How To Install Amazon Alexa On Windows 10 Pc
Achmat Das
The following guide provides step-by-step instructions to set up the Alexa Voice Service (AVS) Device SDK on Windows 10 64 bit. This includes installing, building, authorizing, and using the Alexa Voice Service (AVS) Device SDK. When finished, you have a working sample app to test interactions with Alexa.
Before you install the AVS Device SDK, you must Register an AVS Product and Create a Security Profile. After you register your device, you download a config.json file that contains your client ID and client secret. The client ID and client secret authorize your device, so you can retrieve access tokens from AVS. Your config.json file facilitates the authorization calls between your device and AVS.
Download and run the MSYS2 (64-bit) installer. This installs three different shells: MSYS2, MinGW32, and MinGW64. After the installation finishes, open the MinGW64 shell. You should be in the home directory.
Open the MinGW64 shell and run these three commands in a single block statement. This downloads three AVS Device SDK configuration scripts into your MinGW64 home directory. These scripts are later used to download and authorize the AVS Device SDK and sample app.
Make sure you update the path parameters to point to the same locations that you downloaded the WebVTT files to in step one and two of these instructions. For example, /home/alexa/webvtt/build/src/webvtt/libwebvtt.dll and /home/alexa/webvtt/include/.
You are now ready to talk to Alexa. The next time you start the sample app, you don't have to go through the authorization process again. If you close the sample app, start it again by rerunning the startsample.bat file.
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