Developing apps for Amazon Alexa - so called skills.
Questions tagged [alexa-app]
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workaround for alexa not understanding the word 'postpaid' in my skill
Alexa just doesn't understand the word 'postpaid' and I've tried it a million times in my skill. I also tried "Alexa, Simon says postpaid" but it repeats something else other than postpaid, I don't know why. My sample utterance is like this "what is…
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Nodejs - Get the instance_url from salesforce oauth response in Amazon Alexa skill or an API to get the instance_url
I have developed a simple alexa skill using nodejs which uses salesforce and have been successful linking the account(oauth 2.0). However what i want to do is to invoke any salesforce API and for this i require the instance_url that is returned in…
Akhil Soman
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Amazon Alexa Custom skill: Respond to intent using standard short sound
I'm developing a custom skill. For communication with Alexa, I use Amazon Echo Dot device. Sometimes Alexa answers with a standard short sound in the end. For example, if a session is closed because there was no answer on a question…
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Alexa Node Skill Questions / Prompts
So after scavenging the web, I am unable to find an answer to my problem.
Basically, I want to produce the following result in Alexa, and I want to know if its possible and the direction I should be looking in on how to achieve.
Skill / Intent…
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Alexa Unable to link your OAuth Skill
I am trying to link my skill to my OAuth 2.0 server.
I am using "Auth Code Grant".
In my server I receive from Alexa this:
{ client_id: 'alexa-skill',
response_type: 'code',
state:…
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Alexa Skill response is showing nothing when doing in setTimeout
Stuck from day. Problem is like this.
var alexa = require('alexa-app');
// Define an alexa-app
var myapp = new alexa.app('myapp');
myapp.intent('WelcomeIntent', function(request,response) {
console.log(request);
response.say("This is not…
Ajit kohir
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Unable to start client while Alexa setup on Raspberry Pi
I am trying to setup Alexa on my Raspberry Pi by following instruction given here
But I am getting Java Exception while starting Client (mvn exec:exec)
Below is the terminal Output when I executed mvn exec:exec, I have tried all the related threads…
Akshay Khale
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Networking issue with alexa-app and request-promise
I have to be missing something really simple here, but here goes.
I am just now starting to learn Alexa development, and found the alexa-app module which seems to make Alexa programming really straight-forward - except for this networking issue I'm…
Chris Koenig
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Alexa skill Rest API
Can we use Rest API instead of using Lambda. The reason im asking is because we got the request, we know what alexa accepts as a response, and we know that it is a POST. So connect all of these into REST API. The reason im asking is that the whole…
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How to Automate uploading skill in Alexa
I want to automate the uploading of Alexa Skill. How can we automate uploading of the Alexa Skill. I have a website in which there are 2 fields (AppName,Lamba Function Url) and a button. When user clicks on a button than I want to create the skill…
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Need HELP in storing the state of the track being played for Alexa Skill
Hey I am developing an Alexa skill which i will be publishing at a later point in which based on the track the user requires Alexa would play that specific track with the help of our api which returns the track url . I was able to implement this . I…
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