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Acoustic Model: a representation that maps “the relationship between an audio signal and the phonemes or other linguistic units that make up speech. The model is learned from a set of audio recordings and their corresponding transcripts. It is created by taking audio recordings of speech, and their text transcriptions, and using software to create statistical representations of the sounds that make up each word.”

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Home card: An element displayed in the Alexa app to describe or enhance a voice interaction with a custom skill. Cards are useful when testing and debugging the Lambda function or web service for a skill.

Houndify: A platform by music identifier service SoundHound that lets developers integrate speech recognition and Natural Language Processing systems into hardware and other software systems.

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  • Full Intent: A spoken request in which the user expresses everything that is required to complete their request, all at once, such as “Alexa ask Elle.com for today’s horoscope for Virgo.”

  • Partial Intent: A spoken request in which the user expresses just partial information of what is required to complete their request such as “Alexa ask Elle.com for the horoscope.”

  • No Intent: A spoken request with minimal information such as “Alexa talk to Elle Magazine.”

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Invocation Name: The word or phrase used to trigger your skill. For example: “Alexa, ask History Buff what happened on June third” to open start the History Buff skill. Note: invocation names are only needed for Custom Skills.

Invoke: A hardware Echo-like device manufactured by Harman Kardon that enables users to engage Cortana in Far-Field conversations.

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