nmghelani / awesome-alexa

Curated Awesome List for Amazon Alexa

Awesome Alexa

Alexa Skills Kit - All you need to know about building skills for Alexa

Slack Channel for Support - Join Alexa Devs India Slack channel to get your queries answered

Videos & Tutorials
- Alexa developers YouTube Channel - watch Alexa devs videos to understand more about Alexa
- Tutorials - Codecademy - watch tutorials from Codecademy and learn to build a skill
- Training Courses – learn by watching Alexa devs training courses
- Webinar Recordings – learn by watching webinar recordings
- YouTube video: making skills with Node and AWS Lambda - Alexa 101
- Dabble Lab free Alexa course - My personal favourite!
- Dabble Lab Youtube Channel - My personal favourite!
- Jamie's Dev Shed - learn to develop for Echo Show
- Flask-Ask Sentdex Youtube Playlist - Using Flask (python framework) to build a skill
- Alexa Development in Hindi - Building Amazon Alexa Skills explained in Hindi

Github Repository
- Github Repository – glance through templates for Alexa skills
- Alexa Cookbook – short code samples that show you how to add features to an Alexa skill

Skill Building Support
- Alexa Blog – learn more about Alexa and skill building from the blogs
- Voice Design – learn how to going about designing for voice
- Test Your Skill – read how you can test a new skill
- Submit Your Skill for Certification – learn the steps and requirements to get your skill launched
- Alexa Skill building documentation – learn more technicalities of skill building
- Mix Master Kid Skill Template – practice key design principles including progressive prompting to help guide kids through interactions, and leveling to give kids a sense of accomplishment
- Alexa developer forum – hosted by Amazon
- Alexa Skills Store US – check out existing skills in the US skill store, new arrivals, skill categories, and customer reviews.
- Alexa Skills Store IN – check out existing skills in the IN skill store, new arrivals, skill categories, and customer reviews.

Meet our Architects
- Join us for 'Helpdesk: ASK and Architect' – every Thursday get answer to your Alexa-related questions from 3.00 PM IST

Designing / Protoyping / Platforms
- VoiceApps (Build Alexa Skills in Minutes)
- Sayspring (Voice Prototypes for Amazon Alexa)
- Storyline (Create voice apps without coding)
- PullString (Design, Prototype, and Publish Voice Apps)

Programming Languages & SDKs
- JavaScript: Alexa Skills Kit SDK for JavaScript / Node.js (Lambda)
- Java: Java Alexa Skills Kit SDK (Lambda)
- Python: Alexa Skills Kit SDK for Python
- C# / .NET: Alexa Skills SDK for .NET
- Ruby: https://github.com/sjmog/ralyxa
- Flask-Ask Alexa Skills kit for Python - Creating SSML (Speech Synthesis Markup Language) using the builder pattern

Tools
- Alexa Skills Kit Command Line Interface (ASK CLI)
- Bespoken CLI (Develop, Debug, and Test Live on Your Laptop)
- Skillinator (prototype Alexa Skills for Alexa Skills Kit SDK for JavaScript / Node.js (Lambda))

Developer Perks
- AWS Promotional Credits
- Free Tshirts/hoodies/Echo dots

Events
- Alexa Dev Days - Alexa Dev Days are free, interactive events from Amazon and sponsored by Intel. Engage in hands-on sessions where you will learn to create voice experiences and hear the latest on UI design and industry trends. Learners of all levels can join us for training sessions, workshops, live demos, and networking with Alexa experts and your peers.