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Create Your Lambda Function (SDK v2)

Learn to Program Alexa: Course OverviewCourse Overview

Add Persistence to Your Skill (SDK v1)

Get User Input (SDK v1)

Make Alexa skills interactive using behaviors from the Alexa sdk.

Speak, Listen & Reprompt

Lesson 1 of 2

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Interacting with Alexa
In this lesson, you will learn the fundamentals of generating dialogue using the Alexa SDK to create the following conversation: Alexa: Hello, welcome to Codecademy. What do you think is Codecadem…
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Make Alexa Speak
Let’s walk through the Lambda function for an example Popular Language skill. The index.js file to the right contains a Lambda function with empty handlers for the initial speaking portion…
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Wait for a User to Respond
Like we said in the last exercise, .speak() generates a response and then ends the session, so we’re never capturing the response from the user. Currently, our skill is set up so that Alexa asks t…
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Reprompt
Currently, the Lambda function for our Popular Language skill responds with the welcome message, waits for the next user utterance and then sends the LanguageIntent response. Although this is…
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Review
You have learned a number of methods in this lesson to control how Alexa interacts with a user. - this.response.speak() sets up a response to the user and ends the session. - Chaining .listen() to…
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What you'll create

Portfolio projects that showcase your new skills

Most Popular Sport
It's time to build fluency in Alexa slots. In this next Pro Project, we're going to practice slots in Alexa Skills so you can hone your skills and feel confident taking them to the real world. Why? Slots allow us to build more sophisticated Alexa Skills. What's next? Sports, slots, more Alexa. You got this!

How you'll master it

Stress-test your knowledge with quizzes that help commit syntax to memory

Get User Input
Which of the following lines of code will generate a speech output?

Get User Input (SDK v1)