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The Alex History buff skill

This Alexa skill calls Wikipedia to get history info about a specific day in history

This example skill demonstrates the following features:

  • logging level setting (debug)
  • custom intent
  • Amazon intent
  • use of slots
  • conditional response
  • stack dialog manager
  • required fields processing
  • default intent handler
  • voice response (ssml) with variable content
  • provide a card title and card content creation

Prerequisites

Before starting make sure you have satisfied the prerequisites. http://askamy.net/prerequisites.html

Deployment

  1. Update arn:aws:iam::**********:role/alexa_lambda_role in cli_config.json. Open a terminal window and change into the directory for this skill and edit cli_config.json. If you don't have a role you can create one with the following command: ask-amy-cli create_role --role-name alexa_skill_role

    •  $ cd xxxxxxx/ask_amy_example_skills/alexa_04_history_buff_skill
 $ vim cli_config.json

  2. Deploy the code to AWS Lambda

    • Note: Initial deploy should use (create). 
      $ ask-amy-cli create_lambda --deploy-json-file cli_config.json
    • Note: Subsequent deploys should use (deploy). 
      $ ask-amy-cli deploy_lambda --deploy-json-file cli_config.json
    • Take note of the "FunctionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-1:**********2273:function:alexa_*****"

  3. Create a new skill in your Amazon Development Account.

    • Select Create Skill at https://developer.amazon.com/alexa/console/ask

    • Enter a Skill Name (history buff) and select custom as the skill type and Provision your own as the method to host the backend. Then select Create a skill.

    • On the Choose a template page select select Start from Scratch. and click Choose.

    • Select the JSON Editor (Note: the JSON Editor is in the left menu pane) Drag & drop the interaction_model.json on to the new skill. Click Save and Build Model.

    • Select Endpoint select AWS Lambda ARN copy the Lambda arn arn:aws:lambda:us-east-1:******** (Note: It was returned in step two above) to Default Region select Save Endpoint.

    • Select Test tab (Note: Test is in the menu bar at the top of the page). On the test page enable testing by toggling the Off/Development drop down.

"Congratulations you have deployed a new skill!"

Note: If you want to check the lambda logs you can use the below

$ ask-amy-cli logs --log-group-name /aws/lambda/alexa_history_buff_skill
Credit

Many of the example skills were first published as Java or Node.js code by Amazon https://github.com/amzn. However since Amazon created the new interaction model the original code is no longer available.