We do hope you enjoyed creating the Handsfree Messenger skill, which was slightly more evolved than our previous skill and oriented toward the practical use of Alexa/Echo devices. The skill that we created in this section still has room for a lot of improvement. For example, currently, our skill sends messages to predefined/hard-coded recipients, which can be improved by passing the recipient details via a slot to the Lambda so that it does not have to be predefined in the Lambda. We intentionally did not cover this and it is intended to be an extension exercise, which we highly recommend that you undertake if you really want to be an Alexa Skills Jedi sooner.

But, we again completed one more interesting Alexa Skill.

In the next chapter, we will extend our faculties regarding Alexa knowledge a little further by creating an Alexa Skill that is more oriented towards entertainment, will use a slightly more complex voice interface, and will be even more fun.

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