Presenting Amazon’s Alexa https://mldavidson.wordpress.com/ Presenting Amazon’s Alexa By: Phillipe Loher From https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Echo-Bluetooth-Speaker-with-WiFi-Alexa/dp/B00X4WHP5E - Tucked under the light ring is an array of seven microphones that use beam-forming technology and enhanced noise cancellation. With far-field voice recognition, Echo can hear you ask a question from any direction—even while playing music.

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Alexa in different bodies Amazon Echo vs Amazon Tap, vs Amazon Echo Dot. Picture from http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/136952-amazon-echo-vs-amazon-tap-vs-echo-dot-what-s-the-difference

Competition Apple Siri (via homekit or so) rumored to be working on a speaker. Siri phone picture from http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/24/11763836/apple-siri-speaker-amazon-echo-alexa-google-home-ai IBM Watson / JBL speaker from http://newatlas.com/ibm-watson-hospital-room/45766/

Example commands Alexa, will it rain today? Alexa, what was the score of the [team] game Alexa, Wikipedia: [subject] Alexa, how tall is [person] Alexa, how many teaspoons are in a cup Alexa, tell me about the movie [title] Alexa, send that to my tablet Alexa, do you have a dog? Alexa, tell me a joke Alexa, sing me happy birthday Alexa, say the ABC’s

Home Automation Picture from https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01DFKC2SO/ref=ods_xs_dp_oop

Integration with Iris Smart Hub & Lowes

Other Skills Picture from https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01DFKC2SO/ref=ods_xs_dp_oop

Alexa has 3 types of skills Smart Home Skills Flash Briefing Skills Custom Skills

Overview of custom skill Define skill & setup interaction model Define invocation name Setup intent schemas Define sample utterances Develop and deploy endpoint Test, Associate, Test and Publish endpoint

From: https://developer. amazon

Popular libraries Node.js Alexa Skills Kit Samples (JavaScript) https://github.com/amzn/alexa-skills-kit-js ask-alexa-pykit (Python) https://github.com/anjishnu/ask-alexa-pykit A minimalist framework for developing apps (skills) for the Amazon Echo's SDK: The Alexa Skills Kit (ASK)

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