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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 model evaluation works great but intent is never called in simulator or alexa device

I'm struggling to build my Alexa Interaction model. My application is used for requesting live data from a smart home device. All i do is basically calling my Server API with a Username & Password and i get a value in return. My interaction model…
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How to call Alexa externally?

I have set up an Echo Dot device for my account. My intent is to call an Alexa skill on this device externally. I have seen a lot of tutorials, but I could only see that these skills were started by voice. Is there any way to trigger an Alexa skill…
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Need Email Address from Google with Access Token that we receive from Alexa Skill?

I was able to Link Account using Google Auth v2 in Alexa Skill. And I am able to get Access Token. Now I want to get the Google Email address with which user has used to link account. So how can I get that Google Email Address?
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How to use an mp4 video stored on Dropbox within an Alexa Skill that uses an ALP document

My goal is to get an mp4 video i placed in dropbox to work within my Alexa Skill in which I am using an ALP document to include multimedia support. I am not interested in using Amazon S3 storage. I was following a tutorial by dabbelab. I could get…
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How to create shared slots for alexa skills

I need help with creating shared slots. I visited the official page: https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/smapi/create-a-slot-type-to-use-in-multiple-skills.html#api-endpoint-and-header however, I am unable to understand how to initiate the…
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Can AWS EC2 endpoint be used as an endpoint for Google Home?

I have developed a skill in Amazon Alexa. I have used python along with AWS Lambda and AWS EC2 as an endpoint. I wish to deploy the same skill for Google Home. Can I used the same AWS EC2 as an endpoint in Google Home?
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I want to randomize responses in Python for a custom Alexa skill, question-answer project

I'm creating a skill for Alexa where she would answer a question "Who is right, me or ..." I followed a tutorial here https://medium.com/crowdbotics/how-to-build-a-custom-amazon-alexa-skill-step-by-step-my-favorite-chess-player-dcc0edae53fb but I…
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"There was a problem with the requested skill's response" In Alexa Developer Console

SITUATION: So i followed a 3 video short tutorial by sentdex on youtube named "Alexa Skills w/ Python and Flask-Ask" parts 1, 2 and 3. Basically when i run this skill, alexa will read me the first 10 headlines from reddit.com/ r/ worldnews (cant…
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What is the best practice to create a Q&A Alexa app?

I want to make a simple Q&A Alexa app similar to Alexa's custom Q&A blueprint app. I don't want to use blueprints because I need additional functionality. What is the best practice for creating the Alexa app? Should I create a separate intent for…
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How to give the response if the user give unknow intent name in alexa

I created PHP webhook and used https service to call the intent response, but when user says unknow intent name it must give the response sorry. but I didn't get the response. My code if(intent->name="name of intent") { echo response } else…
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Alexa YESNO Intent

I had asked this question before also but no luck, so I am posting again. I am working on amazon alexa skill and I want that when I call 'YESNOIntent' it should answer differently under different Intents. 'FirstIntent': function () { speechoutput =…
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Alexa long response with pagination

I have one Alexa skill which calls the external web service. My web service returns me variable array or string(Sentences) currently I am concatenating the whole array in the string and prompt it as a response. Now, I want to add functionality like…
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How to control my webapp with Alexa

I built an alexa skill using Python with Flask_ask, which goes to my DB and retrieves information that I need and spells it out. I am now trying to create a web UI which would have an option of asking the required question by typing it in or…
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How can I make Alexa recognize number "two" and "four" in my utterance

I got a trouble about Alexa Number type. When I try to command number "two" or "four" Alexa always returns an undefined value or "?" to my server. My utterance is as below: echo, tell machine "Machinename" "action" "......". "machine" is skill…
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How to send message back to device from Lambda function?

Is there any way we can send a message to a device from Lambda function which is invoked by Alexa Skill. The message contains some values collected by Lambda function. So basically I want to do this: Device ---> Voice command ---> Alexa Skill…
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