Alexa-Projects
The project contains the Alexa Practice projects for Beginners ( Python - Flask Ask)
Project 1 : Alexa Word Game Level : Beginner Effort : 2 hour
To be honest, I spent more time to get this word game working as I am new to Python Programming and Alexa. I faced issues (see below) while installing the Flask-ask package in my machine and then understaning the Alexa : Intent , Slot and Utterences. Once I understood , it looked very simple program.
The App works as below :
1. Me: Alexa , Play Word Game
2. Alexa : Hello There, Would you like to play the word game
3. Me. : Lets Play
4. Alexa : The Word Starts with the letter - {a...z}
5. Me : Is it {....} ?
If the guess is correct :
6. Alexa : Supper , you guessed it right. The word is {...}
If the guess is InCorrect :
7. Alex : Sorry It is correct. Do you want Clue ?
8. Me : First Clue Please?
9. Alex : { .....} Ex : It is wild animal.
10. Me : Is it {...} ?
If the guess is correct :
11. Alexa : Supper , you guessed it right. The word is {...}
If the guess is InCorrect :
12. Alex : Sorry It is correct. Do you want Clue ?
13. Me : Second Clue Please?
14. Alex : { .....} Ex : It is an National Animal of India.
15. Me : Is it {....} ?
If the guess is correct :
16. Alexa : Supper , you guessed it right. The word is {...}
If the guess is InCorrect :
17. Alexa : Sorry Better luck next time. The Word is {.....}
18. Me : I give up
19.Alexa : The Word is {....}
Before jumping into action for the project , I would suggest you to go through the basics of
- Flask_Ask package and it is minimum required code structure.
- Alexa - Launch Intent , Built-In Intent , Custom Intent , Fall Back Intent
Issues Faced:
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During installation of Flask-ask , I was getting the “python setup.py egg_info” failed with error code 1”. However this was resolved after degrading the PIP version 9.0.3. ( pip3 install pip=9.0.3)
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Next error was related to Cryptograpy package version. The current version of cryptograpy was not supporting my code . Hence I had to degrade it to <2.2 which resolved my error. ( pips install cryptograpy< 2.2)
References :
- https://flask-ask.readthedocs.io/
- https://pythonprogramming.net/testing-deploying-alexa-skill-flask-ask-python-tutorial/?completed=/headlines-function-alexa-skill-flask-ask-python-tutorial/
Backend Server options
The application needs a webserver where the Wordgame logic is running. I could think of below options to acheive this:( but we have more)
- Your local machine as webserver with .ngrok to serve the traffic on SSL
- Host your Python application on AWS Elastic Beanstalk
- Host your Application on AWS Lamda
- Host your Application on Pythonanywhere PAAS cloud