This chapter showed us how to do a lot of new things. We started by creating our first Alexa Skill using Alexa Skills Kit. This involved learning about and creating intents, slots, and utterances. With the configuration completed, we created a Lambda to handle the request using Alexa-SDK. This Lambda is where we defined the response that would be sent to the user. Finally, we built and tested our new Alexa Skill using the built-in testing tools.
Having made a basic first skill, we started to create a more useful second skill. We used a custom slot type and applied it to slots in our intents. We then used Amazon's S3 service to store the data we needed before using AWS SDK to easily get the data and use it in our Lambda.
Using the skills learned in this chapter, you can go build a huge range of powerful skills for Alexa.
In the next chapter we'll learn to access...