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APIs Build an Alexa Skill Testing and Publishing an Alexa Skill Testing an Alexa Skill

Alexander Sanchez
Alexander Sanchez
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Posted by Alexander Sanchez
Alexander Sanchez
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Where does the response for an utterance come from? Alexa?

I think I missed this bit of information along the way or I just didn't get it. But, after I create a skill and lambda, created my intent schema, and now ready to test, where does the answer come from? For example, if I said, "Alexa, ask Treehouse for the definition of CSS," where does the definition come from? Does Alexa go online and look for the best response? Does she connect to a backend (e.g. Treehouse's) to get the definition? I missed this piece.

1 Answer

Andrew Chalkley
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Andrew Chalkley
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Andrew Chalkley
Andrew Chalkley
Treehouse Guest Teacher

It comes from the skill service you upload to Lambda.

They are stored in the definitions.json :)