some time back Amazon, the to be mammoth in internet space, announced Alexa. Alexa is an AI based voice assistant (comparable to Apple Siri and google now). Although a few argue that Amazon Alexa is not a novel tech and dought its prospects, I believe, its promoters entered the market with excellent timing. On top of Amazon Alexa is very developer friendly. Just recently, Amazon came up with a promotional campaign for developers; a lucrative hackathon.
I wanted to make a very very simple skill which I can finish up in few hours. I made a simple multiplication app (code). The Alexa Skill has 3 interface utterances. We can invoke this skill 3 ways:
1. Alexa, ask Math Championship, to tell me table of {Number}
2. Alexa, ask Math Championship, to start a game (for tables from 1 to 11, randomly)
3. Alexa, ask Math Championship, to ask me table of {Number}
The most irritating part of the hackathon was to prepare a video for submission. While I improve my video making ability, all I could produce is this shitty youtube video. And with all that finally, I have this Amazon Alexa skill – Math Championship.
blend of code, ml, math & algorithms 