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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 account linking - How to id_token instead of access id_token

I was successfully able to link my Alexa app (client) to our companies OpenID Connect platform (authorization server). Our authorization server returns the following information to Alexa client : { "access_token":"eyAi", "refresh_token":"kfQ", …
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OpenSSL SSL_connect: SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL in connection to api.amazonalexa.com:443

I've been trying to get the Skill Management API working and this morning I've hit a new roadblock without haven't changed anything. I was getting a "User has not consented to this operation error last night" and without changing anything this…
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Amazon Polly in Alexa Skill?

Is it possible to use amazon Polly in an Alexa Skill to deliver for instance an 2 language response in an translation or otherwise multilingual context? And if yes, who has experiences with using this service from a lambda function?
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issues with Claudia.js text responses and Alexa

I'm working on a Claudia.js bot that can be reached through Slack, FB messenger, and as an Alexa skill. Supposedly in claudia, you can return plain text and the framework will give it back to the "frontend" correctly... What I have currently have…
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Is there a way to use the CLI to configure an Alexa skill?

Is there a way to use the CLI to configure an Alexa skill? I understand how to set up and manage the corresponding Lambda code using the CLI, but I see no way to do the same for the Alexa skill (e.g. to set or upload an updated Intent Schema or…
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How do I handle 'Yes'/'No' responses from the user in Custom Skill?

I am trying to build an alexa custom skill. I am facing an issue where I am trying to get Yes/No responses from the user for a question which the skill asks the user. Alexa: Would you like to know the rules of the game? User:
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Alexa Skill - Update Intent programmatically

I'm trying to create an Alexa skill which has a fairly wide-open possible number of phrases it could use. Too many to write by hand. I can probably generate the list programmatically, but it changes frequently, so I'd want it updated frequently. Is…
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How to get the account info of the user when the user uses an Alexa Skill

We are going to create an Alexa Skill that allows the user to control a Wi-Fi LED. Every time the user uses that Skill, we hope that we can get the user's account info in a callback of the SDK used in the AWS Lambda function for that skill. Like…
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Amazon Alexa - How to create Generic Slot

How can I create a generic slot for an Alexa skill? So that I can create my own Todo app and it will recognise the free form text.
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Can I create custom slot types dynamically in alexa voice service?

I want to create slot type for the response that I am getting from the user because I want to query again using that slot. Could not find any official documentation saying whether this is possible or not.
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How to store the data for the Alexa skill I am developing?

I am currently developing an Alexa skill based on health care. So I need to store information about diseases, their diagnosis and symptoms. I have made a basic skill including information about one disease in a file, made a zip file, uploaded it to…
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Programmatically Introduce Pauses or Long Delays into Alexa Skill Capturing Input

I work at a NLI company and I have just created a skill where I have pretty much an open mic session with our Alexa Skill through the Amazon Echo. Everything works fine and I can have an open dialog with our backend knowledge base, without having to…
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How do Alexa and Google Analytics track demographics?

How are services like Alexa and Google Analytics capable of tracking visitors' age, gender, college education, and so forth? http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/stackoverflow.com
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Amazon Web Service for Alexa

AWS (Amazon Web Service) provides an API for submitting HTTP requests to Alexa. This API is called Alexa Web Information Service. I submit an HTTP request with &Action=UrlInfo and &ResponseGroup=UsageStats. I then receive an XML within the HTTP…
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How to get AMAZON.QUERY input in multi turn

I am trying to create a Intent where skill can get Input from user until user says "finish".
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