How To Use Amazon Skill Set Without Amazon Echo Device

Question

I am trying to integrate amazon skill kit in my website without an amazon echo unit. I want to implement voice commands on my website using the laptop/PC microphone instead of a

Answer 1

If you haven't already, check out https://echosim.io

It's a web simulator of an Echo device.

It behaves just like any other Alexa 'device'. Login with your Amazon account and it picks up all your selected skills, etc. Shows up as just another device in the Alexa app.

Only downsides: You have to click to talk, and it's pretty slow, presumably because it has to receive, buffer, convert and re-ship the audio.

Also, I'm not sure how you register/connect to the Alexa service in the first place without an Echo/Dot device, but I assume there is a way.

More recently, there are a number of free 3rd-party apps on Android and iOS devices to also simulate an Alexa/Echo device. Search for 'Alexa' in your App/Play store and try a few of them out. "Reverb" is one: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/reverb-for-amazon-alexa/id1144695621

Good luck.