Udder

Udder is a tool for generating boilerplate for Amazon Echo apps. Right now, it supports generating utterances from a slightly extended template format based on the original Amazon format.

Eventually I'd like to support generating intents/lambda functions as well.

Usage

$ npm install -g udder

Right udder supports generating utterances. More features to follow!

Utterances

Here is an example utterances.txt file:

SetVolume turn it {up,down|Direction}
SetVolume turn {up,down|Direction}
SetVolume turn it {up,down|Direction} a lot
SetVolume turn it {up,down|Direction} a bunch
SetInput switch to {H. D. M. I.|Input} {1…5|Number}
SetInput switch to {A. V.|Input} {1…6|Number}
SetInput switch to {U. S. B.|Input}
SetInput switch to {Audio|Input} {1…2|Number}
SetInput switch to {Tuner|Input}
SetInput switch to {Video Aux|Input}
SetPowerState turn {on|State}
SetPowerState turn {off|State}
SetPowerState power {on|State}
SetPowerState power {off|State}

Note the numeric ranges denoted by ellipses (…). These templates will generate one line per number inclusively within the range.

Make sure you use an actual ellipsis character and not three periods.

Mac: ⌥; Linux: Compose + ...

Let's run the generator on it:

$ udder utterances path/to/utterances.txt

Here's what the output will be:

SetVolume turn it {up|Direction}
SetVolume turn it {down|Direction}
SetVolume turn {up|Direction}
SetVolume turn {down|Direction}
SetVolume turn it {up|Direction} a lot
SetVolume turn it {down|Direction} a lot
SetVolume turn it {up|Direction} a bunch
SetVolume turn it {down|Direction} a bunch
SetInput switch to {H. D. M. I.|Input} {one|Number}
SetInput switch to {H. D. M. I.|Input} {two|Number}
SetInput switch to {H. D. M. I.|Input} {three|Number}
SetInput switch to {H. D. M. I.|Input} {four|Number}
SetInput switch to {H. D. M. I.|Input} {five|Number}
SetInput switch to {A. V.|Input} {one|Number}
SetInput switch to {A. V.|Input} {two|Number}
SetInput switch to {A. V.|Input} {three|Number}
SetInput switch to {A. V.|Input} {four|Number}
SetInput switch to {A. V.|Input} {five|Number}
SetInput switch to {A. V.|Input} {six|Number}
SetInput switch to {U. S. B.|Input}
SetInput switch to {Audio|Input} {one|Number}
SetInput switch to {Audio|Input} {two|Number}
SetInput switch to {Tuner|Input}
SetInput switch to {Video Aux|Input}
SetPowerState turn {on|State}
SetPowerState turn {off|State}
SetPowerState power {on|State}
SetPowerState power {off|State}

You can pipe this to a file in your build process.