Senior Project - College of Computing & Informatics

Tooey

Studies show that roughly 51% of all Amazon Echoes sold are placed inside a household’s kitchen. This statistic allowed us to imagine a useful skill for Alexa for the kitchen area. This skill would be something that allowed users to experience an entirely new way to help in the kitchen area: A means of retrieving recipes instantly from the internet in the context of a casual conversation. Tooey is an intuitive new Alexa skill that gives users of Amazon Echoes a way to easily cook meals in their kitchens without the trouble of having to look recipes up online or from a book. By the use of a casual conversation with Alexa, users have the means to see what kinds of dishes they can prepare with their available ingredients, as well as being able to hear the directions for these dishes in an intuitive, easy-to-follow method.

Team Members

Cyrus Hilliard

cjh354@drexel.edu

Michael Luker

mtl63@drexel.edu

Alper Ozturk

ao389@drexel.edu

Harshil Patel

hrp27@drexel.edu

Abass Sesay

as3879@drexel.edu

Jeff Shea

jts343@drexel.edu

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Architectural Design Components

Toulie is a skill for Amazon Echo devices. It is designed to assist a user to find and prepare a recipe. Users of Toulie will be able to use a set of defined voice commands to interact with the skill. The goal of the skill is to give an optimal, hands-free reference guide to a database of recipes. The design of the proposed system involves both the Alexa frontend and the application server that service request from said front

Backend

The backend of the system would be responsible for the retrieval of the recipe, based on that request would construct a response that will be sent to Alexa to be read out to the user. E.g User can ask for the ingredient of a recipe or can ask for the procedure of a recipe, these request would have a different response