Using the Alexa Voice Service, you can develop a voice-powered UI to connected devices.
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Is there a way to configure Alexa smart home skill Auth APIs served on HTTP protocol
I am configuring Alexa smart home skill for Authentication with my cloud under Account linking. As a part of configuration I need to give below two API endpoint of my cloud:
Authorization URL
Access Token URI
When I configure my cloud API…

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How can I test Amazon Alexa apps with multiple users?
I've been developing an Alexa skill and I need to keep some state between requests on a per-user basis. I'm using the flask-ask framework and it works well with a single user, but clearly I need to test with multiple users, preferably in a simulated…

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In alexa custom app Can I get the query as a voice stream/audio file of a user?
After the user invokes an app on Alexa , Is there a way to get the query as a voice stream/audio file of a user? Through alexa I want to send the stream to a webservice/lambda that the invoked app will call and analyze the intent there.
We have some…

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How to do error handling for "unhandled intent" asked by user in Alexa?
When alexa receives "unhandled intent" from users. How to handle error messages "Am not quite sure how to help you with that"?

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Alexa is responding I couldn't find any enabled video skills when i invoke my skill
I have a development skill "The great courses plus" in my account.
2-3 weeks before it was working fine.
But Now when I say Alexa Open "The Great Courses Plus" it respond
"I couldn't find any enabled video skills. Go to the music, TV and books…

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Implement Alexa Skills in Sling OSGi container
I'm implementing Alexa Skills logic (speechlets) using Java Alexa Skills Kit SDK hosted on Apache Tomcat. However, I need to move the project to Apache Sling based server. It's based on OSGi container (Apache Felix). I found Sling DI mechanisms very…

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invoke amazon alexa through program API. is it possible?
changing the alexa wake up intents. instead of alexa, I want to invoke it through a program API?
Amazon voice service API is available to invoke by variety of means? For example, my application program (web/mobile) should make an api call to invoke…

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Difference Between Amazon "Lex & Polly" vs "Alexa Voice services + Alexa skill kit"
I have recently seen a tutorial where developer created a alexa skill and then installed alexa voice service in raspberry pi and invoked that skill using that voice service. So my Detailed Question is , Can i do the same this using Amazon Lex where…
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Can AVS(Alexa voice service) be used on website with wake word?
I'm trying to add AVS and Skill on my web site, and I can see it is possible to add a button to activate Alexa like echosim.io, but not sure how to initiate with wake word by voice.
Is it possible and any chance of some example of javascript?

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Amazon Alexa: Is it possible to get the response as JSON
I am new to Alexa development and I found a sample library in GitHub.
https://github.com/willblaschko/AlexaAndroid
It get your voice command and response from amazon in Voice. Is there away to get the text response e.g JSON format so I can get the…

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How to return to app from play directive in alexa app?
I am developing an app for audio streming. if i am saying alexa to play song for this artist, alexa is playing all the song. But is not listening in between to switch to another artist. Alexa is completing all the song for the artist and then…

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Calling Amazon Alexa APIs with JavaScript (for using AVS, not for skill development)
I am trying to develop a JavaScript based app that will interact with Alexa.
How can I call Alexa Voice Service APIs using JavaScript? (I am planning to utilize XMLHttpRequest for AVS connection.)
There is only an example Java app and it's a bit…

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How to connect to Alexa with Qt?
I'm writing an Qt application and try to use Alexa API. I received access token, but I can't use API because of "Host not found" and "Connection closed".
My QNetworkAccessManager defined…

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Having trouble displaying Multiple Home Card Display on Alexa
Previously when I gave command to alexa for a search. I was just getting 5 items in response. Screenshot attached.
Than I showed a image of 1st item with 5 items in response.
For a response having single card, The card image and card value is…

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How to play an mp3 file from an offset in Amazon Echo
Is it possible to tell Amazon Echo (using SSML) to play an mp3 file from a specific offset?

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