Tris-Explorer

Tris Explorer is a Alexa Skill. Talk to Tris, she knows everything. just give her a random date and she will tell you everything that happened on that date in the past. get to know about interesting events that occurred on that date. also get to know the famous personalities who were born and died on that date.

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Tris Explorer

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Talk to Tris, she knows everything. just give her a random date and she will tell you everything that happened on that date in the past. get to know about interesting events that occurred on that date. also get to know the famous personalities who were born and died on that date.

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Testing

You can test this skill using an Amazon Echo device or at Echosim or reverb app on android and IOS. you can test this skill using:

  • You can open the skill by saying "Alexa, open tris explorer."

  • the skill will be invoked with introduction and then it will ask you for a random date.

  • after user said a random date tris will tell you differenr interesting events happened on the date in the past and then it will ask the user whether he/she wants the list of famous personalities born on that date and based on the input from the user the skill will either proceed further or will wxit.

-Similarly the skill will ask you whether he/she eants to know the list of famous persons died on that day.

Under the Hood

How Skill Works

  • Create an Alexa Skill in the Alexa Skill Developer Console and define the interaction models as well as the intent schema. This sets up the framework for the behavior of the skill.
  • Create an AWS Lambda function that interfaces with the skill and translates the various intents into requests that connects to your service. This lambda function is written in Node.js.

Skill setup

Front End

Setting up Your Alexa Skill in the Alexa Developer Console

Open Your developer account or click on the link given Amazon developer console.

  1. Create a new skill. name it Tris Explorer. under the model for skill select custom and click on create skill.

  2. Choose template start from scratch and click on choose.

Give the invocation name as Tris Explorer. under the invocation headline from the right side list.

  1. Click on the "JSON Editor" item under Dashboard on the left side of the skill builder.

  2. In the textfield provided, replace any existing code with the code provided in the Speech Assets/intentSchema.json and click on "Save Model".

  3. Click on the Save Model button, and then click on the Build Model button.

Setting Up A Lambda Function on Amazon Web Services

  1. Go to http://aws.amazon.com and sign in to the console and choose the Lambda service from the search box. AWS Lambda only works with the Alexa Skills Kit in two regions: US East (N. Virginia) and EU (Ireland).I have choosed Ireland but you can Choose any one of them.

  2. Click on the "Create function" button. Select "Blueprints", then choose the blueprint named "alexa-skill-kit-sdk-factskill". And give your function a name.

  3. Set up your Lambda function role to "lambda_basic_execution" and click on Create Function.

  4. Configure your trigger. Look at the column on the left called "Add triggers", and select Alexa Skills Kit from the list.

  5. After you create the function, the ARN value appears in the top right corner.

  6. Scroll down to the field called "Function code", and replace any existing code with the code provided in the src/index.js. Also make a new file in the same directory as index.js and name it wiki.js. Add the code given in src/wiki.js to it.

  7. Copy the ARN value. The ARN value should be in the top right corner.

Connecting Your Frontend with your Backend

  1. Go back to the Amazon Developer Portal and select your skill from the list.

  2. Open the "Endpoint" tab on the left side and select the "AWS Lambda ARN" option for your endpoint.

  3. copy the skill ID and paste it in the trigger section in your AWS Lammbda and paste the ARN copied to the default region just below your skill ID in the endpoint.

  4. Click Save endpoints

Your Skill is done with the setup part ad is ready to use! You can test it on https://echosim.io

Support

If you are stuck at any point, feel free to mail me at [email protected].

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