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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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Delete Alexa History

Is there any way to access alexa history for a particular app form within that app(or lambda) programatically? For e.g If I have library app and want to ensure alexa identifies my request history and tells me which book I already ordered/read…
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Alexa lambda function is able to execute all intents except custom one?

The launch (New Session), unhandled, and Amazon default intents (cancel, help, stop) are working properly when I test them in the service simulator, but any one that I write doesn't seem to work. Below is an example of a test intent: var handlers =…
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SSML Audio instead of Words

I'm currently new into nodejs, but I've been trying to make an Alexa Skill using the Nodejs Trivia Sample provided on GitHub. Nothing has been modified in the code, just the content (questions). The change is, instead of Question (words), I would…
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Alexa and built in slot types picking up garbage

I have an Alexa skill that asks for at least one sports team (teamOne), and optionally two sports teams (teamOne and teamTwo). I'm using the built in slot type AMAZON.SportsTeam for both of these slots. I'm noticing it sometimes picks up something…
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Alexa video skill, lambda function is not getting triggered

I have my videos hosted on my server. I have created a video skill to play those videos on fire TV using alexa video skill API. However, my lambda function is not getting triggered when I say "Alexa, play ". Is there anything else that needs to be…
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How to check the signature of the request from Amazon Alexa using Coldfusion and OpenSSL

Amazon's documentation on how to verify is posted here: https://developer.amazon.com/docs/custom-skills/host-a-custom-skill-as-a-web-service.html#checking-the-signature-of-the-request I'm stuck trying to get this to work: Once you have determined…
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Alexa echo show highlight text

I am creating a skill for Echo Show and was able to display text using BodyTemplate1. Now I wanted to highlight each word while Alexa utters those words. Could anyone know how to do this?
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What is advantage in using alexa-sdk for alexa skill development?

Am new to Amazon alexa skill development and able to see alexa-sdk node modules is available for development. But not able to find more detail in documentation. Do i need to proceed the development with alexa-sdk or with out alexa-sdk.? could any…
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Account linking fails if I re-enable immediately after diasbling the skill

I am developing an alexa skill that requires account linking. The Account linking succeeds first 2 times(enable skill-disable it- and again re-enable the skill). Account linking fails only when I re-enable immediately after disabling the skill. I…
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Alphavantage datatype conflict and endpoint URL error on deploying app to alexa

I am currently working on an alexa app and recently started using the alphavantage API. I am unable to incorporate the JSON datatype format into my javascript code, the resultant endpoint URL always has the datatyple as csv. System info: Windows 10,…
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slot.value returns all utterances rather than just those from slot

I have an intent set up with a list of the planets in the solar system. { "intent": "PlanetIntent", "slots": [ { "name": "Planet", "type": "LIST_OF_PLANETS" } ] }, I'm trying to…
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Alexa doesnt send request with AMAZON.StopIntent

Alexa doesnt send an IntentRequest containing the AMAZON.StopIntent if i try to invoke it using my echo device or the service simulator. I tried to invoke it using the common utterances listed here, but i never get a request. It only makes my echo…
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IntentRequest triggered by Response - without user-invocation

lets say i have a skill with 2 custom intents, 'FirstIntent' and 'SecondIntent'. SecondIntent also has a required slot, 'reqSlot'. Now, i would like to sequence my intents. After my skill sent the FirstIntent-response, i would like Alexa to send a…
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How to get amazon user email with Java in Alexa Skill

I'm new in Alexa Skill development and I'm trying to do a skill in which Alexa answers with my email. I'm developing the skill in Java and I've just been able to take the user session id with: getSession().getUser().getUserId() Getting…
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Alexa to give a response dictated by date

I'm seeing a lot of tutorials and examples on taking date input from the user, but I want Alexa to check the date on its own and if the date matches a certain day, she will have a different set of responses to give the user. I'm trying to do this in…
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