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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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Does the Alexa Skills Kit enable handling the main conversation in code?

I have a basic model set up but it appears that the Alexa beta builder expects the design of the model to be up front with explicit lists of possible answers to requests. However, the Jeopardy game on that platform appears to allow new answers from…
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Alexa skill builder beta : builds forever

Under alexa skill kit, when I tried the Skill builder beta and configured the intents and utterances and finally clicked build mode, it builds forever and never stops. It keeps spinning and I am not able to opt out of beta version too. Anyone facing…
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Can you prevent users from reviewing your Alexa Skill?

We are interested in publishing an Alexa skill, but for legal reasons, would need to disable reviews. Does Alexa allow skill creators to disable reviews for their skill?
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Alexa skill and Azure AD authentication

I am trying to build an alexa skill that connects to an enterprise app that uses Azure AD authentication. We set everything up like in this article…
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Node.js param not being passed to callback function

I am creating a Alexa skill (Lambda function) node.js - And I am having having an issue passing in the "zipcode" const to the getLocation callback function, if i output the zipcode it will work. The getLocation function it's not returning anything,…
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Deploy Lambda Function to AWS with Alexa Skill Trigger

I'm using node-aws-lambda to deploy a lambda function directly using gulp and node.js. The function itself is being deployed properly. However, the trigger I try to configure is using an Amazon Alexa Smart Home Skill ARN. The validation complains…
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Force responses to be from a specific custom slot, repeatedly

I'm attempting to write a "trivia quiz" skill, like many others that already exist, but I would like the user to be able to give actual answers rather than "a/b/c" or "1/2/3". So the conversation will go like this: Alexa: Which planet is closest to…
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Java have Alexa Custom Skill ask for missing slots

I am currently building a custom skill for Alexa in Java. I want Alexa to set an appointment using an existing Exchange Server. For the appointment I want Alexa to check wether a name, a date and a time are given by the user. I do so using…
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Alexa Node Skill Questions / Prompts

So after scavenging the web, I am unable to find an answer to my problem. Basically, I want to produce the following result in Alexa, and I want to know if its possible and the direction I should be looking in on how to achieve. Skill / Intent…
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Alexa Unable to link your OAuth Skill

I am trying to link my skill to my OAuth 2.0 server. I am using "Auth Code Grant". In my server I receive from Alexa this: { client_id: 'alexa-skill', response_type: 'code', state:…
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How do I create and test dialog for a custom alexa skill?

I am developing an Alexa skill with account linking on an ROR API. I have the LaunchRequest working but when I try to make an IntentRequest (which has 3 slots) I am not getting a dialogState and Alexa is just telling me there is a problem with my…
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Slot type AMAZON.NUMBER won't handle larger number

My intent schema uses an AMAZON.NUMBER slot: { "intents": [ { "intent": "MyIntent", "slots": [ { "name": "Foo", "type": "AMAZON.NUMBER" } ] } ] } Smaller numbers like "two thousand"…
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Testing Alexa skill before submitting for certification

I'm new to Alexa skill development. I ran through the 6 Steps to Build Your First Alexa Skill. I'm on the final step where it's asking me to Submit for Certification. Is there a way to test on an Alexa device prior to submitting for certification?
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Alexa Skill Kit 24 Kilobyte Response Limit Change

In the Amazon Alexa developer docs it states that there is a 24 kilobyte limit on the size of the response JSON payload. I previously observed this limit being enforced but recently it seems the limit has been removed. Does anyone know if this limit…
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Alexa test simulator with text vs json

I am developing a custom skill using alexa-sdk, which is tailored towards being used as a Lambda function. However, I was able to set up an express server following this discussion, which involves mocking the lambda context. When I set up my server…
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