Resources - OneGC Alexa Proof-of-Concept

Alexa Proof-of-Concept Code Repositories

Thomas Gohard (TBS, OneGC)

• Alexa Skill - Hello, World
• Alexa Skill - Connect to DynamoDB
• Script to import the Parks Canada Fees Open Data set into DynamoDB
• Alexa Skill - Parks Canada Fees PoC

Pascal Chahine (TBS OneGC Micro-mission)

• Alexa PoC Wiki

Ainsley Bernard (TC)

• Alexa Skill - Transport Canada Vehicle Recall Information PoC
• Open Canada - Vehicle Recalls Database
• Script to import the Vehicle Recalls Open Data set into DynamoDB

Paul Coyte (HC)

• Alexa Skill - Health Canada's Recalls and Safety Alerts PoC
• Script for uploading recalls data into DynamoDB
• Lambda script used to upload JSON pushed from Kinesis to Elasticsearch
• Open Data - Recalls and Safety Alerts

Boysie Tupaz (CRA)

• Alexa Skill - Canada Child Benefit Program PoC
• Script to import Canada Child Benefit (CCB) payment dates into DynamoDB

Helpful links

• List of blog posts, documentation, and other helpful material to start improving your Skill
• Notifications Overview (Amazon Alexa)
• Notifications Interface (v1.0) (Amazon Alexa)
• Alexa Skills - Developer Voice And Vote - Feature requests
• Alexa Developer Forum
• Alexa workshop
• Build Voice-Enabled Experiences with Alexa (slideshare)
• Building Alexa Skills from Scratch videos
• Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Reference
• How to Design Voice User Interfaces