Creating Intents and Building the Model

Intents provided by the template

After the invocation name, the next important component of the interaction model is creating the intents.

We selected a template when we started creating our Skill. That template has essentially provided us with one custom intent, a few built-in Amazon intents, and some pre-filled boilerplate code to get started.

In the previous module, we learned that intent represents an action that fulfills a user’s spoken request. This code already has some intents filled in. The first is the HelloWorldIntent which is a custom intent and also has some utterances already.

When we create a ...