This project is integrated Amazon Alexa in intel edison and adding camera hand gesture to trigger voice record.
demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXYwHmecxRE
https://communities.intel.com/message/400115#400115
This project is based on the Sam Machin project, the Alexa Pi for the Raspberry Pi, for the Intel Edison. Based on https://github.com/sammachin/AlexaPi
To build this project you'll need a USB sound card and USB camera support UVC. The Intel Edison doesn't have integrated sound card.
http://www.emutexlabs.com/ubilinux
https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/loading-debian-ubilinux-on-the-edison
https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/installing-libmraa-on-ubilinux-for-edison