Developing Amazon Alexa Skills with the Go Programming Language

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Learn how to develop AWS Lambda functions using the Go programming language that can be used with Alexa virtual assistants.

Developing Amazon Alexa Skills
with the Go Programming
Language
Nic Raboy
Tracy Developer Meetup Organizer

The Agenda
• Getting Familiar with AWS Lambda
• Getting Familiar with the Alexa Developer Portal
• Understanding the Request and Response Format for Alexa
• Assigning Logic to Alexa Requests (Intents)

Something to Note
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is not a requirement, it is a convenience.

Using Alexa Skills
• Alexa, ask Nest to set the thermostat to 75 degrees
• Alexa, ask Uber to request a ride
• Alexa, ask WebMD for the side effects of Methamphetamine

Alexa in Action
• Alexa performs a speech to text analysis
• Alexa recognizes the invocation word
○ Ex: Uber, Nest, WebMD, etc.
• Alexa associates the spoken command to an Intent
• The Intent information with optional parameters are sent to the API

Functions as a Service (FaaS) with AWS
Lambda

Alexa Invocation Name
• Not the same as the Skill name.
• Used to initiate Skill on an Alexa powered device.
○ Alexa, ask INVOCATION_NAME…
• Should be real words that can be easily pronounced.
• Should be unique to prevent Skill overlap.

Alexa Intents and Sample Utterances
• An Alexa Skill has numerous Intents.
• Intents are individual Skill commands or actions.
○ Ex: Get the current temperature.
○ Ex: Get the weekly forecast.
• Utterances are phrases to activate an Intent.
• The more utterances for an Intent, the less likely to be misunderstood.
• Alexa has reserved Intents for specific functionality.
○ Ex: Asking for help using the Skill

Reserved Alexa Intents
• HelpIntent
• StopIntent
• CancelIntent
• FallbackIntent

Summary
• Amazon Web Services (AWS) is not a requirement, it is a convenience.
• Invocation names should be real words that are pronounceable with most accents.
• Sample utterances should exist for all possible requests.
• Functions should finish executing quickly.

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Getting Help
• Alexa - developer.amazon.com/alexa
• Lambda - aws.amazon.com/lambda
• Twitter - @nraboy
• Blog - thepolyglotdeveloper.com

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