awesome-amazon-alexa
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🗣Curated list of awesome resources for the Amazon Alexa platform.
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SDKs/Tools
alexa-skills-kit-js
The Alexa Skills Kit SDK for Node.js helps you get a skill up and running quickly, letting you focus on skill logic instead of boilerplate code
jargon-sdk-nodejs
The Jargon SDK makes it easy for skill developers to manage their runtime content and to support multiple languages from within their skill
AVS-server
Node.js web server for interacting with the Alexa Voice Service
AVS-client
Front-end application for interacting with Alexa Voice Service
SSMLOL
MP3 file validator for Alexa SSML <audio> tags
Jovo Framework
Build cross-platform apps for Alexa and Google Home
Alexa Smart Home SDK
An Alexa Skill Generator for IoT
- AssistantJS
TypeScript framework to build cross-platform voice applications
- alexa-avs-sample-app
This project provides a step-by-step walkthrough to help you build a hands-free Alexa Voice Service (AVS) prototype in 60 minutes
alexa-skills-kit-sdk-for-java
SDK and example code for building voice-enabled skills for the Amazon Echo
ask-alexa-pykit
A minimalist SDK for developing skills for the Amazon Echo's ASK
alexa-skill-kit
Library for effortless Alexa Skill development with AWS Lambda
alexa-home
Using Amazon Echo to control the home!
go-alexa
A collection of Amazon Echo / Alexa tools for Go development
AlexaAndroid
A library and sample app to abstract access to the Amazon Alexa service for Android applications
arduino-esp8266-alexa-wemo-switch
Amazon Alexa + WeMos switch made with Arduino D1 Mini
MacLexa
Put Amazon's Alexa in the Mac System Tray, uses Alexa Voice Service and built with Swift
Alexa-Chromecast-Skill-2.0
Allows Amazon Alexa to control Google Chromecast, designed for Raspberry Pi
AlexaSkillsKit.NET
.NET library that simplifies Alexa skills development; same object model as Amazon's AlexaSkillsKit for Java
alexa-rubykit
Amazon Echo Alexa's App Kit Ruby Implementation
SwiftOnLambda
Use Swift to define an Amazon Lambda function, and an Alexa Custom Skill
alexa-skills-dotnet
An Amazon Alexa Skills SDK for .NET
ralyxa
A Ruby framework for interacting with Amazon Alexa
alexacast
Chromecast support for Amazon Alexa
- alexa-assistant
Implementation of the Google Assistant SDK as an Alexa skill
haaska
Home Assistant Alexa Skill Adapter
Alexa Skills Kit SDK for Java
SDK and example code for building voice-enabled skills for the Amazon Echo
Aleksa
Aleksa is a small framework for writing Alexa Skills in Kotlin
Alexa Skills Kit for Python
Alexa Skills Kit for Python
python-alexa
A Simple Python Library to make Alexa skill development easy when aimed used in Lambda
Java Alexa Skills Kit SDK (Lambda)
An Amazon Alexa Skills SDK for Java
- vsms-skeleton
Voice Skill Management System (Skeleton)
phoice/phlexa
PHP Library for Amazon Alexa voice applications
amazon-alexa-php
Amazon Alexa PHP Library
alexa-app
Set of classes to make creating Amazon Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) applications easier with Laravel and Lumen
Virtual Alexa
Alexa Emulator for Unit-Testing
- ASK CLI
The ASK Command Line Interface (ASK CLI) is a tool for you to manage your Alexa skills and related AWS Lambda functions
NPM Modules
intent-utterance-file-parser
Parse an intent utterance file, like the Alexa Skills Kit Sample Utterance file
intent-utterance-expander
Expand custom utterance slots of phrases to use with Alexa Skills Utterances
intent-utterance-generator
Alexa Skills Kit Sample Utterances generator
alexa-utterances
Generate expanded utterances for Amazon Alexa from a template string
alexa-voice-service.js
Library for interacting with Alexa Voice Service (AVS) in the browser
alexa-grammar
Utilities and framework code for building valid grammars and skill kits for Amazon's Alexa voice agent service
hapi-alexa
Hapi plugin for building Amazon Alexa apps on Node.js
alexa-app
A framework for Alexa (Amazon Echo) apps using Node.js
alexa-nodekit
Amazon Echo Alexa's App Kit Node.js Implementation
generator-alexa-skill
A Yeoman generator for scaffolding an Alexa Skill for AWS Lambda
expressive
A minimalist framework for Alexa Skill Kit apps running on Amazon Lambda
wavelength
Framework for building Alexa Skills with AWS Lambda
alexa-uncensor
Bypass Alexa (Amazon Echo) Text-to-Speech censorship
ssml-builder
Easily create SSML without all the hassle of string concatenation
alexa-verifier-middleware
An express middleware that verifies HTTP requests sent to an Alexa skill are sent from Amazon
alexia
A Framework for creating Amazon Echo skills using Node.js
fluent-ssml
Reusable, testable SSML templates for Typescript or plain Node.js
jovo-framework-nodejs
Build cross-platform Voice Apps for Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant
chatskills
Run and debug Alexa skills on the command-line. Create bots. Run them in Slack. Run them anywhere!
