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Hi All - We've been experimenting with an Amazon Echo we recently received, and have created an example app that's integrated with the Vital AI platform. This includes a webservice implementation using VertX in the Groovy JVM language ( http://vertx.io/ ) which in turn makes an API call to a server (Vital Prime) which may host things like a predictive model, or be further integrated with an analytics backend like Apache Spark. In the sample app case however, it does a database query and returns one of a random collection of "Yo Mama..." jokes, which, although quite juvenile, I find always amusing when read by the Echo's flat but vaguely positive affect. All the source code is up on github here: https://github.com/vital-ai/vital-examples/tree/master/amazon-echo-humor-app With some description on my blog here: http://inc.ogni.to/2015/07/amazon-echo-tells-yo-mama-jokes.html and technical details here: http://inc.ogni.to/2015/07/building-an-amazon-echo-app-with-vital-ai.html Hope someone may find this helpful or at least amusing! We're currently integrating an Echo app with Raspberry Pi, and should have another example soon. Marc Hadfield http://vital.ai