Developing apps for Amazon Alexa - so called skills.
Questions tagged [alexa-app]
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Not able to redirect back to alexa after successful login from my application
When I click "Enable" for my skill from https://alexa.amazon.com I am redirected to my application login page, after entering email/password and successful authentication I am redirecting user…

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Amazon Alexa: slot types
Can any one tell me the slot type of the intent which can have long sentences in the English(India) Language? In English(US) I use AMAZON.StreetAddress for this purpose. Thanks.
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Latest Versions of alexa-appkit and alexa-skills kit
From where does one obtain the latest versions of alexa-appkit-xx.xx.xx.jar and alexa-skills-kit-xx.xx.xx.jar?

Scott Guthery
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Alexa app working locally, returning early on Lambda
So I have multiple calls chained all working and posting the update to a google spreadsheet when I run locally, but when I try and run it on Lambda it just returns early without any errors.
skillService.intent("sampleIntent", {
...
},
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Respone.say not working in Promise for Alexa Skill
i´m working on an Alexa Skill with nodejs.
When I want to get a response i don´t get any message when trying to get it with response.say(value). But when trying with console.log(value) i get the right response.
alexaApp.intent("Plot", {
"slots":…

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Alexa Skill : How to invoke custom intent from a template?
I'm trying to create an alexa skill with the help of 'Survey' template, which uses personalization + voice recognition based auth.
personalization + voice recognition based auth works fine. I have added a new intent 'Introduce' which needs to be…

Rahul S L
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I am developing an Alexa skill. I want Alexa to utter a stored integer value in her speech output. (Using PYTHON)
I am trying to build an Alexa skill. I need one of the intent to multiply a slot value with a constant and store the product under some variable. I want the Alexa to speak the output this variable in her output sentence.
I have tried this but no…

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Alexa skill suggestion using python frontend and PHP httpd endpoint
I'm exploring the possibility of a new Alexa service. I know some Python (more than Node) and I can do a backend/endpoint for JSON results in PHP.
My basic idea to start with would be to tell Alexa my own activation word (or more probably "Alexa…

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Maximum duration of user speech input in seconds for Amazon Alexa skill
I am creating an Amazon Alexa skill and would like to know the maximum duration of user input in seconds that a slot can hold. More specifically the AMAZON.SearchQuery type slot.

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Amazon Alexa Skill: Save user preferences like API Key not through code
Within a custom Alexa skill hosted as a lambda service, I need to call an external API with an API key, that changes for each device. So I can't put the URL or the API Key hard-coded into the skill's code.
Whats the best practice to store user…

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Change color of individual list items in AlexaTextList?
Is there a way to specify a color for the text in specific items in an AlexaTextList? In my example, I'd like to, based on a dynamic value in my lambda_handler, specific whether each text list item is red, yellow, or green. This is the template for…

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Make Alexa speak before executing action with Python SDK
The use case is pretty similar to things that are working already out there. I want Alexa to say something and then execute an action. For example, with the Spotify integration I can ask Alexa to play a playlist:
Alexa play rock playlist
Alexa says…

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Updating a Certified-but-not-yet-Published Alexa skill
My first Alexa skill is almost ready to go public, but I seem to have gotten myself a bit tangled... I'm sure I'm missing something obvious.
I asked Amazon to Certify But Not Publish this skill, to check that I wasn't missing anything obvious. They…

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Alexa Skill searching spreadsheets
I want to create an Alexa Skill for our community summercamp. We plan a lot of activities for the kids and hence have a lot of stuff we have to somehow organize. My idea was to create an alexa skill that searches a spreadsheet, where all our stuff +…

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How can we open Amazon Alexa app from our ionic app?
I want to open Amazon Alexa app from my ionic app? Implement the Alexa app flow as the primary flow, and the LWA flow as a fallback for when the Alexa app isn't installed.

Abhinav Saxena
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