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Chuck Aguilar
Chuck Aguilar

Reputation: 2048

Create a Radio Station on Alexa

I'm new developing Alexa skills. I've just followed some tutorials and customized them a little bit.

I followed this tutorial, and it works nicely.

However, I was listening to a local radio station of my State (Antenne Bayern), which has an Alexa Skill and I was wondering if I could do something like that.

In the tutorial I linked, you can play a "podcast" and there, you can play different songs of the postcard. But now, I would like that when you go to the skill "Alexa, start AudioPlayer" you have two options, either "live radio" or a podcast list.

If you decide the live radio, alexa begins to stream the live transmission, if you decide the podcast list, then you have to decide which podcast. And I would also like, that you have to decide the song in the podcast (as in the AudioPlayer tutorial)

I mean, I would like something like this: 

{
    "Live Radio": play_live_transmission(),
    "Podcast List": {
        "First Podcast": {
            "First Song": play_song_1(),
            "Second Song": play_song_2(),
        },
        "Second Podcast": {
            "First Song": play_song_3(),
            "Second Song": play_song_4(),
        }
    }
}

I know how to play the songs, but I don't know how should be the skill configured to have a structure like that.

I was reading this post and I notice that he uses "GetStatus", "GetElevators" and "GetTrainTimes" with a list inside, and all that in the "intents".

Maybe I should do something like that. But I don't have any idea.

Maybe someone tried to do something similar and could help me. Maybe a documentation or an idea how should I write the skill.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1315

Answers (1)

Chuck Aguilar
Chuck Aguilar

Reputation: 2048

I did it with flask-ask. I create an intent with a list of emissions. Then, when the user says "Alexa, start Radio with some emission" it searches the links of the emission. With this tutorial it's quite easy to do it.

Upvotes: 1

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