Authentic Weather
Exploring Voice Interfaces
Lisbon, Portugal • 2017
Authentic Eeather was a fun project that we came up my “buddy in crime”, Konstantinos Leimonis, and I decided to participate in an AWS workshop for Alexa Skills in Lisbon, Portugal. Drawing inspiration from Tobias Schneider’s popular weather mobile app and Amazon’s Super Bowl campaign, we started building our own voice version of Authentic Weather.
Alexa Super Bowl Ad
700+ lines of tailored answers was written
While I did really enjoy polishing up the 700 lines of code and white listing some f-words, the real fun started only when I began applying Amazon’s Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) to activate Amazon-specific effects to the speech, such as emphasis or prosody. I’m really proud of the work we did and I truly enjoyed this side project!
* While still available, the skill isn’t functional at the moment due to an important change in Yahoo weather API
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