Laugh Party

Laugh Party Logo
Random Laugh Syllables

Inspiration

Laugh Party is one of my favorite party games. A few people gather in a circle and start pretending to laugh, spontaneously emitting various noises to prompt others to laugh out loud. Soon, everyone in the circle is laughing and having a great time! Laugh Party is an excellent mood setter and fun for all ages. The more people the better!

What it does

In this skill, Alexa is a fellow player in the classic party game where monotone "hahas" turn into a laughing riot! Just say, "Alexa ask Laugh Party to have a laugh party" and she'll join in on the fun.

Laughs are randomly generated, so the party's different every time!

You can also say, "Alexa, ask Laugh Party to play a random laugh" and she'll emit a single laugh. It's great for telling jokes!

How I built it

I hosted my code with Amazon Lambda and created intents using the Alexa Skill Kit. To generate laughs, I first created a list of laugh syllables. For each laugh, a random syllable is picked and repeated 1-5 times,with randomly generated pitch, speed, and interval for more spontaneous laughs. When Laugh Party is called, Alexa starts consecutively speaking these randomly generated laughs.

Challenges I ran into

I initially had trouble getting multiple laughs to play. I wanted laugh party to recursively laugh, but couldn't figure out how to do this because the recursive call would not be reached after the first response was sent. I ended up sending a long response speech of generated laughs instead.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

I'm proud to have been able to make a working Alexa skill of one of my favorite things after doing the codecademy tutorial. In addition, one of the first things I was considering doing was creating a pre-determined list of laughs to have Alexa speak. This version of laugh party uses randomly generated laugh noises, so the laugh party is different (and more fun!) every time!