Internet of Voice Challenge @ Hackster.io

As we said last week, Amazon is investing heavily (and working hard, too) towards a world of things connected to the Internet where we interact with objects (and robots…) with natural language. With voice.

A new initiative in this front is the “Internet of Voice Challenge“, run jointly by Hackster.io, the Raspberry Pi Foundation and Amazon.

There are two categories:

Alexa Skills Kit and Pi

Finding innovative and clever ways of integrating Alexa Skills into maker projects.

The criteria will be:

• Use of a Raspberry Pi (20 points)
• Creativity (15 points)
• Use of Voice User Interface (VUI) best practices (15 points)
• Story/Instruction – Show how you created your project, including images, screenshots, and/or video (10 Points)
• Project Documentation including VUI diagram (10 Points)
• Code – Include working code with helpful comments (15 Points)
• Published Skill (20 Points)

Alexa Voice Services and Pi

Making devices come alive by adding voice interactions.

And the criteria:

• Use of a Raspberry Pi (20 points)
• Creativity (15 points)
• Use of Voice User Interface (VUI) best practices (15 points)
• Story/Instruction – Show how you created your project, including images, screenshots, and/or video (10 Points)
• Project Documentation including VUI diagram (10 Points)
• Code – Include working code with helpful comments (15 Points)
• BONUS – Published skill (10 points)

There’s 3 prizes for each category. This is the part that Amazon covers, so you won’t be surprised by this kind of bounty: Trophy, Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, Amazon Tap, $1,500 Gift Card for the first prize.

You can enter here. Submissions close on 1st August 2016. So far, 119 contestants, no projects submitted yet.