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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 keeps giving error

I get this error from Alexa trying to run Service Simulator since yesterday There was an error calling the remote endpoint, which returned HTTP 503 : Service Unavailable Is it a known issue? Is Alexa down?
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Passing a callback to an event handler

I'm working on an Alexa skill in Node that runs in AWS Lambda, and having trouble getting a callback to execute when I emit an event. The Alexa-skills-kit for Node.JS README demonstrates passing a callback function to an event handler, and…
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TypeError: next() takes no arguments (1 given)

I am building a SoundCloud music streaming skill for Alexa with Flask-ask in python. I have a generator function that looks like this: def stream_likes(): url = "http://api.soundcloud.com/me/favorites?oauth_token={}".format(oauth_token) r =…
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Wrong intent in Alexa Skill Request when using the simulator

I set up my intents using this intent schema: { "intents": [ { "intent": "StartIntend" }, { "intent": "AMAZON.YesIntent" }, { "intent": "AMAZON.NoIntent" } ] } My sample utterances look like this (it's…
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Alexa Intent sends two requests and fails

What I am trying to do: I have a very simple Alexa Skill which listens for a command word: { "intents": [{ "intent": "AffiliateEmpire", "slots": [ { "name": "affiliate_action", "type":…
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HelloWorld Alexa Skill - where does it start executing?

I'm learning javascript and the basics of building an Alexa Skill. Amazon provided a simple HelloWorld Alexa Skill found here: https://github.com/amzn/alexa-skills-kit-js/blob/master/samples/helloWorld/src/index.js I have two questions about this…
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How does the implicit grant flow work?

On this page, https://github.com/doorkeeper-gem/doorkeeper/wiki/Supported-Features, it mentions support for Implicit Grants. It looks like the authorizations#create is the endpoint I want and it does return an access_token but it doesn't return the…
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Amazon Alexa Recording custom words

Do you guys know if Alexa can register a custom user said word that is no a AMAZON.Something, now that AMAZON.literal (which was a catch all for any word) is deprecated. For example for a skill like "wikipedia". Whereby I want to be able to say "Hey…
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Alexa node sdk chaining events

I'm trying to develop a skill for amazon alexa whereby the application leads the user into a new state. "User input" -> "Speak" -> "Ask Question" -> "User input" .... etc Is the most obvious way of going about this, however, this means I have to…
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How to get the second utterance- Alexa

I am trying to build a conversational skill in Amazon Alexa. Once I start my skill, how can I know what the user said for the second time when I set should_end_session as false?
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alexa Steam custom skill api integration

currently trying to develop one of my first alexa skills. trying to build a skill that updates the user on who out of their Steam friends, are online. Curerntly it's pretty messy and not in the format i hope it to be in the end, but for testing…
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Alexa-Skill Monetization possibilities for developers

We created Alexa Skill using AWS Lambda. Currently our skill is available as FREE skill. Is there option to develop a paid skill ( advertisements / in-app purchases )? Looking for Monetization options for developers. Looked at…
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only builtin utterances working ASK

I'm developing a skill in Amazon Alexa. I'm trying to test the same using echosim.io but the problem is as below. My Skill name is MyBot and the same is invocation name. In echosim.io, When I say Alexa Launch MyBot, it gives the welcome response…
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How can I get Amazon echo to respond to "preheat the car" or "what's the car battery status"? (they get hijacked)

I'm trying to create some skills for my Echo (for my own use, I'm not concerned about the invocation names not getting through review). I've set my invocation name as "the car" (I also tried "car"). I wanted to be able to ask what my battery status…
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Is there a way to define a custom skills values each time the skill gets invoked?

I am attempting to make a skill which can select files, Unfortunately the AMAZON.LITERAL type is being deprecated and I need to update my skill to a custom skill type. I already have code that generates keywords for selectable files, is there a way…
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