Stack Overflow
Stack Overflow

Questions tagged [alexa-skills-kit]

A collection of APIs used for developing new voice-enabled capabilities for Alexa and used in the Amazon Echo and other third party devices.

The Alexa Skills Kit allows users to build new functionality for the Amazon Alexa, providing an easy-to-use voice interface to your tools and user interaction through Alexa enabled devices such as the Amazon Echo line of speakers.

1905 questions
0
votes
1 answer

How to have Alexa perform button "SetLight" directives consecutively?

I'm working on having Alexa display a pattern of blinks utilizing two buttons for a second of orange each with a half second of black buffer. So the pattern would be: button 1 for 1 second of orange with half a second of black. button 2 for one…
Daniel Costello
  • 80
  • 9
0
votes
0 answers

Dialog delegate directive state not changing

I am running into an issue where the dialog state is not changing after I use the Dialog.Delegate. I fulfill all of the slot values in the test, but my it just says I have an error in the response and it says the dialog is still in progress. I am…
Noah Woodward
  • 1
  • 1
0
votes
1 answer

Alexa's AMAZON.LITERAL slot does not return anything

I am trying to create an Alexa skill which basically redirects any user input to my Web API, which generates the response. In other words, I don't want to use Alexa's built-in NLP engine. For that purpose, I am trying to obtain the value of the…
user6269864
0
votes
1 answer

Calling/Switching between slots/intents through aws-lambda function for Alexa skill kit

Is there a way to call an Intent in without saying the utterance to begin said intent in the aws-lambda function and also to call a specific slot and get a user's input to update said slots value. Example…
Jay
  • 53
  • 1
  • 2
  • 7
0
votes
1 answer

Issues getting Amazon Alexa Address API to work

Im having major dramas getting the Amazon Alexa address api to work in the C# Web Api app i have created using AlexaSkillsKit.Net var apiEndpoint = context.System.ApiEndpoint; var deviceId = context.System.Device.DeviceId; var apiAccessToken =…
Frazer
  • 560
  • 2
  • 11
  • 21
0
votes
1 answer

Is there any way alexa can add custom slot list dynamically through api call

I have a scenario where the custom slot list values needs to updated dynamically from my api.my sample utterance must only be the slot value.If I am not using custom slot list as slot type,I am unable to build the skill.I should be able to read what…
shalini
  • 171
  • 1
  • 8
0
votes
1 answer

alexa doesnot respond to unhandled intent, instead it calls any of my custom intents that I have been created

I had a intent with slot value (custom slot type) as utterance and some other intents .whenever I give something unrelated it maps to any of my intents.I used unhandled intent but is never called.please help me why am i getting this scenario?Is…
shalini
  • 171
  • 1
  • 8
0
votes
1 answer

Submit intent schema for slots and utterances for an Alexa Skill in JSON form?

Currently the only way I know how to submit the slots and utterances definitions for an Alexa Skill is through the GUI form based model builder you find at this base URL: https://developer.amazon.com/alexa/console/ask/build/ I need to submit a huge…
Robert Oschler
  • 14,153
  • 18
  • 94
  • 227
0
votes
1 answer

Alexa: respond with response from service (node v2 SDK)

I´m playing with the Alexa API. I want to have Alexa respond with content received from a service. not sure where to add the promise. I tried with this but Alexa is saying "There was a problem with the requested skill's response" const…
handsome
  • 2,335
  • 7
  • 45
  • 73
0
votes
1 answer

node 8.10 + Request causes AWS lambda to span result over two requests

edited to add more info I am having major problems with any library that relies on "request" when run in AWS Lambda Running the same code on the same version of Node locally works fine. I have tried all the things suggested in this issue…
lardconcepts
  • 97
  • 1
  • 6
0
votes
1 answer

Alexa skill to access a website

I have recently strated learning about Alexa skills. I was wondering if we could access different websites using alexa. For example, "Alexa, show me my facebook notifications" So far I have seen examples of how we can create WebAPIs using Amazon API…
Sumedh Junghare
  • 381
  • 2
  • 4
  • 21
0
votes
1 answer

How do I create an Alexa skill that gives the answers from my own database

I am learning about Alexa skills and eventually I want to create a skill although I need alexa's responds to the users being from a database that I am going to build. I was wondering if someone can give me some tips or recommend me a tutorial or…
Lili
  • 23
  • 1
  • 8
0
votes
2 answers

Alexa Skills - Maintain session in the simulator

I'm trying to maintain a session in the simulator so that I can chain intents and not have to start each sentences with "tell my skill {something}". Each time i trigger an Intent, I can see in the output JSON that the session.new is always…
JulienCoo
  • 1,128
  • 3
  • 13
  • 24
0
votes
2 answers

How to use "exit" to stop an Alexa skill or handle unrecognized utterances?

I am playing around with the Alexa SDK and I came across a strange behavior. I am trying to implement all possible ways a user could end a session. The problem I have is that the word "exit" returns Alexa saying "There was a problem..." and quits…
RjC
  • 827
  • 2
  • 14
  • 33
0
votes
2 answers

Capture Alexa response json

I would like to capture Alexa response and do some processing outside AWS Lambda. Maybe a view I would like to create with bar charts and on update it at runtime based on Alexa response. How should I do that? I can create an independent Alexa…
Justin
  • 35
  • 1
  • 11
1 2 3
…
99
100