Add voice and microphone input documentation and/or support to the simulator

[staminna]

Hi

I need enlightenment. Isn't the simulation it supposed to work without owning the actual Echo?
The examples don't "speak" and the microphone input seems to be text.

Thanks

[dblock]

There're plenty of Echo apps that do that without an actual echo, for example Reverb.
Android, iPhone. But they all have to use the Alexa platform itself, and this app sits on the other side. Maybe there's a way to just add that to the simulator, transcribe speach-to-text and make a query? Today you can build, deploy and run a service built on alexa-app-server on the other side and drive it from Reverb, ie. without an actual echo.

It would be great if someone (you?) could contribute documentation on how to take voice here.

[benedekh]

Related project from which some ideas might be gathered: https://github.com/alexa/alexa-avs-sample-app