This project is based on the Sam Machin project, the Alexa Pi for the Raspberry Pi, for the Intel Edison. The idea was to port the original project to the Edison and use the MRAA library from Intel.
Based on https://github.com/sammachin/AlexaPi
To build this project you'll need a USB sound card. The Intel Edison doesn't have integrated sound card.
http://www.emutexlabs.com/ubilinux
https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/loading-debian-ubilinux-on-the-edison
https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/installing-libmraa-on-ubilinux-for-edison