5. DISTRIBUTED MULTI VENDOR SYSTEM
▸ Nobody wants everything in their home from one supplier.
▸ Different Systems work in different ways
▸ There’s a market for services and products to glue stuff
together.
▸ Tech standards are good but its all about commercial
relationships.
9. “ALWAYS LISTENING??”
▸ The Echo uses a ‘wake word’
▸ The low level HW is always listening for this audio trigger
▸ Echo then records/streams your command to Amazons
Servers
▸ On silence/pause it stops and processes
▸ The wake word can be: Alexa, Amazon or Echo only
10. ALEXA ALL THE THINGS
Amazon Echo Dot Amazon Tap
Amazon Echo
Triby CoWatch HeadsUP
11. ALEXA VOICE SERVICE
▸ Amazon Developer API’s to add an Alexa Client to
‘anything’
1. Record Speech
2. Send to API
3. Playback Response
12. “THE $10 ECHO”
▸ Started out by putting Alexa onto a CHIP
▸ Uses a Physical Button instead of Wake Word
▸ Ported to The Raspberry Pi as AlexaPi
https://github.com/sammachin/alexapi
13. WHAT CAN ALEXA DO
▸ Set Alarms & Timers
▸ Control Devices
▸ Music /Audiobooks Playback
▸ Ask Questions
▸ Order Pizza & Uber!
▸ Anything you can write!!!!
14. ALEXA SKILLS KIT
▸ These are Alexa’s ‘Apps’
▸ Launched Aug 2015
▸ The store still has very limited functionality
▸ Orchestration of Multiple Apps on one Alexa account is
not quite right yet
15. ALEXA SKILLS KIT
▸ Skills are best built on Lambda but can be your own HTTPS
server
▸ Alexa passes the app a JSON object with commands
▸ App returns text to be spoken or audio file
https://bit.ly/alexalambda
16. ALEXA + TESLA + SMART HOME + GOLANG = WINNING THE INTERNET
http://www.teslarati.com/tesla-model-s-voice-command-amazon-echo/