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Building an Amazon Echo Skill #5

Closed jakerella closed 7 years ago

jakerella commented 8 years ago

Talk Proposal Template

Your name: Jordan Kasper

Your idea: Building an Amazon Echo skill is extremely simple, if a bit cumbersome. If you're not familiar, the Echo is an always-on home automation unit that allows developers to extend its functionality with "skills". These skills get the benefit of Amazon's full speech analysis engine and work through a simple JSON web API. In this talk I'll cover how we can use Node.js to write the skill (a small web app) and what else we need to do to get up and running. You don't need to own an Echo to write a skill... although they sure are fun to play with!

Approx length: Probably a full-session talk (45 minutes or so). I could cut this down to a smaller slot if necessary though.

I'd be available any month except September.

danmactough commented 8 years ago

@jakerella 7/21? 😁

jakerella commented 8 years ago

Sigh... I might be able to. I don't have much time to prep. I don't actually have a "talk" on this. I've just done it, so I could talk about it. If you really need me to I can... but I'd prefer to have more time to prep.

danmactough commented 8 years ago

Ok, @jakerella. Let's pencil this for August 18, then.

jakerella commented 8 years ago

Sweet. I'm down for that.

danmactough commented 8 years ago

👍

jakerella commented 8 years ago

We on for August? Want to put this on the calendar if so... but I'm also cool with doing this later if you have something else coming in.

danmactough commented 8 years ago

We on for August? Want to put this on the calendar if so... but I'm also cool with doing this later if you have something else coming in.

Yeah, I think so. If we do #6, it would be in addition to your talk on 8/18.

jakerella commented 8 years ago

Cool... looks like you were targeting 9/1 for #6 though? FYI, my content can easily fill a full talk. I can most likely fit it into 40 minutes... 30 minutes would be tight, but possible.

danmactough commented 8 years ago

Sorry. I was unclear. I meant to say: If we do #6 on 9/1, it would be in addition to your talk on 8/18. 😄

jakerella commented 8 years ago

Aaaah. Coolio.

danmactough commented 8 years ago

@jakerella Is this part of your talk? alexa/alexa-skills-kit-sdk-for-nodejs

jakerella commented 8 years ago

I'm going to mention it... but that sdk is only for running on Lambda, which I do not. I'll be coming at it from a much more generic perspective.

danmactough commented 8 years ago

Cool 😎

jakerella commented 8 years ago

🍆

danmactough commented 7 years ago

this happened - https://www.meetup.com/node-dc/events/233285730/