[djhworld]

I'm pretty sure there are a bunch of applications ("skills") out there already that do the first one in your list.

Third idea is really interesting though, maybe calling the emergency services could be good in that situation too

[smacktoward]

#3 turns out to be complicated to do in practice, because the API Alexa exposes to allow third-party "skills" to handle voice commands requires them to be phrased in a pretty specific format that includes the name of the skill (see https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-sk...). Which is a big ask for a user in a high-stress emergency situation, especially if the skill is one they aren't going to have been routinely interacting with before then. (And a 911 type application is sort of the definition of an app the user will not be routinely interacting with.)

I tinkered a little bit with this idea when the Echo Dot came out, but these limitations more or less killed my interest in exploring the concept further.