Speak to your computer - Build a Trivia game using Amazon Alexa and AWS Lambda

Rouven Weßling

Friday 17 February 2017 from 10:20 to 11:20

Talk in English - UK at PHP UK Conference 2017
Short URL: https://joind.in/talk/3745e (QR-Code (opens in new window))

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Growing up with Knight Rider I was sure that we'd all be talking to our computers in no time. Imagine my disappointment when I first tried a dictation app in the 90s - gruesome. Things have changed and now we're all able to have something resembling a conversation with our cell phones. But you couldn't teach it any new tricks unless your work for Apple, Google or Microsoft - how frustrating.

Now with Amazon Alexa we as developer can finally create voice interfaces for our own applications. I'd like to show you how to do just that by creating an Alexa Skills Kit using an AWS Lambda function and a RESTful API to have our very own voice based Trivia game.

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Gary Fuller at 11:33 on 17 Feb 2017 (via Web2 LIVE)

This talk has whetted my appetite for spending some time learning about Alexa. I also learned that live coding is hard (much like pair coding when a vastly experienced developer is looking over your shoulder... scary stuff). No PHP in the talk, but definitely something worth learning more about.

Davo Smith at 20:19 on 17 Feb 2017 (via Web2 LIVE)

Interesting insight into working with Amazon Alexa. Totally unrelated to PHP or anything I'm likely to use in my day job, but still good, geeky fun.

Luis Lopes at 15:45 on 24 Feb 2017 (via Web2 LIVE)

Was really a fun presentation. Really motivated me to use Lambda and make my own games / apis / skills for Alexa. Lots of laughs with good / basic / quick way to get started, what we need more? :)