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© 2016, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
Andy Huntwork
Paul Cutsinger
December 2, 2016
From VUI to QA: Building a Voice-Based
Adventure Game for Alexa
Anatomy of “The Magic Door”
ALX305
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What to Expect from the Session
• What are Amazon Alexa and Alexa skills?
• What is Magic Door?
• Key aspects of an engaging skill
• Tooling for testing, analytics, and continuous deployment
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Alexa, ask Skill Master what are skills?
wake word utteranceskill namelaunch slot value
Utterances, Slots, and Intents
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Alexa, ask Skill Master what are skills?
wake word utteranceskill namelaunch slot value
Tell me more about what skills are.
utterance slot value
Utterances, Slots, and Intents
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Alexa, ask Skill Master what are skills?
wake word utteranceskill namelaunch slot value
DefinitionIntent {value: “skills”}
slot valueintent
Tell me more about what skills are.
utterance slot value
Utterances, Slots, and Intents
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Demo
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Demo
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Start
Land Of Gods
RainbowTropical Island (end)
Forest
Pine Needles Path
Forest
Cloud Tower
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Statistics
• Development started: 11/14/2015
• Launched: 2/9/2016
• 100+ production code changes
• 11 certified versions published
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Statistics
• 3MM utterances
• 80,000 customers
• 60,000 completed adventures
• 60,000 items picked up
• 1
• 627 Facebook likes
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Story Workbench
User State
User
Alexa
Launches / Intents
Speech / Sounds / Cards
Graph API
Sounds
www.themagicdoor.org
login.themagicdoor.org
Sound Conversion Reactor
JSJSJSJS
Custom Analytics
Event Stream
Lambda
The Magic Door
JSJSJSStories
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Statistics
• 5,537 lines JS (including 2,509 lines of tests)
• 4,533 lines story XML
• < $10/month
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•Building V1•Working Backward•Recognizing User Speech•Managing Conversational State•Generating Speech
•Continuous Delivery•Voice Testing•Making Users Happy
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Working Backward (from the story)
ALEXA OPEN THE MAGIC DOOR
The door is open. In front of us are two paths. One is a dirt path leading into the forest. The other is a stone path leading to a flower garden.
Would you like to take the forest path or the garden path?
GARDEN PATH
Ok, follow me into the flower garden. The stone path wanders past colorful flowers and takes a turn, leading to a wooden fence with an open gate. Should we go through the gate or stay in the garden?.
GO THROUGH THE GATE
Transition
Launch phase
PromptChoice
Description
Scene
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•Building V1•Working Backward•Recognizing User Speech•Managing Conversational State•Generating Speech
•Continuous Delivery•Voice Testing•Making Users Happy
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User
Alexa
Lambda
Launches / Intents
Speech / Sounds / Cards
ASK Custom Voice Skills
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OperateDoor {doorType} doorOperateDoor check out the {doorType} doorOperateDoor explore the {doorType} doorOperateDoor go to the {doorType} doorOperateDoor go through {doorType} doorOperateDoor look at the {doorType}
ExploreBench explore the benchExploreBench explore the bench more
WalkDownPathToBoat walk down the pathWalkDownPathToBoat walk to the boatWalkDownPathToBoat walk down the bluffWalkDownPathToBoat walk on the path
OperateDoor open the doorwayOperateDoor open the doorway with the keyOperateDoor the doorwayOperateDoor what's behind doorwayOperateDoor what's inside doorway… (64 total lines)
Complex or FrequentSimple or Infrequent
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•Building V1•Working Backward•Recognizing User Speech•Managing Conversational State•Generating Speech
•Continuous Delivery•Voice Testing•Making Users Happy
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User
Alexa
Lambda
Launches / Intents
Speech / Sounds / Cards
ASK Custom Voice Skills
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Start
Land Of Gods
RainbowTropical Island (end)
Forest
Pine Needles Path
Forest
Cloud Tower
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•Building V1•Working Backward•Recognizing User Speech•Managing Conversational State•Generating Speech
•Continuous Delivery•Voice Testing•Making Users Happy
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Working Backward (from the story)
ALEXA OPEN THE MAGIC DOOR
The door is open. In front of us are two paths. One is a dirt path leading into the forest. The other is a stone path leading to a flower garden.
Would you like to take the forest path or the garden path?
GARDEN PATH
Ok, follow me into the flower garden. The stone path wanders past colorful flowers and takes a turn, leading to a wooden fence with an open gate. Should we go through the gate or stay in the garden?.
GO THROUGH THE GATE
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SSML
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<speak>
Wait. look! Did you just see that? A figure moved
past that third-floor window. Someone's up there.
Let's go up the steps and knock on the door.
</speak>
<speak>
Wait. <break time="1s"/> look! <break time="1s"/>
Did you just see that? A figure moved past that third-floor window.
<break time="1s"/> Someone's up there. Let's go up the steps
and knock on the door.
</speak>
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<speak>
Oh my. Do you feel that cold wind?
It sure is getting dark. We hear wolves
howling. I don’t like that.
</speak>
<speak>
Oh my. Do you feel that cold wind? It sure is getting dark.
<audio src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/[…]/creepywolves.mp3"/>
I don't like that.
</speak>
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<speak>
Her ethereal face suddenly turns monstrous as she
stands up and yells, “Everything is not OK. It’s a nightmare.”
