How I Put Claude AI on My Alexa (and You Can Too)
How I Put Claude AI on My Alexa (and You Can Too) Build your own Alexa skill that talks to Claude in under an hour I wanted to ask my Alexa random questions and get genuinely good answers. Not the usual "Here's what I found on the web" followed by a Wikipedia summary. Real answers. Thoughtful answers. Claude-quality answers. So I built an Alexa skill called John Claude Van Dam that connects to Anthropic's Claude API. I ask Alexa a question, it hits Claude, and Alexa reads back a concise, natural-sounding answer. No screen needed. No app needed. Just voice in, answer out. The best part: it routes to different Claude models depending on how you phrase the request. Quick question? It uses Haiku (fast and cheap). Need more depth? Say "sonnet" and it uses Claude Sonnet. Want the full brainpower? Say "opus" and it hits Opus. Here's how it works in practice: "Alexa, ask John Claude van dam what colour is the sky" -- uses Haiku...
