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S. A. KingabyData-Driven Alexa Skillshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7449-1_7

7. Custom Alexa Skills

Simon A. Kingaby1  
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La Vergne, TN, USA
 

Now that you’ve published your first Alexa skill, let’s go back through the steps and look at each of them a little more in depth. In Part I, you created an Alexa skill from VUI development to back-end code to publishing in the Alexa Skills Store. In Part II, we’ll develop another skill, and we’ll see how to use some of the more advanced features of the Alexa platform.

Alexa Hosted vs. Fully Custom

In Part I, the BMI calculator was an Alexa-hosted skill. This meant the front end, back end, and everything in between ...

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