The Idea
Building a Alexa Based Trading Assistant
Future of search would be voice and AI based as currently 50% of searches are voice based. Voice based Assistants like Siri, Amazon Echo, Google Home can be found in various ways in our daily lifestyle.
The idea is to create a custom Financial Skill for Alexa which can assist a user with stock market news of the day, fetches latest updates from his portfolio and assist a user in opening his trading account. Voice Search is more convienient as it's fast and less typing is required.
This is only a Proof of Concept, where a dummy account is created on a cloud DB. No real informtion is gather from customers.
Design Document for creating a Custom Alexa Skill.
Tech Stack
Amazon Developer portal account to create Alexa Interaction Model. AWS Account to create the Lambda function which can respond to Alexa Invocation or connect with a third party API. Lamda Function is the Backend of the Alexa skill, which connects to Stock Market APIs like Alpha Vantage.
Express API is created and deployed on Heroku, API updates the cloud DB with utterances from the echo dot.
Demo
You can create free AWS & Amazon Developer portal account to host the skill there.
Above Project Video explains in depth, how to setup the Infrastructure for creating, debugging and hoisting a custom Alexa SKill.
Here is a quick demo 👇 to showcase use-case of Alexa Skill in Finance Domain