These are the slides from the Amazon Alexa Meetup in Berlin in August 2016. It included an introduction and we showed how to write your first skill.

1. 1st Amazon Alexa
& other Voice Interfaces
Meetup
03.08.2016
Connect with us:
Tilmann - Twitter - Linkedin
Stefan - Twitter - LinkedIn
What we do: FutureOfVoice.com

2. Thanks to
Amir for the organization and
Amazon for providing the room and
! & "

3. Agenda
1. Introduction (2 min)
2. How to write your first skill in 28 minutes
3. Lightning Talks (10min)
4. Interactive Session - Use Cases (25min)
5. Beer and Pizza

4. Why voice?
• natural way to engage
• less friction
• will be around

5. We hope you
have met Alexa.

6. Let's build a skill that
posts your lunch
plans to Slack

7. 5 things to learn to use ASK:
1. intent
2. slot
3. utterance
4. request
5. response

8. What is an intent?
{
"intents": [
{
"intent": "postLunchPlan",
},
{
"intent": "AMAZON.HelpIntent"
},
{
"intent": "AMAZON.CancelIntent"
}
]
}

9. What is a slot?
{
"intents": [
{
"intent": "postLunchPlan",
"slots": [
{
"name": "foodtype",
"type": "FOOD_TYPES"
}
]
}
]
}

10. What is an utterance?
postLunchPlan that we are going for {foodtype} food
postLunchPlan that we are going for {foodtype}
postLunchPlan that i want {foodtype}
postLunchPlan {foodtype}

11. What is a request?
{
"session": {
"sessionId": "SessionId.64962248-519b-4e86-90de-f90c34f9ed59",
"attributes": {},
"user": { "userId": "amzn1.ask.account.AFP3ZW" },
"new": true
},
"request": {
"type": "IntentRequest",
"intent": {
"name": "postLunchPlan",
"slots": {
"foodtype": {
"name": "foodtype",
"value": "German"
}}}}}

12. What is a response?
{
"version": "1.0",
"response": {
"outputSpeech": {
"type": "SSML",
"ssml": "<speak> I posted your choice of German food on slack. </speak>"
},
"shouldEndSession": true
},
"sessionAttributes": {}
}

13. Summary
• Intent
• Slot
• Utterance
• Request
• Response

14. Let's code
Find the code on github.
Or start here: developer.amazon.com/ask

15. What we did
1. Set up Model
2. Write Code
3. Deploy Code to Lambda
4. Successful Test

16. Lightning Talk
by @Matas
Avakai meets Alexa

17. Use Cases
for
Voice Interfaces

18. Let's create a vision together
Intro: 4 Attributes of voice interfaces
Workshop: Create visions for voice interfaces

19. 1. Voice is our natural language

20. 2. Usable without hands

21. 3. Voice can be more human

22. 4. Direct access to all functions

23. 4 Attributes
Natural
Hands free
Human
Access

24. Process
• Go to your nametag number
• 5 min brainstorming challenge
• Rotate to next higher number
• Another 5 min brainstorming challenge
• Receive documentation via meetup.com
• continue with ! & "

25. 5 min brainstoming challenge
• Goal: How can a life with an omnipresent voice interface
look like
- Take a look persona & situation
- Extend the situation
- Ideate use cases
• Silent brainstorming
- Communication via postits
- Write a postit for each thought
- Pin postit directly on the wall

26. Let's get started

27. Images
We used images from the following sources:
• gratisography.com
• unsplash.com
• pixabay.com
Thank you.