Material used during the workshop is available here:
https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/workshops/build-an-engaging-skill/get-started/index.htmlhttps://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/workshops/build-an-engaging-skill/get-started/index.html

Alexa is Amazon’s voice AI. Alexa lives in the cloud and is happy to help anywhere there's internet access and a device that can connect to Alexa. Alexa Skills are like apps for Alexa, and provide a new channel for your content and services. 

In this workshop you will get hands-on experience using the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK). Learn how Alexa’s Natural Language Processing (NLP), Speech Recognition, and Text to Speech works. Build an engaging voice experience with intents, utterances, slot filling, confirmations and more.

• Intro to Voice Interfaces and why they are popular now
• How Voice Recognition works - What is NLP, ASR, SSML
• Building an Alexa Skill - building the front-end with utterances, intents and slots
• Building an Alexa Skill - Building the backend with Node JS/Python
• Putting it all together to build a great voice experience

• Laptop with internet connection
• Basic Python/Node JS knowledge
• Create a free account on developer.amazon.com

Note: Someone with basic programming knowledge will be able to follow the workshop even if they don't know Python or NodeJS