Alexa "Song Match" Quiz

Alexa quiz created using JavaScript and Node.js in the Alexa Developer Console

Table of Contents

• General info
• Technologies
• Setup
• Features
• Design Choice
• Supported Artists
• Bonus

General info

This quiz matches the user to a song of their artist of choice based on their selections in the Alexa environment.

Technologies

Project is created with:

• JavaScript
• Node.js
• Alexa Developer Console

Setup

• Open Alexa Developer Console and paste lambda/custom/index.js into the corresponding file, other files were unchanged.
• Set up the necessary intents shown in models/en-US.json.

Features

• Starts a "Song Match" quiz.
• Asks another artist if the artist provided is not supported.
• Asks a series of questions and matches a song.
• Provides a list of commands.
• Repeats the last statement.
• Stops the quiz.

Design Choice

• The instructions are not automatically provided in the beginning since many people know the rules already.
• Alexa will respond differently to the same utterances depending on whether in quiz or not.
• AMAZON.Musician was not used due to many unwanted utterance conflicts.
• ArtistAnswerIntentHandler takes into account QuizAnswerIntent because it priortises QuizAnswerIntent when an unknown musician is heard.
• AMAZON.NavigateHomeIntent not implemented because restarting game yield similar results and instruction can be get at anytime.
• The output of FallBackIntentHandler won't be repeated by the RepeatIntent because it isn't helpful to get the user back on track.

Supported Artists

• Ariana Grande
• Jason Mraz
• Train
• Pentatonix
• Bon Jovi
• More to be added...

Bonus

• Try saying "Volley, volley, volley"!