Amazon Echo is a voice activated digital assistant, similar to Apple’s Siri or Google Now. More info on Echo: http://www.amazon.com/echo

Phone Book is an app built by Appestry that runs in Echo. Use Phone Book to look up business phone numbers and addresses within a city or zip code. It finds the top 5 results, reads each result and waits for your command before reading the next one. You can ask Echo to repeat the result or start a new look up. It is very easy to use without having to navigate through a long list of results or menu choices!

Here is a sample dialog with Echo:

User: Alexa, open phone book
Echo: Opening phone book. What would you like to look up? You can say things like, look up dry cleaners, or, Pizza Hut in Irving, Texas.
User: Look up Pizza Hut in 75063
Echo: I found 5 results for Pizza Hut in 75063. Pizza Hut, 820 South Macarthur Boulevard Suite 102 in Coppell. The phone number is (972) 393-3933. Do you want me to repeat that, or, read the next result?
User: read the next one
Echo: Pizza Hut, 5360 North Macarthur Boulevard in Irving. The phone number is (972) 550-8899. Do you want me to repeat that or read the next result?
User: Look up McDonald’s
Echo: Ok. Where do you want to lookup McDonald’s? You can say places like Dallas, Texas, or, 90210.
…

Phone Book results are provided by Yellow Pages. This app is waiting to be published and is not publicly available in Amazon Echo.

More info on Appestry: http://appestry.biz

Alexa will read a random quote from the Top 250 movies on IMDB.

It’s very challenging, and surprisingly fun!

Source code:
https://github.com/OverloadUT/alexa-movie-quotes

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Amazon Echo is designed around your voice. It’s always on—just ask for information, music, news, weather, and more. Echo begins working as soon as it detects the wake word. You can pick Alexa or Amazon as your wake word. Echo is also an expertly tuned speaker that can fill any room with immersive sound. The amazon Echo is in it’s infancy, I am betting you will see big things in the future from the continual development of this device.

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