Alexa Skill Development

Star Archives and Comic Book Guide

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Timeframe

1 month

Challenge

We wanted to understand how to produce effective interactions for voiced-based interfaces and natural language processing, so we decided to produce two Alexa skills around content which we are passionate about: Star Wars and comics.

Solution

Our Star Wars Alexa Skill, Star Archives, provides all kinds of information about the Star Wars universe; users can ask Alexa about galaxies, starships, weapons, and characters. To begin we created an interaction model on what users can ask Alexa. The schema considered everything we believed users would be willing to ask out loud and receive the information via “spoken” voice. Our Comic Book Guide Alexa Skill is nearly identical with respect to capabilities, techniques used, and challenges experienced.

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Results

We gained insights into how to construct voice interactions, and now Amazon Echo users can ask Alexa about the Star Wars universe–galaxies, starships, weapons, and characters–and the world of comic books, and our Star Archives and Comic Book Guide will provide the answers.

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