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Current application is a 'Russian Jokes' Alexa skill, which tells the user jokes in Russian language.
Jokes are taken from third party external service via simple HTTP GET method returning a simple JSON object containing a joke text. Then text is transformed to speech using the Amazon Polly service. Resulting MP3 is placed to the S3 bucket.
Finally alexa plays MP3 using the SSML (Speech Synthesis Markup Language) <audio/> tag.

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"Russian Jokes" Alexa skill in Alexa Skills catalog.

Update: skill was rejected from catalog :(

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