Note: This is part of a series on writing Alexa Skills in C#, but the Skill setup information is universal & language agnostic (as long as you’re using Amazon Lambda). So we’ve set up our AWS account for Visual Studio, and written up our Alexa skill in C#. Time to deploy and start testing! Right-click…
In the last piece, I walked through setting up an AWS account and putting together the policies needed to deploy your code to Amazon’s Lambda service. Now we’re going to write our code. Complete project code on github This will be a C# port of the “SpaceGeek” Alexa Skill sample (which was actually pulled down…
The Amazon Echo is amazing and you should have one. Or at least an Amazon Dot, which offers the voice interface of the Echo without the built-in speaker. I have a whole “voice-interfaces a part of the glorious dawn of ubiquitous computing” thing that sounds best with a couple of beers, but this post is going…