Awesome Voice Apps

A curated list of awesome voice projects, tools, and resources for Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and more.

• General
  • Newsletters
  • Blogs
  • Podcasts
  • Communities
• Design & Prototyping
  • Design Tools
  • Design Resources
• Development
  • Development Tools
  • Docs
  • Tutorials & Courses
  • Templates & Examples
• Testing
  • Testing Tools
• Resources
  • Sounds

General

Newsletters

• Voice Dev Rocks: Tech-focused newsletter from the voice developer community.
• Voicebot Weekly: Very up-to-date and thorough coverage of what's happening in voice.
• Hearing Voices: Market-focused newsletter sharing interesting links and thoughts about the voice space.

Blogs

• Offical Alexa Dev Blog: Regularly updated with all the latest from the Alexa dev team
• Talking to Computers: Development focused blog by Dustin Coates

Podcasts

• Alexa Dev Chat The official Amazon Alexa Dev podcast (monthly)
• VoiceFirstFM: Great formats, including "This Week in Voice" and a roundtable
• Voicebot Podcasts Weekly podcast starring people involved in the voice space

Communities

• Alexa Slack: 1000+ Alexa Skill developers
• Google Home Slack: 100+ Google Action developers
• Microsoft Cortana Slack: 30+ Cortana Skill developers
• #VoiceDevs on Twitter: Twitter List of voice developers
• Official Alexa Dev Forums: Support from the Alexa team

Design & Prototyping

Design Tools

• Sayspring: Service that allows for prototyping, designing, and sharing voice apps before development stage
• Storyline: Create voice apps without coding by using a mind map interface
• Botmock: Design prototypes for Amazon Alexa & Google Assistant with in-browser testing and team collaboration
• Tortu: Design voice apps for any platform. Create visual flowcharts, store all phrase variants for each dialog step and create interactive prototypes.

Design Resources

• Crafting a Character: Design an engaging Assistant app: Step by step guide for designing a voice/bot character, provided by Google
• Clearleft Voice Guidelines: An extensive list of resources and guidelines for designing voice interfaces

Development

Development Tools

Development Frameworks

• Jovo: Build cross-platform voice applications for Amazon Alexa and Google Home
• Voxa: Alexa Framework that uses state machines
• Flask-Ask: Alexa Skills Kit for Python
• Woice: Voice Browsing and Transcription Framework.

NLU Tools

• Dialogflow: Previously known as API.AI, owned by Google
• Rasa: Open source language understanding for conversational bots and assistants Install
• [SNIPS] (https://snips.ai/): Snips provides Private-By-Design, Decentralized Voice Assistant Technology and Solutions.

Testing Tools

• Reverb: Test Alexa on your phone or desktop
• BST: Command Line Interface tool for testing while developing Alexa Skills and Google Actions
• EchoSim: Test Alexa on your Amazon account from your browser
• Jovo Debugger: Test Jovo voice apps in your browser

Analytics Tools

• Dashbot: Chatbot analytics including usage metrics and live transcripts.
• Bespoken Analytics: Dashboard including usage metrics, logging, and monitoring

Audio Tools

• Audio Converter: Convert your MP3s into the right format for Alexa skills
• Talestreamer: Add rich, multilayered sound effects and music to your speech output.

Other tools

• Skillinator: Create an Alexa Skill node.js blueprint from an Interaction Model JSON
• Slotinator: Easily create an Alexa JSON structure for custom slots

Docs

• Amazon Alexa Docs: Official resource from Amazon
• Getting Started with Alexa Skills Kit: Official resource from Amazon

Tutorials & Courses

• Official Alexa Tutorials: Up to date tutorials from the Alexa dev team
• DabbleLab: Weekly video tutorials and associated github repo
• Codecademy: A complete "from the basics" intro to Alexa and Lambda

Books

• Voice Applications for Alexa and Google Assistant Book will teach you how to build your own "skills"— the voice app term for actions the device can perform — from scratch.

Templates & Examples

• Alexa Offical Github: 23 repos with python and node templates from the basics to an audioplayer
• Actions on Google Official GitHub: 14 repos with node templates

Resources

Sounds

• TsaTsaTzu Alexa Resources: Sound files to use in SSML

License

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