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I'm working on that bit. It seems Amazon depends on enough examples and typecasting phrases enough that it can target and separate meaning within each phrase. Since we're not doing that, the results can be quite poor. To combat this, Alexa will confirm with you the message that its about to send. This allows the user to cancel by saying \"stop\", \"cancel\", or \"no\".\n\n# Environment variables\nYou'll have to set environment variables on deployment in order to get Alexa to properly contact the person in question.\n\n* TARGET_HUMAN - Single name of which we refer to the human. This affects only the response - not the recognition and the targeting of the application via the intent system.\n* TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID - Twilio Account SID\n* TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN - Twilio Auth Token\n* PHONE_NUMBER - Which twilio phone number to text from\n\n\n# Installation\n\nThis all uses Amazon Web Services (Lambda) and Amazon Developer Services (Alexa). Unless you're particuarly gregarious we'll be within the free tier.\n\nWe're also using Twilio, and you'll have to put down some money for credits to get off of the free tier limitations.\n\n## Create a Twilio Account\nGet and take note of the Account SID and the Auth token.\n\n## Instal Twilio and zip it all up\nInstall twilio via:\n```\nnpm install\n```\nand then zip up the folder CONTENTS (not the folder itself) into a .zip\n\n## Create a Lambda function\nCreate a lambda function and make sure to note its ARN.\n\n1. Create a blank function\n2. Select Alexa Skills kit as the trigger\n3. Name the function and ensure its set to node 4.3\n4. Switch code entry type to \"Upload a .ZIP file\" and select your previously created archive\n5. Set the environment variables as per below\n6. Set the role to \"existing\" and then \"basic execution\"\n7. Create and take note of the function's ARN\n\n## Create the Alexa Skill\n\nHere is a page by page walk through of how to set up the Alexa skill.\n\n### Intents\nTake the content from the intents.json and put it into here.\n\n### Custom slot\nCreate a custom slot called message.\n\nNot needed, but enter some random messages. It trains Amazon's NLP (natural language processing) AI, but since we're using it as a generic catch all it really doesn't matter what you put here. I put:\n```\nHow are you doing?\nThe robots are attacking\nI think someone is listening to me\nNo one has your best interests in mind - especially not yourself.\n```\n\n### Sample Utterances\nI just have one:\n```\nSendMessageIntent {message}\n```\n\n### Publishing information\nDo nothing - we're not publishing it\n\n### Privacy \u0026 Compliance\nJust say no to everything\n\n# YOU'RE DONE\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fhlfshell%2Falexa-telephonic","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fhlfshell%2Falexa-telephonic","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fhlfshell%2Falexa-telephonic/lists"}