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Welcome to the incredible world of voice user interfaces (VUIs). You are embarking on a fantastic voyage of discovery. Are you new to VUI? Do you have a little bit of Python under your belt? Do you want to learn how to design and build innovative, custom, data-driven Alexa skills for your home and business? Have you already published your first dice rolling skill? Are you an experienced Alexa skill builder and want to integrate Alexa with online APIs (Application Program Interfaces), rich data sources, and powerful applications? If you answered “Yes,” then this book will show you how to analyze, build, test, and deploy data-driven Alexa skills. You will learn how to use the tools, techniques, and code so that you quickly level up, first building a simple calculator skill, on up to the final project, where you will create a FinTech (Financial Technology) skill that uses APIs to tell you your personal net worth.
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Kingaby, S.A. (2022). Voice User Interfaces. In: Data-Driven Alexa Skills. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7449-1_1
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