Inventing Friends: ActionCable + AVS = 3
summary
A Rails app named Friendsterbookspace uses ActionCable for a live MMOC chatroom, wires Alexa via the Alexa Skills Kit and the Amazon Voice Service, sends text to Polly for TTS, converts MP3→WAV with FFmpeg, stores audio on S3, then posts to AVS so devices speak unprompted. Deploy hooks, build-status queries and voice-triggered deploys are implemented and demoed on Heroku; the demos mostly work but several live voice queries fail intermittently.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Intro
- 4:57Alexa
- 5:53Alexa Skills
- 11:20Alexa Voice Service
- 12:25Demo
- 15:25Polly
- 18:53ActionCable Basics
- 23:07Alexa on Rails
- 25:32Alexa Demo
- 30:17Hug the Future
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