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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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Alexa Skill response is showing nothing when doing in setTimeout

Stuck from day. Problem is like this. var alexa = require('alexa-app'); // Define an alexa-app var myapp = new alexa.app('myapp'); myapp.intent('WelcomeIntent', function(request,response) { console.log(request); response.say("This is not…
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Tracking userId across multiple Alexa skills

If I have created multiple Alexa skills, is there a userId that would remain the same across all the skills? Specifically, if user does an action in Skill 1, I'd like to be aware of it for Skills 2 and Skills 3... and essentially allow the skills to…
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how to create custome alexa skill in c# and get response on my laptop

I want to create custom Alexa skill in C# and try to get response on my laptop for running any application. So user can ran any application by sending commands using Alexa dot.
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SSML phonemes work fine in Alexa service simulator but don't work on Echo hardware

I'm creating a simple Alexa skill and want to use SSML to pronounce some non-English words properly. While everything works fine in Amazon Service Simulator, I can't get it working on actual Amazon Echo hardware. For example, I'm sending following…
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Alexa adding extra character to slot value

​I am trying to get user response with option of a b c d or e . I have configured a slot with these possible values and reading the slot in my nodejs. when a user responds with the option a, c,d,e are returned ok in intent.slots.Answer.value …
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Alexa App stops listening after first intent is triggered

I have an Alexa App that has multiple intents, however, after any of the intents are triggered, Alexa shuts down. Each intent has shouldEndSession equal to false. Each of the intents has a callback: callback(sessionAttributes, …
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Intent scopes on Alexa skill

I'm implementing an Alexa search skill for a website. My question is that there is some kind of possibilities to give intents some kind of scopes, so built in Intents could be reused? I mean, for ex. the AMAZON.YestIntent to have different…
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Alexa Test Response does not contain outputSpeech

I'm new to Alexa, and have followed the airportinfo tutorial and I have copied the code from github https://github.com/bignerdranch/alexa-airportinfo and when i test it using npm and input an airport code e.g. SFO, Theres no "outputSpeech:" and i…
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Alexa skill 2 intents and open slot

Is it possible that Alexa reacts right when I have in a sample utterances something like this, opened slots? MyNameIsIntent {firstname} ProjektIntent {projekt} Right now she always goes back to MyNameIsIntent even if she ask a question for a…
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"errorMessage": "event is not defined" in lambda function

I am creating my first Alexa skill which fetches data from dynamodb table. I am naive in node.js and alexa both. I was successfully able to create a sample Space geek skill set , and then when I created my own skill set I used the same package( to…
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How to edit Alexa nodejs code in Lamba without overriding alexa sdk

During my lunchtimes I am building an Alexa app. I was getting an error around alexa sdk not found and fixed that buy uploading the local version of alexa sdk (installed using npm). However, when I then go in and use Lanmda's online nodejs editor…
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Alexa App not following 302 redirects issued by ASP.NET Core Identity

I'm working on an Alexa skill that supports account linking and am hosting the infrastructure for linking accounts using ASP.NET Core with ASP.NET Core Identity in a Microsoft Azure AppService website in IIS. I've implemented the ability to sign-in…
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Amazon Alexa Session Attributes don't persist

I'm using the nodejs 'alexa-sdk' to develop a pension calculator skill for Amazon Alexa. The problem I have is that when switching from one state to another it doesn't keep the session attributes. I'm storing them…
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Alexa/Echo - Invoking a Skill with Intent via Echo vs. Testing with text

I have an Intent that is a sentence like: Tell us about {Topic} A topic could be a few things from a list (custom slot type), each item can be between 1 and 3 words. When I open the skill first ("Alexa, open Skill Name"), and then test it with…
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Amazon Alexa custom skill and smart home skill. Control devices

I try to implement devices control from Alexa. I created smart home skill and successfully added user authorization. I can turn on/off my devices. I understand, that I can add new commands (like stop, play last video, get status and etc.) only using…
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