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Course overview and what you’ll learn this week

Course overview and what you’ll learn this week

Thanks for joining the course, it’s great to have you with us. Over the next few weeks, we will be exploring the fantastic world of Voice Technology, particularly Amazon Alexa, the advent of Voice Technology, the science behind it, you will also learn to design and publish Alexa Apps in simple steps. Please take a few minutes to watch the introduction video here, where we’ll explain what voice technology is and a glimpse of the fantastic world of Alexa?

Course overview

This course aims to equip you with a broad understanding of Voice Technology, Alexa Skills, Voice User Interface, and its benefits, creating Alexa skills in easy steps, validating and publishing Alexa skills. We will also be covering steps to develop Alexa Skills without coding.

What will I learn?

  • By the end of this course, you will be able to…
  • Describe what is voice technology is
  • Explain why voice technology is important
  • Explain what is Voice User Interface
  • Describe the technology behind Alexa
  • Create Voice User Interface
  • Create Alexa skills with no code
  • Identify the critical features that Alexa skills developers should include in publishing an Alexa skill
  • Publish Alexa Skills

In this week, we will cover:

  • What is Voice Assistant
  • Evolution of Voice User Interface
  • Details of Voice User Interface
  • Introduction to Amazon Alexa
  • Overview of Voice Technologies

About labdox

Labdox is a global learning provider aiming to help 1 Million learners to acquire entrepreneurial and engineering skills from emerging sectors & technologies. Through our varied courses in Amazon Alexa, we have helped many learners to start their professional and entrepreneurial careers in Voice Technologies. Each of our course content is meticulously designed by subject matter experts, Influencers, and Industry Experts.

We have courses for Alexa starting from introductory levels to the most nuanced and advanced levels.

To earn a Certificate of Achievement for the course, you must complete over 90% of the course steps. Therefore, it is essential to always click the ‘Mark as complete’ button at the end of every course step (where applicable) to record your completion successfully.

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