/tranquil-sounds

Mindfulness and meditation to bring more clarity, joy and peace to your daily life. Experience less anxiety and better sleep with calming sounds and relaxing music. Recommended to help you de-stress.

Primary LanguageKotlinMIT LicenseMIT

Tranquil Sounds

🎵 Tranquil Sounds

Tranquil Sounds is an Alexa skill designed to help you relax and de-stress through mindfulness and meditation. 🧘‍♀️ The skill plays calming sounds and relaxing music from a variety of genres, creating a peaceful atmosphere for your mind and body.

Built using Kotlin and running on AWS Lambda, with MP3 files served from an S3 bucket, this skill offers a seamless and efficient experience. 🚀

✨ Features

  • 🎶 Wide variety of genres including:
    • 🍀 Irish & Celtic
    • 🔥 Crackling Fire & Fireplace
    • 🌿 Meditation & Yoga
    • 🐦 Bird Song & Forest
    • 🌧️ Rain & Nature
    • 🌌 Space, Interstellar & Galaxy
    • 🐳 Whale & Underwater
    • 🌊 Deep Sea & Sea
    • 🎐 Chimes & Wind Chimes
    • ❄️ Snowstorm, Blizzard & Arctic
    • 🎹 Piano
  • 🧠 Mindfulness and meditation to bring more clarity, joy, and peace to your daily life
  • 😴 Experience less anxiety and better sleep with calming sounds and relaxing music
  • ⚡ Optimized performance with S3 bucket as MP3 source and AWS Lambda as execution runtime

🎯 How to Use

To use Tranquil Sounds, simply:

  1. Say "Alexa, open Tranquil Sounds"
  2. Specify the genre you'd like to listen to

For example: "Alexa, tell Tranquil Sounds to play Irish music" 🎻

Want to be surprised? Try: "Alexa, tell Tranquil Sounds to play random genre" 🎲

🤝 Contributing

This repository is intended as a learning tool. However, if you find any bugs or would like to improve the code, please feel free to open an issue or a pull request. We appreciate your contributions! 💡

👨‍💻 Authors

  • Denis Murphy

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License

Relax, unwind, and enjoy the tranquil sounds! 🌟