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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.NET cannot create a reminder : Invalid Bearer Token

I want to create push notifications to my Alexa Devide. Due the push notification program is closed I am trying to create reminders. The final idea is to create an Azure Function with this code and being called when a TFS Build faild. I'm using…
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Is it possible to pause and resume the skill programmatically?

I'm developing an Alexa skill that supports exercise training. While people are doing exercise, Alexa plays a background audio. I'm wondering if it is possible to pause training and resume later. For example, suppose the training last for 60…
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Why does the Fallback Intent not get called if you say ONE random word?

Whenever I go inside the skill and say one completely random word, the Fallback Intent is not triggered. The echo will just emit a sound and in the Alexa simulator, it would just show nothing. But I know for a fact that I am still inside the skill…
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Alexa - Ruby - Playing Audio Files

I am trying to play an audio file through Alexa. My backend in Ruby on Rails and I am using alexa-ruby gem. I was able to produce speeches via ask and tell directive like this def index parsed_request = JSON.parse(request.body.read) alexa =…
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Multiple Authorities in resolutionsPerAuthority on an Alexa skill request

I have been working on an Alexa skill and till date it worked fine but today i have encountered a strange issue. The similar issue can be seen in other skills as well. The issue is that i am getting multiple authorities in resolutionsPerAuthority of…
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How to tell if Alexa emits nothing?

If I tell Alexa to emit text in certain languages (Chinese, Russian, etc.) or emojis, it will say nothing to the user. Does the Alexa API have a way to indicate a string will be converted to nothing/silence before or after emit? Alternately, is…
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Creating Alexa Skill Notifications (like quotemaker)

I need help in sending notifications to alexa device of a user (echo, dot, etc.. not the other non amazon alexa devices) from alexa skill i am building. I see quote maker doing it but, how its doing it is a blackbox. For example if the user ordered…
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Determine Alexa users device Name/type

While building a skill for Amazon Alexa, I would like to know the name of the device (or a code, manufacturer, etc). This is desired for analytics. We can get the supported interfaces from the JSON request to the webhook, but I am also interested…
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Unable to activate test stimulator for alexa skill

I have been into alexa development and recently I have encountered a never before situation. While trying to enable testing on a new skill, I am getting the following error on the test tab : There was a failure enabling your skill, please try…
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Fire intent or function after audio playback ends Alexa skill node.js

I need to perform the following sequence of events in my alexa skill and I am currently unable to determine how to do this. Play some audio clip (longer than 90 seconds). Ask the user if they are ready for the next audio clip. Play another audio…
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Online-Edit Amazon Lambda function with alexa-sdk

I am creating an Alexa skill and I am using Amazon Lambda to handle the intents. I found online several tutorials and decided to use NodeJs with the alexa-sdk. After installing the alexa-sdk with npm, the zipped archive occupied a disksize of ~6MB.…
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Alexa Skill An exception occurred while dispatching the request to the skill

Firstly, If I use the Simulator on the alexa app development page everything works fine, although the request looks some what different. If I say to my Alexa Device "Ask appName {x} and {y}" then my web service gets called with a error message "An…
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Ask-cli lambda command uses wrong region setting

I am trying to set up a workflow via the ask-cli for developing an Amazon skill with an Amazon lambda backend. I have created a skill and it works fine when using "ask api ..." commands, but when I use an "ask lambda ..." command, such as "ask…
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Alexa-SDK Audio Issue

I've been trying to make an alexa skill that involves audio. I found a great guide here. Here is their example code: var stateByUser = {}; var podcastURL =…
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Link Amazon Alexa Skill with few external services accounts

Can I link my Amazon Alexa Skill with two external services? I want to aggregate data from both of them but and I need to use two different access tokens. Can I get them by using Alexa Account Linking?
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