Babynames for Alexa

About

Baby names explorer based of social security public data for 2015 Project based of the alexa java samples

Docs

• alexa sdk kit

Setup

• build mvn assembly:assembly -DdescriptorId=jar-with-dependencies package
• upload to aws lambda the zip target/babynames-alexa-1.0-jar-with-dependencies.jar
• modify the id in supportedApplicationIds.add("amzn1.ask.skill.[id]"); for class BabyNamesSpeechletRequestStreamHandler.java

AWS console

If it timeout when creating the lambda function check this stackoverflow

• install with pip
• set up aws
• mv target/babynames-alexa-1.0-jar-with-dependencies.jar target/babynames-alexa-1.0-jar-with-dependencies.zip
• when you create it for the first time aws lambda create-function --function-name BabyNames --runtime java8 --handler babynames.BabyNamesSpeechletRequestStreamHandler --zip-file fileb://./target/babynames-alexa-1.0-jar-with-dependencies.zip --role [grab the role if from the aws console]
• to create the function aws lambda update-function-code --function-name BabyNames --zip-file fileb://./target/babynames-alexa-1.0-jar-with-dependencies.zip

TODO

• Add unit tests tests
• Extend the intent schema and utterance