With the rise of electronics in the past decade, books have replaced by technologies such as video games, phones, and ebooks as a source of entertainement and literature. However, children stories and fairytales are an important part in building up their literary, creativity, cognitive and language skils.
Thus, with the rise of audio controlled home devices, we saw Amazon Alexa as a part of our solution. We designed an Amazon Alexa Skill that reads aloud children stories on prompt and completely hand-free. This not only solves the problem of children and their lack of reading since they can easily operate voice commands and listen to stories while in bed, but this also allows blind people to be able to more easily access these types of audio books since only their voice is required.
An alexa "skill" that allows your alexa to read a children's story from our database and features features such as:
- Reading children books, out-loud
- Complimentary Website
- Free
- Beautiful Soup and urlib via Python to scrape stories on the public domain from various websites
- HTML, CSS, Javascript to create a functional website to redirect users to our product
- React.js to program the Alexa Skill using the Alexa Skills Kit
- S3 buckets via Amazon Web Services to store our database of stories
- Google/Gmail API to recieve messages without the need of a server
- Improve support for s3 buckets
Made in collaboration with Jayson Yan, Neien Wei, Emily Huang, and Stephen Hwang
email service: github.com/dwyl/html-form-send-email-via-google-script-without-server