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A simple to use, boilerplate template for a new Alexa skill for the Amazon Echo. It's not really useful in its literal form, as it's real purpose is to show people how easy creating a custom skill can be. It basically allows your Echo to respond to utterances like "How does a duck go?" and Echo responds "Quack, Quack". It does this for a range of animals. It also responds to "Roll a Dice".
This project is available under the MIT license. Please respect the terms of the license.
This software is released with the karmaware tag
I've done best efforts testing on my personal Amazon Echo. If you find any problems, do let me know by raising an issue here. Better still, create a fix for the problem too and drop in the changes; that way everyone can benefit from it.
To use this boiler plate code to create your own skills, you will need an Amazon account. Your normal Amazon retail account will work for this. You will need to log in to both the Amazon Developer Site and the Amazon AWS Site.
On the Developer Site, you should go though Create A New Skill wizard and use the files here to fill out the fields. On the AWS Site, you will need to create a new Lambda function and paste in the code here to the body of that. Then you join the two together by connecting the lambda function ID to your new skill.
| File | How to Use It |
|---|---|
| intents.json | Paste this into the intents edit box during the Create A New Skill wizard |
| utterances.txt | Paste this into the sample utterances edit box during the Create A New Skill wizard |
| animals.lst | Paste this into the custom enumeration edit box during the Create A New Skill wizard |
| lambda.js | Paste this as the body of your Lambda function in AWS |
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– Pete Rai