## Create Alexa Skill

<ol>

<li> Log into the Amazon Developer Console 

<li> Navigate to the  "Amazon Alexa" section

<li> Click 'Create Alexa Skills"

<li> Click  'Start a Skill'

<p> You should now be in the <strong>Alexa Developer Console</strong>.


<li> Click 'Create Skill'

<li> Specify the following  information and click 'Create Skill'

```
Skill Name (your choice e.g., "call_NLC")
Ensure the 'Custom and Provision Your Own' tile have been selected
``` 

<li> Choose the <strong>Start from Scratch</strong> template option on the next screen
and click 'Create'

<p> A screen exhibiting a 'Skill Builder Checklist' should  appear

<li> Specify the following  information:

```
Innvocation name: (Your choice e.g.  "my natural language classifier" )

Intent:   'ClassifyPhrase' 

This must  match the intent value that the Python code can recognize. viz.,

```

```python
if intent_name == "ClassifyPhrase":
   return classify_phrase(intent)
```

Example utterances:  classify {Utterance}

    Accept the option to define Utterance as a slot 
    Select AMAZON.SearchQuery as the slot type farther down on the page.
    
Endpoint:  Check  the box for  <strong>AWS Lambda ARN</strong>

<strong>Note the Skill ID that appears </strong>

<strong>Keep track of Skill name, Skill ID, innvocation name</strong>

</ol>

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