alexa-utterances
Generate expanded utterances for Amazon Alexa from a template string
alexa-mp3-validator
A node module for validating your MP3 files to be used in your Amazon Alexa skill
node-alexa-smapi
A node.js client library for using the Alexa Skill Management API
jargon-sdk-nodejs
The Jargon SDK makes it easy for skill developers to manage their runtime content and to support multiple languages from within their skill
Skills
ASK-HackerNews
An Alexa Skills Kit app to read the top Hacker News headlines
- Alexa-ChromeControl
Control your chrome browser via your Amazon Echo
alexa-skill-jenkins
Alexa Skill that tells Who broke the Jenkins build
ASK-fortune
Read a random, hopefully interesting, adage
- gmail-on-alexa
Gmail skill for Amazon Alexa
alexa-plex
Alexa (Amazon Echo) app for interacting with a Plex Server and controlling client playback
trash-talk
100 greatest movie insults of all time to motivate you
AlexaMakeMeASandwich
Chrome Extension that turns your Amazon Echo into a Sandwich Artisan
LIFX-Alexa-Skill
An Alexa Skill created for the Amazon Echo that allows you to control your LIFX Lightbulbs
EarthquakeInfoSkill
Amazon Echo (Alexa) skill to read out recent earthquakes in the world
alexaHomeboy
Alexa Lambda Function for communicating with IFTTT maker channel
RokuAlexaLambdaSkill
An Alexa Skill that allows voice control of your Roku
alexa-sonos
An Alexa app to control a Sonos
RottingTomatoes
Alexa skill that tells you various info about movies
ktd-piggy-bank
An Alexa Skill to query the value of a Piggy Bank in Numerous
- dominos-alexa-skill
An Alexa Skill to track your Domino's orders
bf-helper
An Alexa Skill to help Basic Fantasy RPG players with various tasks involved in setting up characters and navigating rules
EchoMovieDialog
Amazon Echo skill: Alexa engages in a dialog using movie quotes
alexa-coho
Sample code for building skill adapters for Alexa Connected Home using the Lighting API
asana-alexa-skill
Alexa Skill for Asana
alexa-against-humanity
Ask Alexa to randomly pick white or black cards from Cards Against Humanity
echo-venmo
Amazon Echo Skill for Venmo
Uber-Alexa-Skill
An Alexa skill for calling an Uber ride
npmAlexa
Alexa app to ping NPM API
1minuteMindfullnessSkill
Skill code for Alexa Skill: 1 minute Mindfulness
codeword-alexa-skill
Generate code words using Alexa
alexa-league
Alexa Skill for Riot API
alexa-astro
Ask your Amazon Echo about the night sky
alexa_metar
Read ADDS METARs aloud on an Amazon Echo
alexa-qrz
An Alexa Skill to lookup FCC license information
- alexa-airportinfo
This skill uses the FAA API to report the current weather, and any delays, for a given airport code
alexa-ha
An Amazon Echo skill for controlling your Home Automation via voice
alexia-starter-kit
Starter Kit project with sample Amazon Echo skill created using Alexia Framework. Contains eslint config, sample intent structure, unit tests and more
geemusic
A bridge between Google Music and Amazon's Alexa
alex-robinhood-skill
Unoffical Alexa Skill for Robinhood
Boilerplates
skill-sample-nodejs-fact
This Alexa sample skill is a template for a basic fact skill
skill-sample-nodejs-audio-player
An Alexa Skill Sample showing how to play long form audio in 3P-skills
skill-sample-nodejs-petmatch
This Alexa Skill Kit sample shows how to build a skill using Dialog Management and Entity Resolution
skill-sample-nodejs-team-lookup
An Alexa Skill Sample showing how to build a team lookup skill
skill-sample-nodejs-city-guide
An Alexa Skill Sample showing how to build a skill featuring a single city's landmarks and news
skill-sample-nodejs-audio-player
An Alexa Skill Sample showing how to play long form audio in 3P-skills
skill-sample-nodejs-highlowgame
This Alexa sample skill is a template for a basic high-low game skill
skill-sample-nodejs-howto
This tutorial will walk first-time Alexa skills developers through all the required steps involved in creating a parameter-based skill using a template called ‘Minecraft Helper’
skill-sample-nodejs-feed
An Alexa Skill Template to help create skills that read RSS/Atom feeds
skill-sample-nodejs-decision-tree
An Alexa Skill Sample for building a skill that can take a user through a decision tree, like "What should I eat for breakfast?"
