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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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SSL exception: "received close_notify during handshake" upon initializing Alexa Skill Management API (SMAPI)

I am trying to use SMAPI to interact with my Alexa Skill using Java. The following code fails: package io.mirko.impl; import com.amazon.ask.model.services.skillManagement.SkillManagementService; import com.amazon.ask.smapi.SmapiClients; import…
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Alexa SmartHome Skills : Issue with device discovery

I have written an Alexa smart home skills. When I try to discover the device using the Alexa test or from the mobile app, the lambda is triggered. The lambda is getting successfully executed, but I get below error in App or test in Alexa console. I…
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How to use Intent Chaining with Intent Confirmation in Alexa?

I'm trying to mix dialog management and intent chaining. I have disabled auto delegation. But I'm stuck at, When the user fills all the slot values and then I use intent confirmation and prompt him if the data is correct. If the user says "No". I…
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I have created https endpoints for alexa custom skills using PHP. It was working fine in test simulator But not working on alexa app

I have created custom skills and https endpoints using PHP. I have tested skills on simulator it was working. I am able to see my skills on alexa android app and i have enabled it. But not getting valid response.
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using Alexa.net - can i call an intent from code?

I am trying to build a quiz game using alexa.net. However i´ve run into a potential problem. Whenever the user has answered a question and the answer has been evaluated i want to immediately ask another question. As it is right now, the user has to…
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Alexa Lambda function to get user's full name

Using the Alexa Custom skills, and AWS Lambda Functions, I want to be able to just get the user's name from their account. I already set up permissions and account linking and verified that it works. However, there are no resources available for…
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Export a Dialogflow agent and import into Alexa

I have a Dialogflow agent that I would like to import into the Alexa console and ultimately deployed on the Echo. Referencing Dialogflow's documentation, it says You will get some files in the zip archive: IntentSchema.json, SampleUtterances.baf…
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How to get the user Input from the alexa skill

When I ask something with the Alexa, it returns only the Intents and Entities based on the user input and I can't see the full user input.
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Returning handler.ResponseBuilder from promise.then() method

In one of the intent handler for my Alexa skill I have to return response once my promise is resolved. Code looks like this : var rcvPromise = receiveMsgQ(); rcvPromise.then(function(speechText) { console.log('rcv Promise resolved with…
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How to expand custom slot types for Alexa Skill?

I want to ask for a flight number. Flight numbers are composed of a short code like EZY, AFR, DLH or CCA and a 3 to 5 digit flight number. Because I have these limited set of codes combined with a large set of potential numbers, I don't know how to…
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Can we elicit slot of a different intent in Alexa

If our backend receive a request for say AMAZON.YesIntent or any other custom intent. Can we Elicit slot of a different intent than the triggered intent as response. Ex: ... user: Yes (Amazon.YesIntent is mapped) Alexa: Which city do you want…
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How to make Alexa countdown in seconds

I want to be able to have alexa (audibly) countdown 15 seconds in my skill. I know I can just in SSML. But that isn't audible. I also know I can just do: 15 14 or better yet (to account…
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Alexa Skills Kit: How to call custom intent from another intent in ASK sdk V2

Hi I have been using and developing skills on Alexa since quite few months. Recently I updated to the ask sdk version 2. I find everything cool and stuck nowhere. I couldn't find a way to emit an intent now. Like earlier we were able to call Intent…
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Calling a REST API from a Lambda function

I am trying to build a skill that calls a REST API to get data. I am using the HelloWorld sample and modifying it to fit my need. I am using the Request node (node.js) to issue the request. However, for the hell of me I can't get it to work. I see…
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Amazon Alexa Skills Fallback intent not working

I'm reading the docs for Alexa Skills and there seems to be a fallback intent https://developer.amazon.com/docs/custom-skills/standard-built-in-intents.html#fallback I've turned it on in my app (added to the list of intents), but when I enter an…
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