Awesome Voice Apps

A curated list of awesome voice projects, tools, and resources for Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and more.

General
Design & Prototyping
- Design Tools
- Design Resources
Development
Testing
- Testing Tools
Resources
- Sounds

General

Newsletters

Voice Dev Rocks: Tech-focused newsletter from the voice developer community.
Voicebot Weekly: Very up-to-date and thorough coverage of what's happening in voice.
Hearing Voices: Market-focused newsletter sharing interesting links and thoughts about the voice space.

Blogs

Offical Alexa Dev Blog: Regularly updated with all the latest from the Alexa dev team
Talking to Computers: Development focused blog by Dustin Coates

Podcasts

Alexa Dev Chat The official Amazon Alexa Dev podcast (monthly)
VoiceFirstFM: Great formats, including "This Week in Voice" and a roundtable
Voicebot Podcasts Weekly podcast starring people involved in the voice space

Communities

Alexa Slack: 1000+ Alexa Skill developers
Google Home Slack: 100+ Google Action developers
Microsoft Cortana Slack: 30+ Cortana Skill developers
#VoiceDevs on Twitter: Twitter List of voice developers
Official Alexa Dev Forums: Support from the Alexa team

Design & Prototyping

Design Tools

Sayspring: Service that allows for prototyping, designing, and sharing voice apps before development stage
Storyline: Create voice apps without coding by using a mind map interface
Botmock: Design prototypes for Amazon Alexa & Google Assistant with in-browser testing and team collaboration
Tortu: Design voice apps for any platform. Create visual flowcharts, store all phrase variants for each dialog step and create interactive prototypes.

Design Resources

Crafting a Character: Design an engaging Assistant app: Step by step guide for designing a voice/bot character, provided by Google
Clearleft Voice Guidelines: An extensive list of resources and guidelines for designing voice interfaces

Development

Development Tools

Development Frameworks

Jovo: Build cross-platform voice applications for Amazon Alexa and Google Home
Voxa: Alexa Framework that uses state machines
Flask-Ask: Alexa Skills Kit for Python
Woice: Voice Browsing and Transcription Framework.

NLU Tools

Dialogflow: Previously known as API.AI, owned by Google
Rasa: Open source language understanding for conversational bots and assistants Install
[SNIPS] (https://snips.ai/): Snips provides Private-By-Design, Decentralized Voice Assistant Technology and Solutions.

Testing Tools

Reverb: Test Alexa on your phone or desktop
BST: Command Line Interface tool for testing while developing Alexa Skills and Google Actions
EchoSim: Test Alexa on your Amazon account from your browser
Jovo Debugger: Test Jovo voice apps in your browser

Analytics Tools

Dashbot: Chatbot analytics including usage metrics and live transcripts.
Bespoken Analytics: Dashboard including usage metrics, logging, and monitoring

Audio Tools

Audio Converter: Convert your MP3s into the right format for Alexa skills
Talestreamer: Add rich, multilayered sound effects and music to your speech output.

Other tools

Skillinator: Create an Alexa Skill node.js blueprint from an Interaction Model JSON
Slotinator: Easily create an Alexa JSON structure for custom slots

Docs

Amazon Alexa Docs: Official resource from Amazon
Getting Started with Alexa Skills Kit: Official resource from Amazon

Tutorials & Courses

Official Alexa Tutorials: Up to date tutorials from the Alexa dev team
DabbleLab: Weekly video tutorials and associated github repo
Codecademy: A complete "from the basics" intro to Alexa and Lambda

Books

Voice Applications for Alexa and Google Assistant Book will teach you how to build your own "skills"— the voice app term for actions the device can perform — from scratch.

Templates & Examples

Alexa Offical Github: 23 repos with python and node templates from the basics to an audioplayer
Actions on Google Official GitHub: 14 repos with node templates

Resources

Sounds

TsaTsaTzu Alexa Resources: Sound files to use in SSML tags

License

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