https://github.com/mikeflynn/go-alexa

A collection of Amazon Echo / Alexa tools for Go development.
https://github.com/mikeflynn/go-alexa

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A collection of Amazon Echo / Alexa tools for Go development.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/mikeflynn/go-alexa
• Owner: mikeflynn
• License: mit
• Created: 2015-07-07T20:39:02.000Z (about 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2021-10-22T15:53:46.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-01-28T20:50:09.152Z (5 months ago)
• Topics: alexa, amazon, amazon-echo, golang
• Language: Go
• Size: 136 KB
• Stars: 256
• Watchers: 14
• Forks: 60
• Open Issues: 8
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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## `go-alexa`: A Go toolset for creating Amazon Alexa Skills

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The Amazon Echo, with it's voice assitant Alexa, is a surprisingly amazing tool. Having the power of voice recognition tied to the web ready at any time is quite powerful and now that Amazon has opened up a developer platform it's even more exciting!

Amazon has supplied packages for Java and Node.js (tied to the AWS Lamda platform) but I wanted to develop my skills in Go. As I moved through the process making my app work with Amazon's spec, a simple web framework that took care all the heavy lifting on security and crafting the response object formed. I'm looking forward to more Go-based tools getting created and living in this `go-alexa` bucket but for now the `skillserver` is the first tool.

Mike Flynn gave a talk about this library an conversational applications in general at the 2016 Strange Loop Conference: ["Exploring Conversational Interfaces with Amazon Alexa and Go"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDdE3PKy6mo)

### Tools

* [`skillserver`](skillserver/) - A framework to quickly create a skill web service that handles all of the Amazon requirements.

  * Example: [Jeopardy](skillserver/examples/jeopardy)

### Future Proposed Tools

* An Amazon Echo request simulator

* A library for Alexa responses

### Original Author

Mike Flynn ([@thatmikeflynn](http://twitter.com/thatmikeflynn))