Yours for free, the first 3 chapters of Manning's "Voice Applications for Alexa and Google Assistant" book written by Algolia's voice guru, Dustin Coates.
The book is your guide to designing, building, and implementing voice-based applications for Alexa and Google Assistant. Inside, you'll learn how to build your own "skills" (the voice app term for actions the device can perform) from scratch.
Chapter 1 covers:
- Understanding voice first
- Designing for voice
- Picturing how computers listen to speech
- Understanding how computers speak
Chapter 2 covers:
- Building with the Alexa Skills Kit SDK for Node.js
- Becoming acquainted with serverless platforms, including AWS Lambda
- Building a call-and-response skill
- Handling intents
- Communicating with voice
Chapter 3 covers:
- Understanding the voice user interface
- Seeing how VUI differ from graphical user interfaces
- Learning how to use Grice’s maxims to shape a VUI
