Developing apps for Amazon Alexa - so called skills.
Questions tagged [alexa-app]
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Recording voice clips in Alexa Custom Skill
Is there any way to record/stream audio clips from Alexa to send them to a backend service?
For example, how do I build a skill which records voice memos and sends them to a backend service to be stored, and read later?
Cannot currently find any…
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Unable to process alexa intent
My code is not running, can anybody help.
Unable to speak out the text, can i return handler input response. The test function is a http call which may take tieme.
function test(url, number)
{
return 5;
}
function speak(handlerInput) {
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Prateek Rathore
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Linear flow of multiple intent is not working
I am working on a project of Amazon Alexa of booking a table in a restaurant and I have four intents:
makeReservation
futureOrCurrentLocation
getRestaurantName
selectRestaurants
I am facing one issue that the linear flow of intent is not working.…
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Can we pass alexa serial number in alexa intent?
I want to uniquely identify the alexa intent, from which alexa serial number this specific intent is coming from. I have all the alexa serial number added in my database ,it is also mapped to some other table using foreign key.whenever any alexa…
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Add API KEY to a Get request for Alexa Skill
Im trying to add the API key to my Get request below? I have an example without the API key working below.
This is my Node.js code that is supposed to parse the JSON.
{ await…
Novelty Chronical
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Pull from a Parsed JSON with Data formatted in JSON like this?
How would you pull from this JSON for my Variable "outputSpeech" showing below? I think the warning in this JSON is throwing me off . See background for working examples i've used for other JSON's formatted differently.
await…
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Is it possible to put a separate export function inside of an Alexa Skill?
I am very new to coding and trying to learn, so please bear with me.
I am attempting to create a very basic Alexa Skill that:
Asks a few questions
Then sends an email with a little information gathered from the Alexa Skill via AWS-Lambda using…
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Alexa session remains open with no prompt to the user. Why does certification feedback fail?
Amazon is telling "submission has failed the certification process".
If I repromt the same text in speak and repromt
.speak(speechOutput)
.reprompt(speechOutput)
After the skill completes a task, the session remains open with no prompt to the…
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Alexa Skills: How to insert a AMAZON.yesintent and AMAZON.nointent in this example?
This Alexa skill provides information about paperback or online books.This is just an example, not the real thing. So, here's an example
User: "Alexa, find the best book with one author."
Alexa: "OK!, here's the book blah blah."
Alexa: "Would you…
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Node/React Login System supporting OAuth2 for Alexa/Google Actions development
Does anyone know of any open source solutions for implementing Alexa or Google Actions account linking ?
Using
passport.js for Express routes to support social login
npm oauth2-server to implement oauth endpoints
I've put together my experiences…
Steve Ryan
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During Alexa Discovery tower fan not showing up
During Alexa discovery process, we need to send device details and their capabilities. I am sending light and fan details. Light gets showed up in Alexa App but not the fan. Can you please help me to find what I am doing wrong with the following…
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Alexa Skill Language
Is there any possibility to switch the language for skills? It seems to me that alexa directly uses german as well as english but using alexa over a skill, english is the preferred language. So slots are not beeing recognized properly
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Alexa - Using a slot right after the invocation for skill-internal routing
I have skill with an Invocation like this: "Alexa, ask SuperDuperEvent".
But I want to be able to do this: "Alexa, ask SuperDuperEvent location". Where location is going to be a city.
Because my Skill is heavily location based I need to know the…
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Virtual devices for testing alexa smart home skill
I am working on Amazon smart home skill for controlling the smart home appliances. I am done with creating a skill for that. Now I want to test my skill with any type of virtual device. Is there any way (or virtual devices) for testing the smart…
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First alexa skill
I am trying to develop my first Alexa skill using Node.js, and every time I try to test it I get "There was a problem with the requested skill's response".
I am trying create a random restaurant generator. Pretty simple its an array of restaurants,…
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