Creating Your First Alexa Skill

This chapter will introduce you to the process required to build Alexa Skills, and together we will create our first Alexa Skill. We'll learn how to build and test our skill to make sure that everything is working.

We'll then create a second Alexa Skill that has a more realistic conversation with the user. This skill will go through a series of questions to gather a set of information, which we'll use to decide which car is best suited to the user. This will also cover accessing data from remote storage.

The last thing we will cover in this chapter is deploying your skill, allowing you to publish your skills for the world to use.

This chapter will cover the following:

• Creating our first Alexa Skill
• Using Alexa SDK in a Lambda to handle the requests from Alexa
• Testing your Lambda
• Creating a more complex Alexa Skill that uses data stored on S3
• Deploying your Alexa Skill