Get Started with a Voice Assistant: Developing Alexa Skills (FutureLearn)

This means learning this new technology in the initial stage will give you an extra edge in the industry, as demand for voice UI developers continues to grow.

This three-week course will help you kickstart your voice developer journey and give you a strong foundation of knowledge in Alexa Skills.

Learning from the experts at Labdox, you’ll be introduced to voice technology, and Alexa, before learning about the future of how we will communicate with technology.

Get hands-on VUI experience

You’ll gain practical experience using the Alexa Skills Kits (ASK) and learn to design an engaging voice user interface (VUI) as you create a voice UI and build a custom Alexa Skill from scratch.

Delving into the Alexa technology, you’ll create your own Alexa Skill with code and learn how to publish it to the skill store.

Explore the history of a voice assistant

To deepen your understanding of voice assistants, you’ll explore the evolution of a voicer user interface.

You’ll also delve into the concepts of voice assistants and identify the differences between voice UI and screen UI.

By the end of the course, you will be ready to create Alexa Skills that your customers or friends will love.

What topics will you cover?

- About Voice Assistants

- Concepts of Voice Assistants

- About Alexa Skills

- Conversational Design

- Voice User Interface

- Alexa Skills Design

- Interaction Models

- Alexa Backend Creation – how to create the backend, how to connect the interaction model with the backend, and testing an Alexa Skill to finally publishing it to the Alexa Skill Store.

Learning on this course

You can take this self-guided course and learn at your own pace. On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

- Create your first voice conversation

- Compare Voice User Interface and User Interface

- Create Alexa Skills from scratch

- Classify intents and intent handlers

- Perform publishing of Alexa Skills

- Develop coding skills for Alexa

- The difference between Voice User Interface and Video User Interface

Who is the course for?

This course is designed for developers interested in Alexa Skills.

It is an introductory course for people who want to add custom skills to their Amazon Alexa device.