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Alexa is a voice service developed by Amazon, made popular by the Amazon Echo and the Amazon Echo Dot devices developed by Amazon Lab126.

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Alexa is a voice service developed by Amazon, made popular by the Amazon Echo and the Amazon Echo Dot devices developed by Amazon Lab126. Out of the box, it is capable of voice interaction, music playback, making to-do lists, setting alarms, streaming podcasts, playing audiobooks, and providing weather, traffic, and other real time information, such as news. Developers can expand on the experiences supported by Alexa powered devices by developing "skills". Alexa can also control several smart devices using itself as a home automation system.

Interaction and communication with Alexa is available in English (US), English (CA), English (UK), English (AU), English (IN), French (CA), French (FR), Spanish (ES), Spanish (MX), Spanish (US), Portuguese (BR), German (DE), Italian (IT), Japanese (JP), and Hindi (IN)

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Alexa BDD tests

I am trying to implement BDD test on my Alexa skill. I am using Java SDK to implement it. Basically, I would like to trigger arbitrary intents programmatically in my test suite and assert on responses, but I could not find any materials to implement…
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How do I exit a lambda function that has a call to Firebase storage?

I'm trying to implement an Alexa skill (written with Jovo) that accesses audio files that we have stored in Google's Firebase storage. However, I cannot get the lambda function to return, no matter what timeout value that I give. I believe my…
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Alexa Custom skill in AWS lambda not recognizing Alexa.getSupportedInterfaces[Error handled: Alexa.getSupportedInterfaces is not a function]

Trying to use Alexa presentation Language features in AWS hosted custom lambda function. Intent handler are firing but when I add the Alexa.getSupportedInterfaces it is failing . Message is "Error handled: Alexa.getSupportedInterfaces is not a…
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Alexa programming 2 way communication

We are building an Alexa skill that connects to a custom mobile application. As part of the skill we'd like to have a fallback intent that simply connects the user to an operator. The operator is using a custom mobile application (that we have…
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Alexa Skill Messaging API vs Alert/Remainder API

Please help me to understand the difference between Skill Messaging API vs Alert/Remainder API. I went through the Amazon documentation. I am not able to differentiate.
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ResponseBuilder toString() returns object classes in string, not just the raw response string

I'm presently migrating from the Java ASK-SDK v1 to Java ASK SDK v2. I'm trying to return a webhook call using the ResponseBuilder class that I built my response up and the data is correct, however when I try to populate the HTTP body with the JSON…
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Alexa skill sends request to wrong skill

For some reason the Alexa simulator started sending request to other skills. I can invoke my skill, receive the response, then whatever intent I try to use I get an audio only response. I checked the server logs (Heroku hosted) and I can see that It…
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Alexa intent triggered but the reply is "Sorry, I had trouble doing what you asked. Please try again."

I am using city slots. So, now what i am trying to do is to get alexa speak the city name.But it isn't working. const GetCityNameIntent = { canHandle(handlerInput) { return Alexa.getRequestType(handlerInput.requestEnvelope) ===…
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Is there a way to handle 29th February in AMAZON.DATE?

While evaluating a model it shows output as below screenshot and there is no check for Leap Year. And when I test the skill it goes to FallBack Intent. And another thing I learned from How to extend built-in slot type with additional values in…
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How can Alexa wait a minute before asking to the user to answer a previous question?

This is an example of what I want: Alexa: "Hey Jhon, can you hold your breath for 1 minute?" Jhon: "Yes" Alexa: "okay, let's try. 3 - 2 - 1 go" (Jhon is holding the breath now) [ .. waiting for 1 minute .. ] Alexa: "Stop! did you succeed?" Jhon:…
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How to invoke AMAZON.HelpIntent?

I am working on an Alexa skill for declension of German nouns. Recently I've submitted a beta version for the certification review. The skill failed the review, one of the issues was with help message: The skill does not return a help prompt that…
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How do I fix create lambda error during "ask deploy"

I did the following "ask deploy": RI-mac:multiple-streams egilchri$ ask deploy -------------------- Create Skill Project -------------------- Profile for the deployment: [default] Skill Id: amzn1.ask.skill.cdb74c79-59a5-4e01-adb2-cad787040dd9 Skill…
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custom Alexa skill ExampleSkillIntentHandler being properly triggered but getting "Sorry, I had trouble doing what you asked. Please try again."

I'm building an Alexa custom skill. I tried the "Hello World" example and it worked just fine. However, when coding my own skill (using that stub -practically unmodified, except for the names and strings) I get a "Sorry, I had trouble doing what you…
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How to continually repeat animations?

I know in my commands I can set the repeatCount and repeatMode. The count takes in a value and repeats up to that amount. But what if I want it to continually loop over and over again until the next intent? "repeatCount": 30, "repeatMode":…
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how debug sef-hosted alexa skills?

I am working on an Alexa skill but I am having problems in a parse inside a method. The problem is only logs look pretty painful for debugging the error. When I created using Nodejs and hosted myself, I could get more meaning from console.log().…
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