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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 custom skill not giving answers to the default queries

I have created a custom skill for Alexa. I can able to get the response for custom skills also. But I'm getting one issue. I have created a simple skill with invocation FullName and intent FullNameIntent which has the utterance like What is my full…
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How to Automate uploading skill in Alexa

I want to automate the uploading of Alexa Skill. How can we automate uploading of the Alexa Skill. I have a website in which there are 2 fields (AppName,Lamba Function Url) and a button. When user clicks on a button than I want to create the skill…
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I want to validate the user request by alexa in java

I had a requirement to validate the user Request(i,e if user spoke i need an icecream. How can we know the user spoken icecream). Ex: i want to order a marghareeta pizza then how can we know the user Ordered marghareeta by through Amazon echo)
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HTTP request callback not firing

I am making a skill for the Amazon Echo. In my handlers, I have an intent (SelectGardenIntent) that obtains the user_id (needed for following HTTP requests) from the access token successfully, as well as a variable called gardenNumber which is a…
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Amazon Alexa Lambda Unexpected Token ILLEGAL

I have looked at other similar questions and this error is usually caused by a missing '+' sign when one is adding on text to a text variable or when one has some sort of weird characters. Any suggestions as to how to spot mine? My error is here:…
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How do you use SetAlert with the Node.js Alex Skill SDK?

I am a ASK n00b and I want to create a skill, that when activated will send messages to the user on a schedule. Later I want to pause/resume that schedule. I am currently hacking the Node.js fact example to learn the ropes, but could use some…
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How to reply with questions - Alexa

I am trying to build an alexa custom skill. I am facing an issue where I am trying to get a responses from the user for a question which the skill asks the user. User : Tell me marks of student1 ? Alexa: Subject User: Maths Alexa : student1 marks in…
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How to access UserID of Alexa Skill by using Flask Ask Library?

I am using Flask Ask to develop my Alexa Skill. I want to give different permissions to different Users. For this I have to access the UserID. I have been searching for days now. I have read documentation of Flask Ask and there was not sufficient…
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Alexa skill in java not waiting for response

I'm trying the WiseGuy sample app in Java and can get Alexa to say "knock knock" but then the light turns off and that's it, I don't get to say "who's there". Same issue with my own skill, even though I'm using newAskResponse(). Is there anything…
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Alexa - trying to compare intent "f150", the Ford truck model to the written "f150"

I have tried removing non-alphanumeric characters and spacing out the numbers to match common vernacular "f 1 50". I have verified that Alexa service is returning the intent in numeric form (as it is in the utterances). What am I missing or what…
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Alexa fetching user email using python

I am trying to make an Alexa skill using python backend. I am using amazon developer console to create model and code backend. I want to retrieve user email address. I would appreciate if you could provide me with sample code. I tried many methods…
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How do I create an Alexa skill that gives the answers from my own database using node.js 8.10

i am a beginner and trying to develop an Alexa skill which can store data to be retrieved later for my college project.
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Need HELP in storing the state of the track being played for Alexa Skill

Hey I am developing an Alexa skill which i will be publishing at a later point in which based on the track the user requires Alexa would play that specific track with the help of our api which returns the track url . I was able to implement this . I…
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Microsoft application registration portal not accept standard http Redirect URL

I am registering a Native application in the Microsoft application registration portal with the goal of giving it delegate permission to my separately registered Azure Web API. As I understand, this is the normal setup for desktop or mobile…
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A CMS for an Alexa Skill

More of a question than a problem but I'm wondering if anyone has attempted or seen the use of a CMS for an Alexa Skill. I'm imagining a simple FAQ based Alexa skill. The JSON for the intent would have to be generated elsewhere or at least supplied…
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