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The Amazon Echo is a Virtual Personal Assistant produced by Amazon. For questions about the usage of the device, ask at Internet of Things Stack Exchange. Ask on Stack Overflow for questions regarding programming the Echo with skills (the Alexa Skills Kit).

The Amazon Echo is a Virtual Personal Assistant (VPA) that is exposed to developers through the Alexa Skills Kit, allowing a voice activated interface to third party apps.

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The Lambda ARN (Amazon Resource Name) does not show up at top right when i create a function for Alexa skill set

I started playing around with Alexa skill set, I followed the steps as mentioned on the amazon development document and created a lambda function for Event source "Alexa skill set". ARN did not show up at top right as mentioned in the doc. I tried…
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Amazon Alexa Device Discovery for Smart Home API with Lambda Failing

I have setup an Alexa Smart Home Skill, all settings done, oauth2 processed done and skill is enabled on my Amazon Echo device. Lambda function is setup and linked to the skill. When I "Discover Devices" I can see the payload hit my Lambda function…
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Error: Unable to parse the provided SSML. The provided text is not valid SSML

I am receiving this error when using the Test section of the Alexa Developer portal website Error: Unable to parse the provided SSML. The provided text is not valid SSML. The error occurs after I get a successful response and I press the listen…
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Get unique device id for amazon echo

I am writing a custom skill for the amazon echo and I need to get a unique device id so I can register then product to my service. Everything I read says that you cannot get the id from the device. Has amazon changed this? Is there a work around to…
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How to amazon alexa api for a web or mobile app?

I want to use amazon alexa api for my website/ mobile application. I would like to know if it is possible to use and how to integrate alexa, given that I develop my custom skill.
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How to return Dialog.Delegate in Amazon Alexa SDK?

A few of my Intents for my Alexa app require certain slots. The Alexa skills builder makes this easy. I can mark a slot as required and set what Alexa should ask in order for the user to provide the information for the slot. The thing is that as a…
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How to pass text from alexa/echo to a server

I want to create a simple skill which uses alexa's voice to text translation and then passes the text to a different service. This seems close to what i am looking for:…
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Push content to Amazon Echo

Is there a way to push content and/or make Amazon Echo to start the conversation. I tried building Alexa skill - however it is activated only after specifying the wake word. My use case it to make Amazon Echo to announce if there is Nagios Alert or…
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Get unformatted Alexa value from built-in AMAZON.DURATION slot type

I'm using the AMAZON.DURATION built-int slot type to get data from my custom Alexa skill. This works perfectly and converts the given duration to an ISO-8601 duration format. For example, the slot type successfully converts "ten minutes" to PT10M…
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Log the utterenances that are not handled by amazon alexa

is it possible to log the question asked by user that triggers that unhandled intent. What I plan to do. When the user says an utterance that alexa does not understand it fires the unhandled intent. Here I want to ask user to repeat the statement…
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Audio Streaming | Testing on Amazon Echo | Alexa

I'm working on Amazon Echo (Alexa) now days, and quite new to it. I'm using AWS-Lambda function as endpoint, and testing my custom skill on simulator or Echoism.io. The skills without audios are working fine in this scenerio The problem is, i'm…
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Alexa Skills Kit sample skill wont upload on Amazon Lambda - throws error

I have set up the Hello World (https://github.com/amzn/alexa-skills-kit-js/tree/master/samples/helloWorld)) sample skill on AWS Lambda and the Alexa Console. But when I go to run it, it gives me this error: module initialization error: Error at…
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Amazon alexa skill development

I am creating a custom skill for Alexa Echo with my existing service. The service has lots of functionality in it which serves a different purpose. I want my skill to serve all these functionalities. All the services are HTTPS POST service which…
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Using the Alexa voice service RestAPI with cURL

I'd like to the the Alexa voice API (https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-voice-service/rest/speechrecognizer-requests) with curl. The voicerecogniser API call is more complex than I'm used to using and needs an MP3 file…
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Create a toggle between two actions in IFTTT

I have a simple device (Nordic Thingy 52) with a push button which can trigger the Maker Webhooks service in order to pass an event (button_press), which I am currently using to then trigger the Smart Life service's "Turn Off" or "Turn On" action.…
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