An Alexa Skill for playing Adventures in Odyssey Episodes!

AlexaAIO is a skill demonstrating audio playback on Alexa. It is designed to run on AWS Lambda and is ready to deploy with python-lambda. All episode data is gathered from aiowiki.com.

First, install python-lambda pip3 install --user python-lambda. Once that's finished, make a new directory to store AlexaAIO and in that directory run lambda init. This will create a virtualenv and some configuration files for uploading to AWS.

Activate the virtualenv. To install the requirements run pip install -r requirements.txt You can now use lambda invoke -v to test the function with event.json as the input.

To function fully, the program needs to store information about the play state (time and episode) for each user. Create a role on AWS with minimally, lambda_basic_execution and access to a DynamoDB table which will store this information. Change SESSION_TABLE_NAME at the top of AIOspeechlet.py to the name of your new table, and REGION_NAME to the AWS region your will be using. The program is now functional. YAY! You can create a config.yaml (see config.yaml.example) with the credentials for an AWS account with permission to upload to lambda, and then run lambda deploy to upload it to your AWS.

The Alexa Voice Service translates spoken phrases into intents with slots, which it passes to an https API endpoint, which processes those inputs and returns a response. The Alexa service does this by analyzing example mappings from utterances to intents, which are collectively an interaction model. On the Alexa Developer website, intents can be added one by one via a GUI, or as a JSON document.

The interaction model for this skill is included here.

In the AWS console, browse to the lambda function created for AlexaAIO. Add Alexa Skills Kit as a trigger, and jot down the ARN in the top right. If the role you assigned to AlexaAIO has the correct permissions, and your triggers are set correctly, you will see DynamoDB and CloudWatch on the right as "Resources the function's role has access to" and Alexa Skills Kit on the left as the only trigger.

Navigate to the [Alexa Developer Website] (https://developer.amazon.com/alexa) and open the skills console. From there you can create a skill, and paste in the starter interaction model. When asked for an endpoint, select Lambda and paste in the ARN for the Lambda function you noted earlier. At this point the skill should be fully functional and able to be invoked on Alexa devices tied to your account as "Adventures in Odyssey".