JSFoo: round the year submissions

JSFoo: round the year submissions

Submit talks on JavaScript and full stack engineering round the year

Submit talks and workshops on:

  1. Full stack engineering
  2. JavaScript frameworks
  3. Architecture approaches and case studies
  4. JavaScript and IoT
  5. Web development
  6. JavaScript for hobbyists

We will find a forum to place your talk, any time during the year.

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Mukul jain

@mukuljain

Hey Alexa, let's build an Alexa Skill using Nodejs

Submitted Feb 12, 2018

This is the era of voice, plain and simple! Siri, Google Assistant & Alexa, all have made an undeniable impact. AI, one the application of Machine Learning, is the new buzz-word and backbone of voice-user interface. In this talk, I will discuss best practices of building Alexa Skills using Nodejs.

Outline

I will be discussing my experience and learnings, of building conversational Alexa Skills. After building various Alexa skills, I’ve learned that building them is easier part but making an user to have a conversation with Alexa, is the real deal.

During this session, I will cover:

  • Voice-user Interface
  • Why voice over Web
  • AWS Polly, NLP behind the scene Alexa Skills Kit
  • Understanding Intent Schemas, Slots and Sample utterances of Alexa Skills
  • Lambda Function and why serverless over monolithic architecture
  • Developing and testing your Alexa Skill, without an Alexa Enabled device
  • Best Voice Practices
  • What future holds for “voice bots”
  • Conclusion and QA

Speaker bio

Mukul is a Node.js enthusiast, technology savvy, blogger, speaker, and Bibliophile. Mukul has experience in developing and scaling full-stack applications using isomorphic frameworks like Meteor and serverless architectures like AWS. He has been speaker at JSChannel 2017, JSFusion, Meteor-Noida, and AWSDelhi. He is also a mentor at Paytm - Build for India initiative
Also, a huge movie geek in his free time.

Slides

https://www.slideshare.net/MukulJain26/hey-alexa-lets-build-an-alexa-skill-using-nodejs

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