😎 Lighten your cognitive load. Level up with the Alexa Skills Kit Video Tutorial.

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Welcome to Flask-Ask

Building high-quality Alexa skills for Amazon Echo Devices takes time. Flask-Ask makes it easier and much more fun. Use Flask-Ask with ngrok to eliminate the deploy-to-test step and get work done faster.

Flask-Ask:

• Has decorators to map Alexa requests and intent slots to view functions
• Helps construct ask and tell responses, reprompts and cards
• Makes session management easy
• Allows for the separation of code and speech through Jinja templates
• Verifies Alexa request signatures

Follow along with this quickstart on Amazon.

Table Of Contents

• Getting Started
  • Installation
  • A Minimal Voice User Interface
• Handling Requests
  • Mapping Alexa Requests to View Functions
  • Mapping Intent Slots to View Function Parameters
  • session, context, request and version Context Locals
• Building Responses
  • Telling with statement
  • Asking with question
  • Session Management
  • Automatic Handling of Plaintext and SSML
  • Displaying Cards in the Alexa Smartphone/Tablet App
  • Jinja Templates
• Configuration
  • Configuration
  • Logging
• User Contributions

If you have an Alexa, Flask-Ask looks fantastic! https://t.co/vpoFsVNqI5

— Kenneth Reitz (@kennethreitz) May 27, 2016