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Alexa Skill is Amazon’s voice service

Alexa is Amazon’s voice service and the brain behind tens of millions of devices like the Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, and Echo Show. Alexa provides capabilities, or skills, that enable customers to create a more personalized experience. There are now tens of thousands of skills from companies like Starbucks, Uber, and Capital One as well as other innovative designers and developers.

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Alexa Custom Slot Type: No value in intent

I've already posted this question to the amazon developer forum but don't receive an answer there. I guess Stackoverflow should've been the first choice from the beginning: From my understanding if I use a Custom Slot Type even if the list of its…
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How to fix Warning: Application ID is not set?

I always get the error 'Application ID is not set' in my log files while I have set this ID like they say in this example: const APP_ID = 'amzn1.ask.skill.xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx'; How can I fix this problem?
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Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) and Utterances

I am developing a simple, custom skill for Alexa. I have it up and running, and hosting the handler on AWS Lambda. It's working fine except... In the test UI, if I enter a valid utterance, e.g., help, cancel, swim, run (two custom utterances),…
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Get unique device id for every amazon echo devices

I need to make a Custom Skill for the Alexa Skills Kit, which should be one echo device in every room. I need to get the device_id for every echo device. I heard this isn't possible, but maybe it changed, or if not is there any other way around.
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Can an Alexa custom skill get access to the voice stream/audio file of a user?

I would like to have a custom skill, but it would need direct access to the users voice (our output of a recorded audio). Can/will Alexa relay the stream rather than sending the request invocations (launch/intent/session-end)? I understand custom…
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Only getting single word parameters from Alexa Skills Kit

I'm writing an Alexa Skill, and I can only get single word parameters into my code. Here is the intent schema: { "intents": [ { "intent": "HeroQuizIntent", "slots": [ { "name": "SearchTerm", "type":…
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Getting an Alexa Slot value out of an intent

I'm working to build an Alexa skill and have run into a roadblock on getting my slot values out of the intent object. The intent object JSON looks like so: "intent": { "name": "string", "slots": { "string": { "name": "string", …
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How do I handle 'Yes'/'No' responses from the user in Custom Skill?

I am trying to build an alexa custom skill. I am facing an issue where I am trying to get Yes/No responses from the user for a question which the skill asks the user. Alexa: Would you like to know the rules of the game? User:
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How to get the account info of the user when the user uses an Alexa Skill

We are going to create an Alexa Skill that allows the user to control a Wi-Fi LED. Every time the user uses that Skill, we hope that we can get the user's account info in a callback of the SDK used in the AWS Lambda function for that skill. Like…
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Amazon Alexa - How to create Generic Slot

How can I create a generic slot for an Alexa skill? So that I can create my own Todo app and it will recognise the free form text.
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Programmatically Introduce Pauses or Long Delays into Alexa Skill Capturing Input

I work at a NLI company and I have just created a skill where I have pretty much an open mic session with our Alexa Skill through the Amazon Echo. Everything works fine and I can have an open dialog with our backend knowledge base, without having to…
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How to get AMAZON.QUERY input in multi turn

I am trying to create a Intent where skill can get Input from user until user says "finish".
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AWS Alexa skill linking with oauth 2

Hello to all I am new in Amazon Alexa, I have a work to Alexa Skill account linking using PHP with oauth 2.0. I have successfully configured all and also get code for Auth Code Grant but when I run my code in Chrome Browser it is generating Account…
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"Building skill schema failed" error while deploying alexa skill using ask-cli

I have a alexa skill live on amazon skill store. The interaction model of that skill was developed using the skill builder of alexa development portal and the lambda function was uploaded seperately. The skill is live and has many users. Recently I…
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ASK CLI to deploy to different environments?

Is it possible to use Alexa Skill Kit's ASK CLI deploy command to build, for example, a debug version of the app that deploys a development environment and a release version of the app that deploys to a test environment? My team and I are trying to…
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