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Voice User Interface Projects

You're reading from   Voice User Interface Projects Build voice-enabled applications using Dialogflow for Google Home and Alexa Skills Kit for Amazon Echo

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788473354
Length 404 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Henry Lee Henry Lee
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Preface 1. Introduction 2. Building an FAQs Chatbot FREE CHAPTER 3. Building a Fortune Cookie Application 4. Hosting, Securing, and Testing Fortune Cookie in the Cloud 5. Deploying the Fortune Cookie App for Google Home 6. Building a Cooking Application Using Alexa 7. Using Advanced Alexa Features for the Cooking App 8. Migrating the Alexa Cooking Application to Google Home 9. Building a Voice-Enabled Podcast for the Car 10. Hosting and Enhancing the Android Auto Podcast 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating a web service endpoint to handle skill requests

In the previous sections, you created a Henry's Kitchen skill that sends the recipe ideas. The Node.js server endpoint will fulfill Henry's Kitchen skill requests by querying a third-party service called Spoonacular (https://spoonacular.com/food-api). Spoonacular will provide food recommendations to the endpoint service to construct the response that will be sent back to the user.

Here are the steps necessary to create Node.js code for the endpoint web service:

  1. Open Visual Studio Code.
  2. You are going to write some Node.js codes to handle Alexa skill requests. Before you begin, create three files:
    • server.js: This is the Node.js server's entrypoint to execute the server code.
    • package.json: This contains the Node.js dependencies required to execute server.js. When you type npm install on the Node.js Command...
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