After I first got an Amazon Echo I quickly found myself wanting to control more things in my house by voice. I could already turn on & off my entertainment system or tune to some preset channels, but I wanted more. I just wanted to say "Alexa, turn on the Yankees game" & have it figure out the rest. What about being able to ask questions like "Alexa, what time is the Rangers game later?" or "Alexa, what's on HBO?" This seemed like an important problem worth solving, so I got to work.

In this session I'll walk through how I pieced together a solution using a variety of Azure services such as Azure Functions (written in F#!), Azure Search Service, SQL Server, Service Bus, & Storage. There's also a Raspberry Pi thrown in for good measure, but that's the only hardware I manage myself. It's actually a lot simpler than it sounds, so join me to learn how you can easily build your own voice-driven experiences!

Speaker

Greg Shacklesis a Principal Engineer at Olo. He is a Xamarin MVP, Microsoft MVP, host of theGone Mobile podcast, organizer of theNYC Mobile .NET Developers Group, author ofMobile Development with C#, & also a monthly columnist withVisual Studio Magazine.

Note: this month's meeting is in Broadway, not our normal room!