Tutorial: Building a Rasa-powered Alexa Assistant
This repository contains the code of the tutorial of connecting Rasa-powered assistant to Alexa. You can find the step-by-step tutorial here or in this YouTube Playlist.
What's in this repository?
This repository consists of the following files and directories:
- mood_bot_text - a directory which contains a pre-built Rasa assistant called Moodbot Text, based on the Moodbot example that's built when you run
init rasa. This assistant is used to demonstrate the integration to Alexa. - alexa_schema.json - a custom Alexa configuration file that will create an intent and slot to return the user's complete response.
- alexa_connector.py - a custom Rasa-Alexa Assistant connector. If you follow the tutorial using your own assistant, add this connector to your project directory.
How to use this repository?
The best way to use this repository is to follow this step-by-step tutorial on how to integrate the Rasa assistant to Alexa.
You can download the code for this repository by running:
git clone https://github.com/RasaHQ/tutorial-rasa-alexa.git
From here, install the required packages in your virtual environment by running:
cd tutorial-rasa-alexa/mood_bot_text
pip install -r requirements.txt
You should now be able to train your assistant using:
rasa train
Once your assistant is trained, you can try interacting with it in the shell by running:
rasa shell
Let us know how you are getting on!
If you have any questions about this tutorial or this repository, feel free to share them on Rasa Community Forum.