1. Presenting Amazon’s Alexa
Presenting Amazon’s Alexa
By: Phillipe Loher
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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.

2. Knowledge Hands-on Community
“Inspire, advance knowledge, and promote hands-on experience in Machine Learning within our community”
Knowledge
Hands-on
Community
Intros to concepts
Detailed presentations
Step-by-step tutorials
Series
Group Projects
Individual Projects
Kaggle Competitions
Hackathons
Local ML Community
Personal Networking
Industry Exposure
Field Trips

3. Alexa in different bodies
Amazon Echo vs Amazon Tap, vs Amazon Echo Dot. Picture from

4. Competition
Apple Siri (via homekit or so) rumored to be working on a speaker. Siri phone picture from
IBM Watson / JBL speaker from

5. 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

6. Home Automation
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7. Integration with Iris Smart Hub & Lowes

8. Other Skills
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9. Alexa has 3 types of skills
Smart Home Skills
Flash Briefing Skills
Custom Skills

11. 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

12. From: https://developer. amazon

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

14. AWS Lambda lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers
AWS Lambda lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. You pay only for the compute time you consume - there is no charge when your code is not running. With Lambda, you can run code for virtually any type of application or backend service - all with zero administration. Just upload your code and Lambda takes care of everything required to run and scale your code with high availability. You can set up your code to automatically trigger from other AWS services or call it directly from any web or mobile app.
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The Lambda free tier includes 1M free requests per month and 400,000 GB-seconds of compute time per month.

15. From: https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/
The Lambda free tier includes 1M free requests per month and 400,000 GB-seconds of compute time per month.