Gain insights into developing voice apps with Alexa Skills Kit. Delve into real projects, learn fundamentals, and discover how to launch apps on the Alexa skill store.

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Voice is the next big revolution in tech. As conversational AI finds new and interesting use cases, it's time for developers to make use of the new opportunities to re-use their existing skills to build the next generation of apps powered by voice. 

This course will help you learn how to start developing apps for Alexa using the Alexa Skills Kit. You will be building real and interesting projects that will help you understand the fundamentals. Along the way, you will learn all the skills you need to launch your own apps on the Alexa skill store and reach millions of customers around the world. "Hey Alexa, shall we begin?"

Alexa Skills 101: Building voice apps for Alexa

The user can ask Alexa for trivia related to heroes, and our Skill must be able to respond with that.

To achieve this, we are going to build a new handler. This handler will acknowledge that the user is asking for hero trivia and will give the trivia back to the user.

We'll again follow the instructions step by step to complete the code and later copy it over to the Alexa console.


# About HelloWorldIntentHandler

Notice that the `HelloWorldIntentHandler` is still in the code. Didn’t we delete `HelloWorldIntent` though?

Not entirely. While the intent is gone from the interaction model, the back-end handler is still present. We need a new handler, so let’s make things easier and reuse this handler for a new one called `GetTriviaIntentHandler`.


# Create GetTriviaIntentHandler

It's time to replace `HelloWorldIntentHandler` with `GetTriviaIntentHandler`.

* Find the line that starts with `const HelloWorldIntentHandler`. On that line, rename `HelloWorldIntentHandler` to `GetTriviaIntentHandler`. We have done this for you in the code widget below.
* Within the `GetTriviaIntentHandler` on the line that begins with `&& Alexa.getIntentName`, change `HelloWorldIntent` to `GetTriviaIntent`.



We will code the handler for GetTriviaIntent in this lesson.

Hello Alexa: An Introduction to the World of Voice

Setting You Up For Success

Your First Skill

Advanced Concepts

Building a Game: Voice Clues

Voice Clues: Coding with ASK CLI

Next Steps

Hero Trivia: Coding GetTriviaIntentHandler