Developing apps for Amazon Alexa - so called skills.
Questions tagged [alexa-app]
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Amazon Pay permissions not showing
I have a skill which utilizes Amazon pay and other permissions (user's mobile number email and name, device address, alexa notifications,Skills Personalization).
All permission are visible on the Alexa app/web interface but Amazon pay isn't and on…

Oumayma MEDDEB
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Bulk Edit for annotation set in alexa ASR not working
I am interested in using the annotation set feature that is part of model evaluation in the Alexa developer console. Currently, I am able to import in the zip file containing all the mp3 files, however the "Expected Transcription" for each mp3 file…

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Using Alexa Capabilities within an Alexa skills
Alexa is able to find service providers and also call them. Is it possible to use this capability from an Alexa skill. For example could an Alexa skill find and call a near-by doctor upon request?

Dale Olsen
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Can I answer differently if get different slot value in same intent, AWS Alexa
What I am trying to achieve:
I am trying to answer differently if a get differently value for the same slot
Example:
I have made an intent with a slot having months of the year.
so when user says specific month i.e. March then i want to tell all the…

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Integration of IR-Blasters with Alexa Smart Home
My goal is to use Alexa Voice Service(AVS) to control TV,AC.. etc. through an IR blaster.
I have my own IoT application which can be used to on-board the said IR blaster and control it manually. The application supports other devices as well. In a…

Poorna
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strange behavior with addElicitSlotDirective
Something strange is happening in my skill.
I isolated the error into a different skill.
The skill id: amzn1.ask.skill.6918614f-1f20-4ea3-bad4-b2284a296938
In the skill, I have one intent- HelloWorldIntent.
The intent has 2 slots- lala and bibi.
The…

Shir Ganot
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Alexa is not returning the numbers and calculation in the response, only the text?
I am learning how to develop Skills with Alexa. I followed a Lynda course to build the My Calculator skill, however ran into a problem where the numbers and results are not returned. I double checked my code, and tried it on Echoism.io, and same…

Roy
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Make Alexa Skill play audio
I've tried very hard to figure out how to make my Alexa skill to play audio but I cannot find a solution. I emailed the amazon developer support and they sent me the following code. I would love it if someone could explain to me the logic behind…

Dani Shaykho
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How to make this alexa skill recognize both Intents
This is my first Alexa skill and I'm just trying to understand basic workflow here.
In the following code if you use FoodPointsIntent it works, but the TestIntent just returns (and says) "triggered TestIntent". I'm confused as they are the same…

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Audio tag is not working in Alexa's SSML, Alexa's reminder API
I am trying to create a reminder using Alexa's Reminder API in my custom Alexa Skill and in the SSML, I am passing the speak tag and in that, I have few words and audio tag too.
const reminderRequest = {
trigger: {
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Vishal Sholkay
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Alexa podcast skill stops playing after 1 second
This was working until a recent firmware update. Since then the stream starts playing and then stops almost immediately.
handlerInput.responseBuilder
.speak(`starting ${stream.metadata.title}`)
.addAudioPlayerPlayDirective('REPLACE_ALL',…

jblanco813
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Alexa Remainder API (REST API) - Invalid bearer token
I am trying to send the Alert/Remainder via POSTMan to my skill.
Option 1: Authentication token API with Scope "alexa:skill_messaging"
POST /auth/o2/token HTTP/1.1
Host: api.amazon.com
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
User-Agent:…

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Alexa - Not recognizing Invocation Name
I am having trouble with the alexa skill the invocation name is not getting recognized in device, however in test simulator it works fine. I am clueless about this. I have made sure The skill language and device language are same. I have already…

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How to build an Alexa skill with multiple developers?
I'm struggling to handle the pipeline building an Alexa skill across several developers and existing docs just aren't cutting it.
We have four developers and when we check our code into our git repo, checkout new branches and so forth, we're…

Mike
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Alexa Skill developed in lambda, MQTT async communication
I am developing an Alexa Skill using AWS lambda an ask-sdk.
In this skill I need to communicate using mqtt, I added the mqtt library to the project.
To do this type of communication we need async communication.
I follow the next Amazon…

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