Alexa Skill Wizard Challenge

Announcement: The wait is over and results are out, check your team name below. Congratulations to all the winners!

First Place: Team – MightyMIT; Skill - Voice Clues

Second Place: Team – nikmul19_e046; Skill - Bollywood Game

Third Place: Team – prajjwalrai.11_93f5; Skill - Word War 1

Consolation Prizes in no particular order (for the effort put in to build the skill and their creativity):

1. Team - Techievena; Skill - Smart Apertium

2. Team – The Narrators; Skill - Escape The Satpura Forest

3. Team – Creator's Hub; Skill – Health Planner

4. Team – Bro Code; Skill - HealthyMe: Complete Health & Wellness Tracker

5. Team – Brogrammers; Skill - Trippy - Travel Assistant

6. Team – nikmul19_e046; Skill – Box of Letters

7. Team – Ikjot Singh; Skill – Riverdale Quiz

Amazon India is calling tech enthusiasts across universities in India to join “Alexa Skill Wizard Challenge” and build voice-first experiences. This challenge will require you to think outside of the traditional development process and embrace a voice-first design approach, leading with the customer experience.

Have a glimpse at the previous webinar by Sohan Maheshwar who is an Alexa Evangelist at Amazon, on the topic: Build Voice-Enabled Experiences with Alexa.

Alexa, the voice service behind Amazon Echo, is changing how we interact with technology. Alexa can be a concierge, sous chef, fitness coach, personal shopper, and DJ — every time you add a new skill, you make Alexa even smarter. Alexa skills enable voice-first experiences that can engage and delight your customers.

To help you bring your big idea to life with voice, use the Alexa Skills Kit, a collection of self-service APIs, tools, documentation, and code samples that makes it fast and easy for you to add skills to Alexa.

Students from the following colleges are eligible and can sign up for the Alexa Skill Wizard Challenge.

Help shape the UI of the future and enable customers to engage via voice.

How to get started

1. Register for the Alexa Skill Wizard Challenge on HackerEarth
2. Sign up for an Amazon Developer Account and AWS Account
3. Check out the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) and Getting Started Guide
4. Review the Resources page for links to the ASK tutorials and the Alexa skills certification checklist
5. Build your skill!
6. Host your skill on AWS Lambda (recommended), or another hosting service of your choice. You may apply to receive $100 AWS promotional credit.
7. No hardware is required! You do not need an Amazon Echo to participate. Test your skill using Test Simulator (beta).
8. Include Skill ID from the Skill Information tab while submitting.
9. Shoot your demo video and take screenshots of your functioning skill.
10. Submit your skill on HackerEarth AND submit your skill for India Alexa Skill Store certification by 17th Oct, 2018.

Eligibility Criteria: Students currently pursuing their under graduation or post graduation course in India and belonging to colleges listed in Annex A are eligible to participate in this challenge.