The City of Henderson, Nevada Wants an Alexa Skill as Local Governments Recognize the Rising Value of Voice Assistants

Voicebot.ai features Dilli Labs in an article on how local governments are beginning to adopt voice assistants to connect city residents to city services.

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Nevada City Selects Piyush Hari’s Dilli Labs to Develop a Virtual Assistant for Residents

India West – the largest and most prestigious among weekly Indian newspapers on the West Coast of U.S. – has featured Dilli Labs and its founder Piyush Hari on its recent selection by City of Henderson, Nevada to write their voice assistants.

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City of Henderson selects Dilli Labs to develop Amazon Alexa Voice Assistants

San Francisco, CA: Today, DILLI LABS announced that it has been selected by City of Henderson, Nevada, USA through a competitive process to participate in its 2019 Startup in Residence (STIR) program. Nearly 700 startups competed for a chance to work with 22 governments for the opportunity to secure a contract. The selected startups will volunteer their time with government agencies over 16-weeks to tackle civic challenges with new technology tools and services with an objective to enter into a contract with the government agency at the end of the residency.

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‘Doctor Pooch’ Alexa Skill Featured on Alexa Skill Store

We are delighted to learn that Amazon featured Doctor Pooch on Amazon Alexa Skill Store under Staff Picks today. Doctor Pooch is a digital assistant available on Alexa that lets pet owners determine if its safe to feed a given food item to their dog. For example: You can say: Alexa, ask Doctor Pooch if dogs can eat cashews.

Doctor Pooch featured under Staff Picks on Alexa Skill Store
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Physical Inventory Management via Google Assistant

Over the weekend, we had the opportunity to participate in a developer event organized by Intuit to devise a solution to help small businesses. We teamed up with Mr. Jeff Chen – a friend and a small business owner – and Ms. Puja M. Hari to make it easy for businesses to perform a physical inventory. We wrote an Action for Google Assistant named ‘Inventory Manager’ that helps update the quantity on hand for an item in Quickbooks via voice.

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Introducing ‘Dilli Forms’ Alexa Skill

We are delighted to announce that Amazon approved our newest Alexa skill – Dilli Forms. This skill lets you request any form pre-filled with your basic information such as name, address, phone and email address. Simply say – Alexa, ask Dilli Forms to get form <formname>. For ex: To get W-9 form, say Alexa, ask Dilli Forms to get form W-9. Within a few seconds, you will receive an email with the latest PDF version of the form pre-filled with your information. Save time and work smarter using Dilli Forms! Learn more about Dilli Forms Amazon Alexa skill.

“Dilli Labs” Alexa Skill Released!

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We are excited to announce an Amazon Alexa skill we created exclusively for clients of Dilli Labs! Its called ‘Dilli Labs’. Clients are issued a secret client code and a service name that they can use to invoke helper services like Broken Link Checking, creating HTML mark up for WordPress post from Vimeo APIs, requesting invoices, tax forms (W-9s), scheduling meetings, etc. To invoke the skill, simply say Alexa, open Dilli Labs and then follow the prompt. Become a Dilli Labs client now to make use of this skill! Check out Dilli Labs Alexa Skill. If you want to become a client or are an existing Dilli Labs client, and would like to suggest a service and/or get your client code, contact us by filling the form below:






    Amazon features ‘Doctor Pooch’ Alexa Skill

    We are delighted to know that Amazon featured our ‘Doctor Pooch‘ Alexa Skill in their weekly email on Apr 8, 2018 to their subscribers.  Doctor Pooch is an Amazon Alexa skill by Dilli Labs for dog owners and caretakers to find if their furry friends can eat certain foods. Simply say, Alexa, ask Doctor Pooch if dogs can eat <name of food> and get a well-researched response citing the source of the information and tips on feeding like amount and frequency. Here’s a snippet: Here’s the entire email. Jump to Page 2 to see ‘Doctor Pooch’. [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.dillilabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Alexa-Skills-Always-ready-to-help-or-entertain.pdf”]

    ‘Country Game’ – an Amazon Alexa Skill Game – Released

    Dilli Labs is excited to announce the release of ‘Country Game‘ – An Amazon Alexa Skill Game that helps to build vocabulary of country names in kids and adults alike. To get started, simply enable ‘Country Game’ skill and say Alexa, play Country Game.

    To enable this skill on your Amazon Alexa devices :

    1. Open the Alexa app, go to the menu, and select Skills.
    2. Browse for skills by category or use Search. This skill is named ‘Country Game‘. You can find it under the category Games, Trivia and Accessories -> Knowledge and Trivia.
    3. When you find a skill you want to use, select it to open the skill detail page. Then select the Enable Skill option.

    Take turns saying country names with this skill. A country name should begin with the last letter of the previous country name spoken. For ex: if this skill responds with a country name ‘Sweden’, you have to say a country name starting with letter ‘N’ (last letter in word Sweden). When either you or the skill is unable to think of a country name, the game ends. The skill also randomly educates you about countries by telling a fun fact about them during the course of the game. For ex : if you say ‘Netherlands’, it may tell you a fun fact about it like “Did you know that around 20% of Netherlands is located below sea level?”

    This skill keeps a score of your performance based on the number of countries you say in a game. You can also query your worldwide rank. The goal is to help you practice your vocabulary of country names in a fun and competitive way.

    Motivation

    We developed this skill to enter into the Amazon Alexa Kids Challenge. This skill and game is kid-friendly.

    Architecture

    The skill backend is hosted as a Lambda function on AWS and interfaces with DynamoDB for persistence.

    Want to develop your own Alexa Skill ? Contact us by filling the form below