IDEA #1: Emotion - adding a personality
I’m ready to release a second type of skills:
Emotional Shell is an Alexa skill that detects and conveys emotions (joy, sadness, anger, fear, surprise, disgust) to the user in response to their interactions.
Emotional Shell is a prototype application to convey emotions dinamically to the user as a response to user interactions. It connects to a Large Language Model (made by OpenAI) able to perform emotion detection (joy, sadness, anger, fear, surprise, disgust) and renders an emotion though Alexa postprocessing.
User: <<I’m very happy today>>
I added a couple of features: a quality of service of the system, as detected by a new algorithm (different from the ‘Oracle of Light’) and visual feedback of the words where Alexa should change the pitch (highlighted in red now, later I’ll add a color code for each emotion just for debug).
It is available only for english speakers in the following locale: US, Canada, Uk.
I myself cannot use it in my Alexa device, I can use it only in my developer console!
Amazon replied to me telling me that it is possible to invite some beta tester to try my skill. If you want, you can join my skill as first user.
Amazon sent me back to answer my question:
<< Beta testing allow you to share your skill before you release your Alexa skill to production for a limited set of users. Skill Beta Testing for Alexa Skills | Alexa Skills Kit >>
If you are interested, you should provide me with the email that you use for your amazon account for Alexa. Send me an email with it at
revolutionary.voice.2020 @ gmail.com
I will let you know mine, if you need to build trust.
What I see from my alexa console is this:
I think your account would be added there, so that you can use the skill with your account.
Let me know if interested, I can add you to the beta testers. I never tried this mechanism, so there might be some glitches or potentially it could not work.