{"id":110,"date":"2021-07-10T12:09:10","date_gmt":"2021-07-10T10:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/portfolio.balthasar-von-weymarn.de\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=110"},"modified":"2022-01-18T11:12:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T10:12:15","slug":"voice-alexa-practice-skill-starship-captain-quiz","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/portfolio.balthasar-von-weymarn.de\/?portfolio=voice-alexa-practice-skill-starship-captain-quiz","title":{"rendered":"Voice: Alexa skill Starship Captain Quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Who would not want to know which<strong> legendary space opera starship captain<\/strong> one would most closely resemble?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To solve this pressing question on everybody&#8217;s mind I set out to help determine the answer in an Alexa Skill, namely a quick five question exchange and a roster of five popular commander characters: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-5 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-layzr=\"http:\/\/portfolio.balthasar-von-weymarn.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/BillShatner-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"115\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/portfolio.balthasar-von-weymarn.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/BillShatner.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/portfolio.balthasar-von-weymarn.de\/?attachment_id=115\" class=\"wp-image-115\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-layzr=\"http:\/\/portfolio.balthasar-von-weymarn.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Patrick_Stewart_by_Gage_Skidmore_2-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"111\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/portfolio.balthasar-von-weymarn.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Patrick_Stewart_by_Gage_Skidmore_2.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/portfolio.balthasar-von-weymarn.de\/?attachment_id=111\" class=\"wp-image-111\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-layzr=\"http:\/\/portfolio.balthasar-von-weymarn.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Michelle_Forbes_2009_CCI-272x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"113\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/portfolio.balthasar-von-weymarn.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Michelle_Forbes_2009_CCI.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/portfolio.balthasar-von-weymarn.de\/?attachment_id=113\" class=\"wp-image-113\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-layzr=\"http:\/\/portfolio.balthasar-von-weymarn.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nathan_Fillion_-_Guardians_of_the_Galaxy_premiere_-_July_2014_cropped-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"112\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/portfolio.balthasar-von-weymarn.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nathan_Fillion_-_Guardians_of_the_Galaxy_premiere_-_July_2014_cropped.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/portfolio.balthasar-von-weymarn.de\/?attachment_id=112\" class=\"wp-image-112\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-layzr=\"http:\/\/portfolio.balthasar-von-weymarn.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/TimAllen-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"114\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/portfolio.balthasar-von-weymarn.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/TimAllen.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/portfolio.balthasar-von-weymarn.de\/?attachment_id=114\" class=\"wp-image-114\"\/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">James Kirk, Jean-Luc Picard, Helena Cain, Malcolm Reynolds and Quincy Taggart.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course this is nowhere near anything serious, and the questions reflect that (example below). In order to allow Alexa to come up with an answer, I assigned value points to the user replies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>  {\n    question: \"Are you likely to shoot first and ask questions later?\",\n    questionDisplay: \"Shoot first, ask later. Is that you?\",\n    \/\/background: \"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/coach-courses-us\/public\/courses\/voice\/2.7\/q5.jpg\", \n    background: \"Earth.JPG\",\n    points: {\n      result1: 2,\n      result2: 2,\n      result3: 5,\n      result4: 3,\n      result5: 0\n    }\n  }\n];\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#496ba6\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/-\/de\/dp\/B09988PYKQ\">Want to find out for yourself?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-layzr=\"http:\/\/portfolio.balthasar-von-weymarn.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Scanme-Alexa-SCQ.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-207\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who would not want to know which legendary space opera starship captain one would most closely resemble? 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