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Spices
Inspiration
I love cooking and there were many times I used ingredients/herbs/spices which I haven't seen or used previously in my dishes.Adding wrong ingredient could make a dish from delicious to humilicious infront of guests. I thought this problem could be face by many people like me around the world. Since I know how to make Alexa skills I thought why not make a skill using APL(Amazon presentation language) as no skill was available in the market/store which could show the user about the spices/herb and its photo. I am from india and we used many spices in our food so from here the skills got its name as 'Indian Spices' Alexa skill. This is how 'Indian spices' skill idea was generated .
What it does
The skill will show the user about the spice/herb and its photo which the user wants to find.
How I built it
I know how to make basic alexa skills and learnt the APL(Amazon presentation language) from the video presented by @cwillycs and various blogs.
- Searched the web for various ingredient/spices/herbs used in food.
- Collected their photo and information
- Made seperate json folder for each ingredient
- Called the json file from main index.js file when that utterance was occured and shows it to user screen.
Challenges I ran into
The main challenge was to show the information on various alexa devices using APL.Since i was using it for first time it took me while to get hang of it.Later I found out that it as simple as making a webpage using html , css and some APL terms like pager,container,list etc.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
I am proud of that my skill would be helpfull to fellow user who are interested/keen to make dishes/food at home.
What I learned
I learned APL , voice first visual experience.
What's next for Indian Spices
- I want to add more items/ingredients/spices/herbs.
- I want to add more information related to the ingredient.
- I want to add multi cuisine ingredient.
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