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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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AWS S3 File for Flashbriefing Alexa Skill

I host some RSS Files on my S3 Bucket. This Files are currently public. Because i want to use this RSS-Files in my Flashbriefing Alexa Skills. Using Flashbriefing Alexa Skills, i doesn't have a Lambda Function! (as in other kind of skills). In an…
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alexa skill to place call

I have a database of customers details with their phone numbers, I want to develop a skill where my customers can place calls by searching that database. I referred this link and found that calling skill can be implemented, but as far as I know,…
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Alexa - response to AudioPlayer.PlaybackStarted cause error

In my Alexa skill, I'm broadcasting an MP3 file through AudioPlayer Directive. As the file starts playing, I get: { "type": "AudioPlayer.PlaybackStarted", "requestId": "requestId", "timestamp": "2018-02-28T13:17:54Z", "locale": "en-US", …
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Is there a neat way to organize Node.js Alexa code

Is there a neat way to organize Node.js Alexa code. As my intents in the interaction model increases, the lines of code in the index.js of the lambda increased to a point where it is unmanageable. Is there an example of how to structure Alexa…
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400 Bad Request error on a LaunchRequest with flask-ask

I'm trying to debug a small Alexa skill that is build with the flask-ask framework. My problem is that I keep getting a 400 error on a simple LaunchRequest. The relevant intent function is this: @ASK.launch def launch(): """Welcome & ask for…
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Can Alexa Skills have a list and a phrase slot?

Is it possible to have an intent that has a list and an phrase (or two lists but the other is dynamically created)? Here's an example utterance I was hoping to make: How many {foodstuff} does {someone} have? {foodstuff} could be a list of [cookies,…
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I need slot type of intent for my Alexa skill

I am creating a skill but I need a slot type for my intent (which takes a complete sentence as input) but it should be in Indian. Like: AMAZON.LITERAL It only supports English(U.K) and English(US). I need any slot type which takes a complete…
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Alexa Skill with Multiple Yes No Questions

I have a workflow that asks different Yes/No questions. Using the Amazon built in Yes and No intents, how can I use them for multiple questions. Here is an example of the flowchart. I create a state called "Injury" in order have different handlers…
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Alexa Node js Lambda Function is giving response null

I'm returning a response from Nodejs Lambda function and is giving a blank response like this : { "version": "1.0", "sessionAttributes": { "outputSpeech": { "type": "PlainText", "text": "Welcome to Alexa Skill" }, …
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Alexa Skill Configurable Settings Possible?

I am making a skill which requires a string parameter that i set by the user. I know it is possible by letting the user say the string - however this is not preferable due to the nature of this string being for usernames - so it wouldn't be very…
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There was a issue with the requested skill's response when using Alexa Simulator but works with Manual JSON

I am having a few issues with my new created alexa skills. Typing the request in the text box in Alexa Simulator always returns "There was a problem with the requested skill's response". With the output JSON bellow. { "body":{ …
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How to show the current playing item (song) in player or queue screen in alexa app

I am able to send the songs to amazon echo devices and the song is playing. I am not understanding what i have to send to show the song in the player or queue screen in alexa app as it is coming to other music apps like saavn, spotify etc. Please…
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Alexa skill to change a variable on a website

I have an alexa skill and a website. I need to send requests from the alexa skill to change a certain variable on a website. for examble, I have a name on the website lets say "michael", I want to be able to change that name to "zack" from alexa.
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I have a Amazon's Echo Dot, and I have several Echo devices too, i want to differentiate them

​I'm using Amazon's Echo Dot, and I have several Echo devices. I want to identity that, from which echo dot invokes a request, is it possible to find whether which, echo dot makes request, with any unique identity?
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Why am I not receiving the slot?

My request is as follows: "request": { "type": "IntentRequest", "requestId": "EdwRequestId.0941c2f8-30b3-4001-aa05-1cec3a715b05", "intent": { "name": "Buses", "slots": { "Heading": { "name": "Heading", "value":…
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