skill-sample-nodejs-calendar-reader
An Alexa Skill Sample showing how to import calendar data from an .ICS file
skill-sample-nodejs-trivia
This Alexa sample skill is a template for a trivia style game with score keeping
skill-sample-nodejs-quiz-game
An Alexa Skill Sample showing how to build a quiz game skill
skill-sample-nodejs-salesforce
This project demonstrates how to build an Alexa private skill that integrates with your Salesforce data, utilizing account linking and a personal voice code
Prototyping
- VoiceX
Prototyping sample dialogs for voice user interfaces
- Sayspring
Create interactive voice prototypes for Amazon Alexa and Google Home
- BotSociety
Preview & prototype your voice interfaces
- Skillinator
Prototype Alexa Skills for Alexa Skills Kit SDK for JavaScript / Node.js (Lambda)
- Storyline
Create and publish Amazon Alexa skills without coding with visual interface and pre-build templates
- Smartly.AI
All in one platform for your voice and chatbot projects
- PullString
Design, prototype, and publish voice apps for Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant and IoT devices
- Conversable
Conversable is the enterprise conversational intelligence platform for creating intuitive, on-demand, automated experiences on any messaging or voice channel
- kitt.ai
KITT.AI offers Conversational Understanding as a Service with ChatFlow and customizable wake word detection on embedded devices
Analytics
- Dashbot
Actionable Analytics for Amazon Alexa
- Opearlo
Opearlo is a voice design agency that offers Alexa skill design and development, along with Opearlo Analytics, a platform for insights into Alexa skill usage
- Alpine.ai
Alpine is a pioneer in voice experience analytics, and is the most widely used product analytics service for Alexa skills
- WitLingo
Witlingo is a SaaS product company that enables skills developers to access analytics, diagnostics, and discovery tools to help them improve their skills
Utilities
Alexa-Utterance-Generator
A website that allows you to generate numerous utterances with a simplistic GUI
- Alexa Smart Home Payload V3 Generator
A website that generates smart home v3 discovery payloads
- Skillinator
A website to help generate Lambda template code from an Interaction Model JSON file. Service created by Amazon staff
- Skill Code Generator
A tool to help generate Lambda Boilerplate code in ASK SDK v2 with options of Variety greeting, Display Template Response
- Audio converter (Storyline)
This simple tool helps you to convert your MP3s into the right format for Amazon Alexa skills. It works for Google Actions too
- Audio converter (Jovo)
Convert MP3 files for using in Amazon Alexa Skills
- Tophonetics
A free International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) phonetics generator for your SSML in Amazon Alexa Skills
Monitoring
- Bespoken
Bespoken provides monitoring and testing tools for Alexa skills (and Google Actions). Our platform keeps track to make sure your skill is working correctly, and alerts you when it is not
- VoiceLabs.com - Testing and Monitoring Alexa skills
VoiceLabs is a free testing and monitoring platform for Alexa skills and Google Actions
Newsletters
- ASK Dev Weekly
Subscribe to a hand picked round up of the best Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) development links every week
- Hearing Voices
This week's news about voice computing apps, delivered directly to your inbox
- Alexa Developer
Latest Amazon Alexa news and IoT and voice industry trends
- Love My Echo
Things To Ask Alexa, how-tos, tips, tricks, etc
- VoiceBot
The latest news about Amazon Alexa, Google Home, Google Deep Mind, Apple Siri, Microsoft Cortana, IBM Watson and more
- Voice Dev Rocks
A weekly curated publication full of interesting, relevant links, brought to you by the Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant and Microsoft Cortana Slack communities
- Talking to Computers
A monthly newsletter about building for voice, on Alexa, Google Assistant, and elsewhere for developers, designers, and the tech-curious
