Create Alexa Skills using

IBM Watson Conversation and Apache OpenWhisk

Niklas Heidloff Developer Advocate, IBM

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January 2018

Alexa, start Watson How is the weather? Berlin

Hello. How can I help you?

Please tell me your location.

Okay. I'll lookup the weather for Berlin... Looking up

weather information for Berlin... Light rain developing in the afternoon. Highs in the

upper 30s with temperatures nearly steady overnight.

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Alexa Simulator

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Dem

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Alexa Application

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Motivation of the Pattern

Motivation

•  Use Alexa to test conversations defined with Watson

•  Learn Apache OpenWhisk and Watson Conversation capabilities

•  Use Watson Conversation for rapid prototyping of conversations for Alexa skills

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Architecture

Architecture

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Amazon D

eveloper Console

Skill Deployment – Invocation Phrase

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Amazon D

eveloper Console

Skill Deployment – Intents and Slots

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Amazon D

eveloper Console

Skill Deployment – OpenWhisk URL

@nheidloff OpenWhisk URL: https://openwhisk.ng.bluemix.net/api/v1/web/niklas_heidloff%40de.ibm.com_demo/default/alexa-watson.json

Amazon D

eveloper Console

Skill Deployment – SSL Settings

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Amazon D

eveloper Console

Simulator

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Amazon D

eveloper Console

Simulator

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Amazon D

eveloper Console

Simulator

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Watson Conversation

Intents

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Watson Conversation

Weather Intent

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Watson Conversation

Entities

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Watson Conversation

Location Entity

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Watson Conversation

Dialog – Greetings Node

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Watson Conversation

Dialog – Weather Node

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IBM Cloud Functions

OpenWhisk Function Parameters

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IBM Cloud Functions

OpenWhisk Function Web URL

@nheidloff Web URL: https://openwhisk.ng.bluemix.net/api/v1/web/niklas_heidloff%40de.ibm.com_demo/default/alexa-watson.json

OpenW

hisk Function

OpenWhisk Function – Main

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OpenW

hisk Function

OpenWhisk Function – Initialize Clients

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OpenW

hisk Function

OpenWhisk Function – Handle Session Context

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OpenW

hisk Function

OpenWhisk Function – Send Message to Watson

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OpenW

hisk Function

OpenWhisk Function – Handle Action

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OpenW

hisk Function

OpenWhisk Function – Send Response to User

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Resources

Resources

•  https://github.com/IBM/alexa-skill-watson-conversation •  https://developer.ibm.com/code/patterns

•  https://www.ibm.com/cloud •  https://www.ibm.com/watson/services/conversation •  https://www.ibm.com/cloud/functions

•  https://developer.amazon.com/edw/home.html#/skills •  https://alexa.amazon.de •  https://echosim.io/welcome

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