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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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Play album from Amazon catalog via custom Alexa skill

I'm new to Alexa development. I created an Alexa skill hooking up to an AWS lambda function that uses Nodejs. My goal for this skill is to find out what the album of the day is based on a feed I have (done) and read a blurb about it (done) and play…
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Can't submit Alexa skill - interaction model (beta) tick is still grey. Model was built successfully

I can't submit the Alexa Skill, because the Interaction model (BETA Builder) tick is grey - and therefore also the "Testing" tick is grey. But the model is always built successfully. Do you have any idea what this might be? Thanks a lot. Alexa…
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Cannot get ID from the intentrequest

thank you for your help in advance! I have an intent and a custom slot value for this intent, the slot value is called "event" which is a value from my "LIST_OF_EVENTS" list. In this list, I have many options for slots, but more importantly, I have…
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Alexa Skill offline

Does anyone here have experience building an Alexa Skill that can be accessed if the device is not online? Need something for a demo and trying to understand the possibilities. I have built something on SaySpring, but it just does not quite have…
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Convert Javascript variables to alexa intents

I have a simple java script program that I would like to transfer over the the Amazon Echo, however I cannot figure out how to transfer over some variables from text based to voice. for example: var rhyme = prompt('Enter the word to rhyme with');…
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How to integrate amazon echo to a home automation system.?

I've built a home automation system that is currently being used by many customers. The home automation system consists of a central hub which always connected to a cloud server and also it controls various node devices.I've also developed a mobile…
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ALexa Skill C# Queue multiple Audio Files

we currently try to play multiple audio files from an Alexa Skill at a certain intent. We sadly only are able to play one audio file. Our code for that is the following response.Response.Directives.Add(new AudioPlayerPlayDirective() { …
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Pass extra custom device state to Alexa custom skill

I have multiple devices streaming audio to my server. My server is sending the audio to my custom skill How do I pass extra state about the room the device is in to the adapter e.g "room name"? my multipart request includes: { 'context': [ …
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How to get an Alexa Skill to stream an mp3 to device

Friends, I'm working on an Alexa skill that attempts to stream an mp3 file from a publicly accessible S3 bucket. My lambda function is working correctly, and returns an audio directive. I'm using the npm package alexa-sdk. However when the response…
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Can I use my own voice recognition API for Arabic language in Alexa skill?

I already have a voice recognition API for Arabic language but Alexa does not support Arabic language so can I use my API?
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Develop alarm skill with Alexa Device except voice input

I am new to Amazon Alexa having one query about AVS & Alexa device, How to enable Alexa to be enable to speak without voice input? Is this possible to give input by any other way except voice and take output from Alexa device in voice format?
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Alexa Session Attribute not persisting across Intent Functions

I am trying to pass on an array of strings from the 'LaunchRequest' to the 'TellAJoke' intent. My problem is that this.attributes['joke'] is always undefined in the 'TellAJoke' function. 'LaunchRequest': function() { var url =…
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Alexa slot AMAZON.DATE handle dates without years

I am building an Alexa skill and using AMAZON.DATE slot type to get a date. My problem is that when a user says a date without a year, Alexa processes it and returns the date string with a future date. Example - Today is 2017-09-20, User asks Alexa…
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Can we control Philips Hue lights with RaspberryPi based Alexa

I have seen multiple links about controlling philips hue lights uisng Amazon Echo. I wanted to know if we can do the same with self built alexa made using RaspberryPi instead of real amazon echo ? Is there any difference between both…
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how to know which echo dot is calling my alexa service

We are trying to build a alexa skill for our office building so that an echo dot is deployed at the entrance of each floor and help people identify the directions of washrooms and conference rooms and many other. We were sucessful in implementing…
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