Using the Alexa Voice Service, you can develop a voice-powered UI to connected devices.
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Alexa Skill Static Audio File implementation
I have been playing around with this project from git, and so far so good.
https://github.com/bespoken/streamer
I would like to enhance it to play a long form static audio file when the user asks for it. For example, if the user asks for "Ask…

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Alexa Skill Kit : how does Alexa Echo App display the content instead of just speech
I many to receive response from Alexa Voice Service but the response looks like it only send me back audio data not the text data which I have defined in the schema e.g. stuff in the card tag.
In Alexa App, after requesting what is the weather…

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Add pause to Alexa without using SSML
Is there a way to add a pause (preferably 1 second) in Amazon Alexa without using SSML? Perhaps there is a trick I can do with the Outputspeech.Text and I just don't know it.
Below, I am saying "Here are works of art by {artist name}" but the name…

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Link alexa custom skill and avs device
I designed alexa custom skill and avs device on same account, avs device integrated in android app. when i am using android app by logged-in from development account(build skill and avs here) then skill working fine, but if i tried from another…

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Amazon echo change beep sound
I just finished installing amazon echo on my raspberry pi.
Im thinking how could I change the beep sound (feedback sound) after you say "alexa" to something else. Like an audio file which says Im listening.
Anyone ever tried or thought about…

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Alexa node sdk chaining events
I'm trying to develop a skill for amazon alexa whereby the application leads the user into a new state.
"User input" -> "Speak" -> "Ask Question" -> "User input" .... etc
Is the most obvious way of going about this, however, this means I have to…

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Alexa Voice Serice SSL Handshake when packaged as a jar
I am running into a SSL handshake issue when I package up the sample-java-client(from alexa-avs-sample-app https://github.com/alexa/alexa-avs-sample-app ) into a fat jar and run it as part of a new "test java" project which contains only a main…

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AWS Alexa - perform basic auth
I am trying to create a skill that will reach out to an application that uses Basic authentication to render APIs (albeit i know this is bad practice). I was wanting to go down a route similar to account linking, however seems they enforce the usage…

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Search Functionality in Alexa skill
I'm building Alexa skill that plays audios. An audio has a title, speakers and other properties.
Problem: I want to add search functionality in my skill, so that user may play audio on base of title or speaker's name etc. How can i achieve…

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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:
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Alexa enabled Raspberry Pi authentication without LWA
I followed this tutorial to enable Alexa on my Raspberry Pi 3. To enable and use Alexa, authentication is performed using Login With Amazon. But I was hoping for a headless way of starting Alexa app on the Pi, which is obviously outside the scope of…

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Bypassing speech recognition in Amazon AVS
As I understand AVS you send an audio clip to the API which is parsed for speech recognition and then interprets that text and gives you some result based on what you asked.
What I want to do is make kind of a cli version of Alexa where you type in…

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iOS app that uses Alexa Voice Service (AVS)
A couple of questions about the use of Alexa Voice Services within an enterprise app.
Can anyone confirm that the Alexa Voice Service API can actually be used within an iOS app? I'm seeing old projects on GitHub that won't compile in XCode 8, and…

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Alexa Skill Kit and Alexa Voice service for Android app queries
Is it possible to just have our Android app answer the question to only our Alexa custom skill and not have the entire default behavior of Echo? For example: I created a custom skill, say, calculate Can I make an android app which uses Alexa Voice…

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How to keep session always open in Alexa
Hi How to keep session always open in alexa app.I developed custom skill for my client .After last response skill session ends.I don't want this. I want to keep session open always.so when user says the opening flows intent it should start from…

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