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This guideline document is intended to help developers want to integrate AVS with the device. Steps described in this page mainly covers the developer account creation and defining different rules to launch/control RDK APPs. These rules created in developers Alexa account will interact with the AVS SDK application ported to the devices to achieve desire tasks.
Term | Meaning |
Utterance | The words the customer says to Alexa to convey what they want to do, or to provide a response to a question Alexa asks |
Intent | A representation of the action that fulfills a customer's spoken request. |
Slot | An argument to an intent that gives Alexa more information about that request. For example, Alexa, ask History Buff what happened on June third. In this statement, …June third is the value of a date slot that refines the request |
Skill | A set of actions or tasks that are accomplished by Alexa. Skills are like apps for Alexa, helping customers perform everyday tasks or engage with your content naturally with voice |
custom skill | A skill that uses a custom interaction model. You define the requests your skill can handle |
Full list of terms can be referred from https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/ask-overviews/alexa-skills-kit-glossary.html
It is the name given to custom skill. Invocation of the skill is started by the invocation name followed by the intent.
Edit your skill in the developer console, then navigate to Build > Custom > Interaction Model > Invocation and enter or edit the Skill Invocation Name
In code section of the Alexa developer console, you will find the hello world example template code where you can add the your modification as shown below
Above code snippet is added to the custom skill to launch YouTube. Here if you give the lunch YouTube utterance to the device then skill will forward the command to SDK to launch the YouTube.
Be sure to include utterances that include words and phrases that will vary when users say the intent. In the example above, this includes words and phrases like "Friday," "san Francisco", "Seattle," and "next Thursday."
Sample utterances must be unique. You cannot have duplicate sample utterances mapped to different intents.
Identify the slots in the utterances as described below link.
https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/custom-skills/create-intents-utterances-and-slots.html
Use the simulator provided on the Test page in the developer console. This gives you access to most Alexa Skills Kit features without a device. You can interact with Alexa using either voice or text.