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Voice assistants have become a common occurrence that are present in our smart-phones, speakers or dedicated devices like the Google Home and Alexa Echo. Over the years, these voice assistants have become more intelligent and the number of tasks that can be performed by them has increased. Of the many voice assistants that exist, Amazon’s Alexa is one of the most compatible voice assistants, which can be programmed to suit specific use cases by the use of Amazon’s Alexa Skills Kit. Through this paper, we leverage the power of Alexa’s voice assistance by designing a navigation system for our college campus, which allows users to request directions in the most intuitive way possible. This is a cost-effective and scalable solution based on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda.
R. Vijayaraghavan, R. Gala and V. Rambhia—Equal Contribution.
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Vijayaraghavan, R., Gala, R., Rambhia, V., Patel, D. (2021). CampusMaps: Voice Assisted Navigation Using Alexa Skills. In: Hong, TP., Wojtkiewicz, K., Chawuthai, R., Sitek, P. (eds) Recent Challenges in Intelligent Information and Database Systems. ACIIDS 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1371. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1685-3_4
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