VOSD / AlexaVoiceOfSanDiego

Alexa Skill Kit to get news reports from Voice of San Diego.

Voice of San Diego Alexa Skills Setup Instructions

Utterances

• Read the morning report
  • to read me the morning report
  • to give me the morning report
  • to tell me the morning report
  • read me the morning report
  • give me the morning report
  • tell me the morning report
  • read the morning report
  • give the morning report
  • tell the morning report
  • about the morning report
  • about morning report
  • morning report
  • I want to listen to the most recent morning report
  • I want to listen to the latest morning report
  • I want to listen to the morning report
  • listen to the morning report
  • listen morning report
• Play the podcast
  • to play me the most recent podcast
  • to play the most recent podcast
  • to play me the latest podcast
  • to play the most recent podcast
  • to play the latest podcast
  • to play the podcast
  • to play most recent podcast
  • to play latest podcast
  • to play podcast
  • play me the most recent podcast
  • play the most recent podcast
  • play me the most recent podcast
  • play me the latest podcast
  • play the latest podcast
  • play the podcast
  • play most recent podcast
  • play latest podcast
  • play podcast
  • podcast
  • I want to listen to the most recent podcast
  • I want to listen to the latest podcast
  • listen to the most recent podcast
  • listen to the latest podcast
  • listen to the podcast
  • listen podcast
• Listen to what's new
  • to what is the latest news
  • give me the latest news
  • give me the latest news
  • what is the most recent news
  • to give me the most recent news
  • give me the most recent news
  • what is the latest news
  • to give me the latest news
  • give me the latest news
  • latest news
  • most recent news
  • what is new
  • what's new
  • listen to what is new
  • listen to what's new
  • listen to latest news
  • listen to most recent news
  • listen news
  • to tell me what is new
  • to tell me the latest news
  • to tell me the most recent news
  • to tell what is new
  • to tell the latest news
  • to tell the most recent news
  • to tell latest news
  • to tell most recent news
  • to tell news
  • tell me what is new
  • tell me the latest news
  • tell me the most recent news
  • tell what is new
  • tell the latest news
  • tell the most recent news
  • tell latest news
  • tell most recent news
  • tell news

Setup

1. Create VOSD-AlexaContents database

   1. Create DynamoDB named VOSD-AlexaContents
   2. Set the primary key name to Key with type String

2. Deploy VOSD-FetchPodcasts code

   1. Create IAM role for FetchPodcasts
      1. Create new role VOSD-FetchPodcasts
      2. Use AWSLambdaBasicExecutionRole
      3. Add DynamoDB permssions
         • dynamodb:BatchGetItem
         • dynamodb:BatchWriteItem
         • dynamodb:DeleteItem
         • dynamodb:GetItem
         • dynamodb:GetRecords
         • dynamodb:GetShardIterator
         • dynamodb:PutItem
         • dynamodb:Query
         • dynamodb:Scan
         • dynamodb:UpdateItem
   2. Publish FetchPodcasts
      1. cd src/FetchPodcasts
      2. dotnet lambda deploy-function
   3. Add environment variables for VOSD-FetchPodcasts
      1. dynamo_table = VOSD-AlexaContents
      2. podcasts_limit = 5
      3. podcasts_feed_url = http://podcast.voiceofsandiego.org/rss
   4. Add first cron trigger
      1. Select CloudWatch Event - Schedule
      2. Select rule name: VOSD-UpdatePodcastsFriday
      3. Schedule expression: cron(0 19-23 ? * FRI *)
   5. Add second cron trigger
      1. Select CloudWatch Event - Schedule
      2. Select rule name: VOSD-UpdatePodcastsSaturday
      3. Schedule expression: cron(0 0-6 ? * SAT *)

3. Deploy VOSD-FetchMorningReport

   1. Create IAM role for FetchMorningReport
      1. Create new role VOSD-FetchMorningReport
      2. Use AWSLambdaBasicExecutionRole
      3. Add DynamoDB permssions
         • dynamodb:BatchGetItem
         • dynamodb:BatchWriteItem
         • dynamodb:DeleteItem
         • dynamodb:GetItem
         • dynamodb:GetRecords
         • dynamodb:GetShardIterator
         • dynamodb:PutItem
         • dynamodb:Query
         • dynamodb:Scan
         • dynamodb:UpdateItem
   2. Publish FetchMorningReport
      1. cd src/FetchMorningReport
      2. dotnet lambda deploy-function
   3. Add environment variables for VOSD-FetchMorningReport
      1. dynamo_table = VOSD-AlexaContents
      2. morning_report_feed_url = http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/category/newsletters/morning-report/feed/
   4. Add cron trigger
      1. Select CloudWatch Event - Schedule
      2. Create rule name: VOSD-UpdateAlexaContents
      3. Rule description: Update VOSD-AlexaContents table
      4. Schedule expression: cron(0/15 11-17 ? * * *)

4. Deploy VOSD-HandleAlexaPrompts

   1. Create IAM role for HandleAlexaPrompts
      1. Create new role VOSD-HandleAlexaPrompts
      2. Use AWSLambdaBasicExecutionRole
      3. Add DynamoDB permssions
         • dynamodb:BatchGetItem
         • dynamodb:BatchWriteItem
         • dynamodb:DeleteItem
         • dynamodb:GetItem
         • dynamodb:GetRecords
         • dynamodb:GetShardIterator
         • dynamodb:PutItem
         • dynamodb:Query
         • dynamodb:Scan
         • dynamodb:UpdateItem
   2. Publish HandleAlexaPrompts
      1. cd src/HandleAlexaPrompts
      2. dotnet lambda deploy-function
   3. Add environment variables for VOSD-FetchPodcasts
      1. dynamo_table = VOSD-AlexaContents
      2. (optional) pre_heading_break = 750ms
      3. (optional) post_heading_break = 250ms
      4. (optional) bullet_break = 750ms
   4. Configure VOSD-HandleAlexaPrompts
      1. Add Alexa Skills Kit trigger
   5. Create Alexa Skill in Amazon
      1. Use VOSD-HandleAlexaPrompts lambda ARN as end point