Intelligent Speaker

1. Name : Vishal Prajapati
Roll No : MA041

2. Agenda
 Introduction
 Why Growth of Intelligent Speaker?
 How its Works?
 Alexa Skills Kit ( ASK )
 Applications of Alexa
 Competitors
 Conclusion
 References

3. Introduction
 Alexa is the voice service that powers Echo
device, or skills, that enable customers to interact
with devices in a more intuitive way using voice.
 Examples of these skills include the ability to
play music, provide information, deliver news and
sports scores, tell you the weather information.
 Alexa is built in the cloud, so it is always getting
smarter.

4. What is Amazon Echo?
 Amazon Echo is a Hands-free speaker
controlled with your voice. It features a personal
assistant called Alexa , who will perform various
tasks.

5. Why Growth of Intelligent Speaker?
 The past decade has been dominated by touch screen devices, but
a new revolution is brewing voice-controlled systems powered by
Artificial Intelligence.
 Instead of controlling everything via apps, we’ll be talking to
virtual assistants to control everything from our computers to our
home lighting.

6. How its Works?

7. Alexa Skills Kit ( ASK )
 ASK is a collection of self-service APIs, tools, documentation, and
code samples that makes it fast and easy for you to add skills to
Alexa.
 Amazon allows developers to build and publish skills for Alexa
using the Alexa Skills Kit.

8. Alexa Skill Type
 Smart Home Skills
o Built-in interaction model .
o Alexa, turn on room’s light .
o Alexa need permissions to retrieve device information and
control device.
o You need a cloud service to manage customers smart devices
Skill must use AWS Lambda function.

9. Alexa Skill Type
 Custom Skills
o Build a skill with a custom Interaction Model. This is a called custom
skill.
o Customer need to remember interaction name or invocation
phrase .

10. Alexa Skill Type
 Flash Briefing Skills
o A flash briefing skill is the only way that you can provide
content for a customer’s flash briefing.
o Pre-recorded audio clips and text-to-speech.
o This helps a customer choose your skill in the skill store.

11. Alexa Speech Detection

13. Examples
 "Alexa, wake me up at 7 in the morning“
 "Alexa, what's on my calendar today?“
 "Alexa, what's in the news?“
 "Alexa, turn on all the lights“
 "Alexa, play my Favourites playlist“
 "Alexa, what's the weather in London?“
 "Alexa, set the bedroom to 20 degrees"

14. Applications of Alexa

15. Competitors
Siri Google Assistant Cortana

16. Conclusion
 Amazon Echo is a big step forward when it comes to voice control
technology. It’s always on microphones and integration with third-party
apps means that there really are a ton of things that you can do using
just your voice.
 As the technology continues to improve, so will the number of things
you can do with Alexa!

17. References
 https://developer.amazon.com/alexa
 http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/what-is-alexa-what-is-the-amazon-
echo-and-should-you-get-one/
 http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/138846-amazon-echo-what-can-
alexa-do-and-what-services-are-compatible
 https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/details/

18. Thank You