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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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update Interaction Model without resubmission

My intention is my users can insert some intent to my alexa skill using my applications. So I need to change the intent schema and sample utterance of my alexa skill dynamically. Is there any way to update intent schema and sample utterances without…
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Alexa account linking error with Google OAuth

When using Google OAuth for my Alexa account linking it worked fine on Android and some iOS devices but a user reported the following: Error 403: disallowed_useragent "This user-agent is not permitted to make an OAuth authorization request to…
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Set a reminder/timer on an Alexa Custom Skill?

I'd like an alarm to go off based on my custom alexa skill. Is it possible to set a timer similar to manually asking Alexa to set a timer through a skill?
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Alexa skill doesn't interpret some stuff correctly

Basically, my skill has two intents, let's say "intent1" and "intent2". Here's my issue. When I type a phrase that doesn't have a valid intent, instead of going to the help menu like (I think?) it should, it just goes right to intent2 or intent1. I…
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alexa skill user input for spelling out letters

I'd like Alexa to be able to accept a variable-length list of English letters to my custom skill. It will allow users to search based on a string. There's two steps to this: Getting good representation for individual letters that Alexa can…
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Get unique device id for amazon echo

I am writing a custom skill for the amazon echo and I need to get a unique device id so I can register then product to my service. Everything I read says that you cannot get the id from the device. Has amazon changed this? Is there a work around to…
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How to amazon alexa api for a web or mobile app?

I want to use amazon alexa api for my website/ mobile application. I would like to know if it is possible to use and how to integrate alexa, given that I develop my custom skill.
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Customize slot values of amazon alexa skill intent per session or user

I'm developing amazon alexa skill and I would like to customize values of Custom Slot Type for each user of my skill. I can't fill the list of values of my slot with all possible values because it will be too big and the quality of speach…
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Linking Netatmo Weather Station to Amazon Echo (Alexa)

[Full tutorial in the answered question below. Feedback welcome!] I am trying to create an AWS Lambda function to use for an Amazon Alexa skill to fetch weather information from my Netatmo weatherstation. Basically, I need to connect to the Netatmo…
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Creating a survey in amazon Alexa with open ended questions

I am trying to create a simple survey skill in Amazon Alexa where Alexa asks the user a question and they respond in any manner they feel like (open-ended). For example, if Alexa asks "Do you cook?", a user may respond in many ways such as "Yes I do…
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Make Alexa Announce the notification through a custom skill by calling any APIs from Backend without saying 'Alexa Read my notifications'?

I am building a custom skills for one of my use case. I am trying to implement a feature based on a token number. If token number 2 got his order, I want Alexa to announce about the next token number. Let's say for example, 'Token Number 3, your…
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Alexa Account Linking - "Invalid account linking credentials"

I am creating an Alexa skill with account linking. I got the Linking Authorization Code and exchanged it for an Access Token. then, I tried to put all of the paramaters: code, access token, skill ID, into the Alexa Skill Activation API. I always get…
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how to send a http request to my alexa skill and get a response from it?

Objective - I created a basic Alexa skill using the Alexa hosted option, and I want to send an HTTP request to my Alexa back end in text or in JSON and get the response as a text without using an Alexa device. question 1- is this even possible with…
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Alexa skill: Where to store credentials?

I created an Alexa skill (hosted by Amazon) and would like to call my external API which requires an access token. Where do I store this token? I know that one can add environment variables to lambdas, but I could not find the skill lambda in my AWS…
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Can I determine whether an Alexa Request was triggered by a routine or a user?

I have a need to differentiate between an explicit request and a request from a routine. Here is an example. Let's say I am controlling a smart light. The light is able to detect occupancy. If a user comes in the room and says turn on the…
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