from the prestigious Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.
He also has a degree in Electrical Engineering from Madras University and a Masters in Financial Engineering from National University of Singapore.
Course Curriculum
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StartDescription (0:34)
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StartUpdate: Alexa AVS-SDK Installation Guide
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StartAmazon developer portal (2:35)
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PreviewAmazon Alexa Equipped Devices (9:18)
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StartAlexa on Raspberry pi 3 : Introduction and Hardware Requirements (13:24)
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StartAlexa on Raspberry pi 3 : Installation (6:02)
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StartAlexa on Raspberry pi 3 : Execution (4:35)
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StartDescription (0:38)
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StartUpdate: Welcome Skill - Author from Scratch using ASK-SDK v2 for Node.js
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StartAdding the Skill in Alexa Skills Kit. (6:44)
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StartAWS Lambda function (7:39)
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StartLambda Function Coding : Importance of Use Strict (6:03)
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StartLambda Function Coding : JSON request and Functions (9:54)
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StartLambda Function Coding: Handling Launch Request (13:15)
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StartLambda Function Coding: Handing Intent and Session Ended Request (6:01)