Here is the link to the (NOT A WEBSITE) homepage (this page is just a basic homepage, the actual alexa requests are handled at /alexa) --> https://covid-alexa-assistant.herokuapp.com/alexa
This assistant provides the users with:
- The ability to get statistics (number of covid cases, deatha & recoveries).
- The ability to get statistics (number of covid cases, deatha & recoveries) from any country effected (with more than one case).
- The ability to get global news updates regarding the covid-19 pandemic.
- The ability to get news from any country substantially effected by the health crisis.
- Here are some sample utterances you can use to get the responses mentioned above:
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- Alexa, ask the covid kid for global news
- Alexa, ask the covid kid for latest news from {your_country_name}
- Alexa, ask the covid kid for global statistics/stats
- Alexa, ask the covid kid for stats from {your_country_name}
- There are several more similar utterances with providing the intended responses!
This virtual assistant utilizes:
- Python for scraping information from the worldometers site, for statistics --> scrape.py
- Flask-ask as the backend for the Alexa Skill (Amazon Developer Kit) --> thing.py
- Python news_api to get the lates global and country specific news --> news.py
Screenshots of the voice assistant at work:
