alexa-anagram

Alexa responds with the count and anagrams for a requested word

Skill Usage

"Alexa, ask anagrams for apple"

"Apple has 17 subanagrams: a, ale, ape, apple, la, lap, lea, leap, pa, pal, pale, pap, pea, peal, pep, plea"

Deploy with CloudFormation

Prerequisites: Node.js and AWS CLI installed

• Create an AWS Account and IAM User with the AdministratorAccess AWS Managed Policy
• Run aws configure to put store that user's credentials in ~/.aws/credentials
• Create an S3 bucket for storing the Lambda code and store its name in a shell variable with:
  • export CODE_BUCKET=<bucket name>
• Npm install:
  • npm install
• Build:
  • npm run build
• Upload package to S3, transform the CloudFormation template:
  • npm run package
• Deploy to CloudFormation:
  • npm run deploy

Deploy from the AWS Serverless Application Repository

• Hit "Deploy" from the application page

Alexa Setup

• Open the AWS Console, and navigate to your lambda, copy the ARN
  • Should be something like arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:000000000000:function:dev-alexa-anagram-username-anagram-XXXXXXXXXXXXX
• Open the Amazon Developer Console
  • Navigate to Alexa / Alexa Skills Kit/ Add a new Skill
  • Fill in skill information
  • Copy interaction-model.json in for the interaction model
  • In Configuration, paste the copied ARN from Lambda
  • In test, enter utterance "for apple" and hit Ask Anagram

Data

The dictionary is 6of12.txt, with single-letter words other than "a" removed, along with all words containing non lowercase letters (e.g. proper nouns, hyphenations, contractions, etc.). See original information about 12dicts.

Links

• alexa-anagram on Github
• alexa-anagram on the AWS Serverless Application Repository

License

© 2017-2019 Evan Chiu. This project is available under the terms of the MIT license.