Photo Recall

Load beautiful photos by voice command

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Inspiration

Imagine when someone wants to show you a photo on their phone but it takes forever as they scroll through tons of photos to find the one they want you to see. Wouldn't it be nice if instead you could just retrieve photos by voice command?". That question was the inspiration for Photo Recall.

What it does

Photo Recall allows you to retrieve beautiful public domain photos using simple phrases like "show me food photos" plus lets you load your own photos and (short) videos with phrases you choose like "show me the office holiday party photos".

How I built it

I used APL and Node.js and REST calls to my server running in the AWS cloud as an EC2 instance with a SQL database.

Challenges I ran into

I would really like a slideshow of images and videos and when a video was encountered the slideshow would pause while the video auto-played but I could not find a way to do this.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

I got it to work and am proud to be one of the first photo-centric skills.

What I learned

I learned that life is tough on the bleeding edge. We could really use better documentation or even just more code samples and we could also really use a lot more help with discovery!

What's next for Photo Recall

Add support for many more photo categories like "show me fall photos" or "show me animal photos".

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With Photo Recall, you can take a photo or video with your smartphone, tag it with a voice command like "pet photos" and view it from your Amazon Echo Show (e.g. "Alexa, ask Photo Recall to show me my pet photos"). You can have 7 photos at a time tagged with the same voice command only the latest 7 are kept. Add a date if you need more (e.g. "pet photos from May 2018").

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