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Alexa Skills Projects

You're reading from  Alexa Skills Projects

Product type Book
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788997256
Pages 250 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Madhur Bhargava Madhur Bhargava
Profile icon Madhur Bhargava

Summary


We do hope that you enjoyed creating the Factly Skill. As with the previous skills, the Factly Skill still has room for a lot of improvement. For example, currently it only hosts three questions, which can be extended to 30 or even 300 questions, and that alone will convert this skill to a serious quiz game.

Also, we are only handling two intents. We can extend the skill to handle even more intents, which can deal with the repetition of questions and other sorts of replies from users (for example, "I don't know," "Pass," or "Next question").

Persistence with DynamoDB was something brand new that we introduced and learned about in this chapter, and the idea itself can be extended to persist multiple things such as user scores, user progress, and overall game state. We left these improvements as an exercise for the user to hone their skills even further.

In the next chapter, we will extend our Alexa knowledge even further by creating an Alexa Skill that is more oriented towards something...

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