</speak>
<speak>
Her ethereal face suddenly turns monstrous as she
stands up and yells.
<audio src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/[…]/monstrouswoman2.mp3"/>
</speak>
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Lambda
The Magic Door
JSJSJSStories
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Story Workbench
User State
User
Alexa
Launches / Intents
Speech / Sounds / Cards
Graph API
Sounds
www.themagicdoor.org
login.themagicdoor.org
Sound Conversion Reactor
JSJSJSJS
Custom Analytics
Event Stream
Lambda
The Magic Door
JSJSJSStories
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•Building V1•Working Backward•Recognizing User Speech•Managing Conversational State•Generating Speech
•Continuous Delivery•Voice Testing•Making Users Happy
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Laptops
Lambda
S3 Bucket
HuntworkFamily
code /stories /
modelsarchive
models
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1. mocha2. jshint3. XML syntax4. missing sounds
5. Validate Interaction Model6. grunt-aws-lambda7. grunt-aws-s3
http://github.com/ashuntwo/grunt-alexa-interaction-model
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Laptops FFMPEG
reactor
Incoming
sounds
HuntworkFamily
Public
sounds
Sound
EffectsBucket
Events
Finished
Audio
http://github.com/ashuntwo/sounds-reactor
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•Building V1•Working Backward•Recognizing User Speech•Managing Conversational State•Generating Speech
•Continuous Delivery•Voice Testing•Making Users Happy
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“Alexa, set debug on”http://github.com/ashuntwo/alexa-debug-mode
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“Would you like to go to the mountains, to the sea, or to the portal?”
“Crown”
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"If you have a bronze key, use it now to unlock this gate.”
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Certification Testing
• Do you handle a wide variety of possible user input?• Do your prompts ask a question?• Do you stop when the user asks you to?• Do you provide help?• Do you provide a meaningful description of your skill for the Alexa
Skill Store?• Do your image URLs work?• Is your interaction model consistent?
(http://amzn.to/2gN8rfZ)
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•Building V1•Working Backward•Recognizing User Speech•Managing Conversational State•Generating Speech
•Continuous Delivery•Voice Testing•Making Users Happy
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Analytics Stream
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“For tips and tricks, visit us on Facebook at facebook.com/AlexaMagicDoor.”
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“Alexa, who am I?”“You are G X U Q 5 C”
http://github.com/ashuntwo/alexa-whoami
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What’s next?
• Analytics
• Social
• Scaling content creation
• Payment
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Takeaways
• Work backward from the customer.
• Manage conversational state
• Obsess over SSML
• Test and deploy continuously
• Continuously improve user experience using custom skill analytics
• Get started by building a Decision Tree Skill (http://amzn.to/2gZLkBO)
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Thank you!
Andy Huntwork
@PaulCutsinger
December 2, 2016
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Remember to complete your evaluations!
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Other Alexa SessionsTh
urs
day
11:30am ALX202: How Amazon is enabling the future of Automotive Venetian, Level 3, Lido 3003
1pm ALX303: Building a Smarter Home with Alexa Venetian, Level 3, Murano 3203
3:30 ALX307: Voice-enabling Your Home and Devices with Amazon Alexa and AWS IoT Venetian, Level 2, Opaline Theatre
5pm ALX302: Build a Serverless Back End for Your Alexa-Based Voice Interactions Venetian, Level 2, Opaline Theatre
9:30am ALX304: Tips and Tricks on Bringing Alexa to Your Products Venetian, Level 1, Marco Polo 806
11am ALX305: From VUI to QA: Building a Voice-Based Adventure Game for Alexa Venetian, Level 1, Marco Polo 806
Frid
ay11am ALX203: Workshop: Creating Voice Experiences with Alexa Skills: From Idea to Testing in
Two HoursMirage, Jamaica B
1pm ALX306: State of the Union: Amazon Alexa and Recent Advances in Conversational AI Venetian, Level 2, Sands Showroom
11:30am and 2:30pm
ALX204: Workshop: Build an Alexa-Enabled Product with Raspberry Pi Mirage, Antigua B
5pm ALX301: Alexa in the Enterprise: How JPL Leverages Alexa to Further Space Exploration with Internet of Things
Venetian, Level 2, Venetian B
Wed
ne
sday
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Utterances Per Week
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1/31/16 3/21/16 5/10/16 6/29/16 8/18/16 10/7/16
Chart Title
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Takeaways
• Work backward from the customer.
• Manage conversational state
• Test and deploy continuously
• Continuously improve user experience using custom skill analytics
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Facebook -- Response
• “Alexa, ask the magic door who am I”
• “You are G X U Q 5 C”
• Adding hints.
• Restructuring scenes
• 1 story idea
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How to get more players?
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Ideas
• Weekly email to Alexa customers
• Skill store main page
• CNN
• Alexa developer forums
• Blogs
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“Alexa, share my achievement.”
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What’s next for The Magic Door?
• More traffic
• Make Cloud Tower more fun
• Halloween
• Improve the lobby
• Story test framework
• Reduce accidental exits, impossible choices, reprompt failures
• Money
• Better production
• Infinite worlds
• Improved intent matching
• Rewrite JS eval as custom grammar
• Background sound
• Knight support