Podcasts
- Alexa Dev Chat
The podcasts include Alexa news, developer tips, and interviews with Alexa developers and Alexa employees
- VoiceBot Podcasts
Gather in one place the most important news and commentary about all things voice web
- VoiceFirst.FM
A podcast network devoted to voice-first technology
Blogs
- Love My Echo
Love My Echo is the first consumer-oriented site dedicated to the Amazon Echo: what it is, what it does, and how to get the most from it
- VoiceBot
One of the main news sources about voice industry and Amazon Alexa
- Jargon Blog
The Jargon Blog releases weekly updates on voice 101 and product news
Books
- Designing Voice User Interfaces: Principles of Conversational Experiences
How to design voice user interfaces
- How To Program - Amazon Echo: Design, Development and Testing Alexa Skills
How To Program for the Amazon Alexa
- Developing Amazon Alexa Games: A Game Designer’s Handbook
A Game Designer’s Handbook
- Voice Applications for Alexa and Google Assistant
This book teaches you how to design, build, and share voice apps. - In this insightful guide, you’ll get a solid foundation in modern voice technologies
Tutorials
- Alexa Voice Service (AVS) with cURL
Tutorial on interacting with Alexa Voice Service over cURL
- Alexa Voice Service (AVS) Authentication
Tutorial on Alexa Voice Service authentication
- How to develop an Alexa Skill
Tutorial on creating an Alexa Skill
- How to create an Alexa Skill using Alexia Framework
Tutorial on using the Alexia framework
- How to create a cross-platform voice app using Assistant.js
Tutorial on using Assistant.js
Videos
- AWS re:Invent 2015 | (MBL301) Creating Voice Experiences Using Amazon Alexa
Learn about creating good user experiences on Alexa
- AWS re:Invent 2015 | (MBL310) Alexa Voice Service Under the Hood
Learn more about Alexa in-depth
- How to create your own Flash Briefing skill for Amazon Alexa
Create your own flash briefing skill
- How to Publish Your Alexa Skill to all the English-speaking Regions
Publish your Alexa skill
- Dabble Lab
Weekly videos on building custom skills for Amazon Alexa and related topics
- Building Voice Apps Using Amazon Alexa
Build smooth voice-activated apps for Echo and other Alexa-aware devices
- Build for Echo Show
Learn to develop multimodal skills for Echo Show
Courses
- Introduction to Voice Design with Amazon's Alexa
Introduction to Alexa Voice Design
- Cakewalk - Build an engaging Alexa Skill
Build an enaging Alexa Skill from scratch right up to certification
Communities
- Unofficial Alexa Slack
A group of chat channels focusing on Amazon Alexa enabled hardware and software. Developers, designers, marketers, business people, hobbyists, students, and other professionals involved in technology are welcome
- Alexa Developers Slack-- India Community
A group of chat channels focusing on Amazon Alexa Skill development in India. From student developers to Alexa Evangelists at Amazon, all are here to help you
- Storyline community
Facebook community of Alexa Developers built around the Storyline, tool for creating voice apps without coding
- Alexa Dev Days
Alexa Dev Days are free, interactive events from Amazon and sponsored by Intel. Engage in hands-on sessions where you will learn to create voice experiences and hear the latest on UI design and industry trends. Learners of all levels can join us for training sessions, workshops, live demos, and networking with Alexa experts and your peers
Influencers
- Influencers
A list of Amazon Alexa influencers
Conferences
- Voice Summit
VOICE Summit sponsored by Amazon Alexa is the world's largest voice-tech conference
- Alexa VoxCon
Amazon Alexa's Conference on All Things Voice
Jobs
- Find Voice Jobs
Website to find jobs in VUI Domain
Easter Eggs
- Alexa Easter Eggs
A list of Alexa easter eggs
Fundraising
- Alexa Fund
The Alexa Fund provides up to $100 million in venture capital funding to fuel voice technology innovation
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