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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 (amazon) calling server to custom Alexa skill webservice - firewall needs opened

I need to host my own webservice end point, but cannot find what the address is calling my custom Alexa Skill webservice endpoint. I need this to be able to open u the firewall to accept the calls. Thanks
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Can you have Amazon Alexa understand email addresses or phone numbers?

Is it possible to have Alexa understand email addresses or phone numbers? For example, I'd like to tell Alexa to send me an SMS message (and then provide the mobile #), or have her (okay, it) send an email to my account. My guess is that the tech…
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developing and testing alexa skill (with authorization)

I am about to develop my first custom skill for Alexa. I do not have a Echo device. What I did was to creating and testing a basic skill with the amazon developer console (Alexa Skill + Lambda). Now I'm have some general (nooby) questions here: 1)…
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Amazon Alexa - How can I get year from my written text?

I need to convert a written number into an integer value. So, if I type twenty fourteen or two thousand fourteen, I should be able to interpret it as 2014 in my function. I have tried AMAZON.DATE and AMAZON.NUMBER which do not work satisfactorily.
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How to access your Amazon Echo Alexa history/events like IFTTT?

IFTTT seems to use "Login with Amazon" to access either a) Alexa events or b) Alexa history. How is this possible? Is there a special permission configuration step when setting up "Login with Amazon"? Or is there a special parameter to supply when…
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Alexa skills kit interaction from my iOS app

After reading Alexa Skills Kit docs, i have some doubts. What is meant by Alexa-enabled device here?(My custom home automation device support Alexa api or how to change my hardware to support Alexa api?). This Alexa-enabled device will communicate…
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Alexa skill Rest API

Can we use Rest API instead of using Lambda. The reason im asking is because we got the request, we know what alexa accepts as a response, and we know that it is a POST. So connect all of these into REST API. The reason im asking is that the whole…
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basic usage of node , pubnub ,socket.io not working

I am trying to use socket.io with pubnub. I am not able to understand how to get data on client(index.html) which I have published on the server.Below is the sample code. my server.js var pubnub = require("pubnub") var p = pubnub.init({ …
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Using websockets with Alexa skills kit

I have an hello world alexa skill written in node js and deployed it in heroku. I have to use websockets to send the response to a web ui(say a html page in my local machine).Is this possible? my server code-server.js 'use strict'; var…
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PHP api for amazon echo

I have specific requirement like i have to create API in php that will fetch instruction from alexa skills for e.g i will speck to amazon echo device "Alexa, Can you please find company name of Mr.X" then echo will send some variable or text of my…
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Alexa Skills Kit: Can't get AMAZON.NUMBER, AMAZON.DATE to work

This should be simple and straightforward, but I am having a hard time getting it to work. So: Using AMAZON.LITERAL for a number like below works fine: IntentSchema: { "intent": "Group_Size", "slots":[ { "name":…
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Alexa JSON Request doesn't match Intent Schema

I am hosting an application server with Express (Versions: "body-parser": 1.14.2", "express": "^4.13.3", "parse-http-header": "^1.0.0", "x509": "^0.2.3") Node v5.4.1 NPM v3.3.12 I have successfully tested the SSL connection between Alexa and my…
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Unexpected Communication Issue with Alexa

I created my Alexa skill as an AWS Lambda java app and used the HelloWorld example provided in the Alexa Skills Kit. I followed all the steps given on the Amazon site including all the steps given here Alexa not finding my Skill. Since Amazon…
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How can I record user voice in Alexa skill?

I am trying to develop an Alexa skill which can record users voice and perform some operations on it. But I have read that it is not possible. But I think it is because voice memo is an amazon skill which records users voice. So, How can we record…
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save/remember an Alexa user's intent confirmation response?

I have a confirmation prompt for one of my Alexa skill's intents, and now I need it to "remember" the user's answer and not ask the user again. Essencially, we want the user to be prompted only on the very first time they use the skill, and then…
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