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Lili
Lili

Reputation: 23

How do I create an Alexa skill that gives the answers from my own database

I am learning about Alexa skills and eventually I want to create a skill although I need alexa's responds to the users being from a database that I am going to build. I was wondering if someone can give me some tips or recommend me a tutorial or reference which I can learn from.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 7498

Answers (1)

davidgyoung
davidgyoung

Reputation: 64941

Here's a tutorial I wrote that covers how to build an Alexa Skill that returns data from a lookup table embedded in an AWS Lambda:

http://www.davidgyoungtech.com/2018/04/23/building-voice-bots-with-amazon-alexa

What you want to do requires only one additional step: access the data from a database instead of the embedded lookup table. For that, it all depends on what kind of database you want to use. If you stick with Amazon's AWS tools and want to use their Dynamo DB to host your data, you can use the ScoreKeeper reference app to see how you read data from a AWS Dynamo DB from a Lambda: https://github.com/georgechapman/alexa-skills/tree/master/samples/scoreKeeper

Upvotes: 5

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