The Age of Talkies
summary
A Clojure library called Boomhauer ties Alexa Skills Kit intents and slots to service code and a demo skill scrapes a conference schedule, answers “what time is my talk” and reads abstracts, deployed as an uberjar to AWS Lambda via the Alexa APIs. It takes a few days to build a working skill, but pain points include generating many utterances, JVM cold starts of ~1–2s, repeated certification cycles and mandatory account linking. Alexa Skills Kit intents and slots
AI-written summary · about
chapters (4)
related talks
39mIt's All in the Data: The ML Behind Alexa's AI Systems
32mHow Alexa keeps getting smarter
31mSeamless Customer Service with Amazon Connect & Alexa
03h 52mLivestream 1
55mMachine Learning and AI in Java on AWS
47mBuilding sophisticated conversational AI experiences
48mBuilding Serverless AI powered Applications on AWS
15mAI at Amazon