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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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Fetch the slot value used for a previous intent(method) and use it in current method?

I am working on building an alexa skill where the requirement is to fetch the value for previous slot.. User: Alexa,create an appointment Alexa: please state the subject for appointment User : subject is {subject} Alexa: on which day? User :…
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How to define custom slot type for Device Name in Alexa Skill

I am building a skill for special controls of our devices. These controls are not available in Smart Home API. I need to set a custom slot type know as the DeviceName for my intent schema. But a DeviceName has really really a lot of possibilities. I…
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Is it possible to define intents that work over multiple states or work regardless of the state with the alexa-sdk?

I'm creating an alexa skill which have several different states. I want to define an intent that will work over the whole app, regardless of state. So far I've tried: Alexa.CreateStateHandler([array, of, states], { globalIntent() { …
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Alexa / Lex Intent design for adjusting numeric value

I'm unsure how to model an Alexa skill that involves adjusting numeric parameters and should allow both relative and absolute adjustments. Utterances could be similar to: Set temperature to 20 degrees Raise temperature by 2 degrees Increase the…
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Executing Alexa Tutorial Code ALWAYS Fails - Beginner

I'm new to Alexa Skill development and I'm sure this issue is process/environmental due to lack of experience. Whenever I try to use a sample from an offical Alexa tutorial, I can never get the skill to pass the first TEST - always getting an error…
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Is there a way to handle a long duration request/response for Alexa?

Lets say I have an action for an intent that could take 45 to 90 seconds to complete. I want Alexa to say the request is accepted, and then when the response comes back, to tell the user the result. Is there a way to do this, or does it have to be…
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Alexa skill have user confirm slot values

I'm building Alexa skills using Node.js in a lambda function and can't find any tutorials on the best way to confirm the data I have in the slots. I got to the point that all slots now have data but would like to have Alexa read back the request and…
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Amazon echo show not responding to new smart home skill

I have created a smart home skill for testing my amazon echo show integration with my smart camera. I have created a lambda function. When I test it on the AWS Lambda console it works fine. Below is the request body that I am using to test { …
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two node.js call back function inside an intent

In the following code ,the control is not reaching the second call back function it will execute until the console.log(params). After directly it will go to response.tellwithcard(). since i am fetching near by places(park) from current location…
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Searching through a Twitter feed for an Alexa Skill

I'm working on a fairly basic Alexa skill that, in essence, searches through a specific Twitter feed looking for a hashtag, parses that tweet, and reads it back. What's the simplest way to pull data from a Twitter feed? I've been having issues…
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How can I get Alexa to read the contents of a single line web page

I have an external webpage that contains only the following:- {"date":"25 December 2017"} Using node.js, how can I get Alexa to read (and say) the date from the webpage.
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How to make calls using alexa skill

I am developing a custom alexa skill and I would like to know if anyone knows how to make a call using alexa. I saw a similar question but nobody have answered it yet. How to make phone call from custom alexa skill I have a phone number in my api…
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Setting up an alexa server hello world demo

I am trying to set up the demo hello world alexa skill on my own server (A raspberry pi). I have tried this on a mac and it works. I am following these instructions :…
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workaround for alexa not understanding the word 'postpaid' in my skill

Alexa just doesn't understand the word 'postpaid' and I've tried it a million times in my skill. I also tried "Alexa, Simon says postpaid" but it repeats something else other than postpaid, I don't know why. My sample utterance is like this "what is…
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Nodejs - Get the instance_url from salesforce oauth response in Amazon Alexa skill or an API to get the instance_url

I have developed a simple alexa skill using nodejs which uses salesforce and have been successful linking the account(oauth 2.0). However what i want to do is to invoke any salesforce API and for this i require the instance_url that is returned in…
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