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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 timeout wait time for the response

Here is the scenario 1) Alexa sends a request to an API 2) API handles the request and functionality and sends back a response Please find my questions below How long can the API take to respond back to Alexa or in other words how long will Alexa…
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Sharing Echo Show Screen on to a monitor. Possible or not?

I am creating a skill for Echo Show which lets user see a lot of information. Now the targeted users for this skill can't be near to the echo show devices all the time as this skill is for bigger places like Airports and Big Malls etc. What I want…
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Alexa unable to link skill - We were unable to link skillname at this time

When I try account linking from Alexa web app, I get error 'unable to link your skill'. following is my work progress. Alexa app is able to open my authentication url. I am able to authorize and provide authorization code with redirect uri. …
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What is the correct Access Token URI for AWS Cognito and Alexa account linking?

I am a bit confused as to how to setup Cognito as a provider for account linking in Alexa. So far in Alexa, I have the following: Authorization…
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Alexa: Increasing and Decreasing brightness of device

The Alexa skill does not work with "Increase/Decrease device_name to percentage". Example : Me - Alexa, Increase device by 20% Alexa - Sorry the device is not responding. However, when I check in Alexa application it increases the brightness by…
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How to handle synonyms in intents in Alexa?

In the following example: If the user says toffee, shouldn't that be translated to candy? I ask because the value handed to my intent is 'toffee'. So not sure what I have incorrect. types":[ { "name":"SHOPPING_LIST", "values":[ …
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Alexa custom slot that takes any word or phrase

What samples can one add to a custom slot to make it accept any word or phrase?
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How to unit test a lambda function that includes a dynamoDB query

I have a function in my Alexa skill's lambda function that I am trying to do a unit test for using the aws-lambda-mock-context node package. The method I am trying to test includes a call to DynamoDB to check if an item exists in my table. At the…
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How to access Alexa Skill metrics via ASK CLI or SMAPI?

Current behavior: I can access metrics for each of my Alexa Skills via the developer console, such as "total unique customers over past 7 days" Desired behavior: do the same but via Amazon's ASK CLI or SMAPI (in order to automate + bulk export…
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How can I add custom mode in Alexa smart home skill

I am implementing smart home skill in which user will change mode. I found Alexa supported few inbuild modes and for user-defined mode they have CUSTOM mode mechanism. Over the documentation they mention below JSON need to set: { "name":…
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Alexa Python Skill with custom modules

I was trying to develop a skill to be able to ask Alexa when the next departure of the train nearby is. Fortunately there is an API for the departure times in my city. So I took a template and tried to rewrite it to my requirement: from __future__…
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How can I implement relevant help during a multi-turn dialog? Amazon Alexa Python 3.6

I am trying to implement AMAZON.HelpIntent for my Alexa Skill. This is the intended behavior: User: Alexa, tell Volume Calculator to calculate the volume of a box. Alexa: What is the length of the box? User: Help Alexa: The length of a box is how…
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Calling Another Alexa intent from within LaunchRequest

I am working on an Alexa skill where I would like to redirect user to one intent when he opens the skill via LaunchRequest. User says Open xyz skill LaunchRequest receives this and forwards the request to another…
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Using apostrophes for Alexa slots

I am developing an Alexa skill, where I have a stop for names of fruits. However, if I speak something like "What is apple's cost" where the slot value has an apostrophe, Alexa does not seem to recognize the apostrophe. Workaround is to say…
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How to add slot values dynamically to alexa skill

I am new in Alexa development. I have successfully create an Alexa skill with AWS lambda function and Node.js code. This is my intent schema. { "intents": [ { "slots": [ { "name": "locationName", "type":…
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