Voice assistants and voice interfaces are quickly becoming the new hot way to interact with computers.

Two of the more notable ones are Amazon Echo devices and Google Home devices.

Wouldn't it be great if we could program these with Python?

And even better if we could use well-known APIs such as Flask?

This week you'll meet Eric Cho, Dave Botilla, and Cam Sweeney, who discussed their frameworks and apps they built around Amazon and Google devices.

This is Talk Python to Me.

Episode 146, recorded December 20th, 2017.

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