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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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Build Skill for Echo Show

I have build several skills for echo dot. Now, I am trying to build a skill for echo show. I have gone through several documentation: Videoapp-interface-reference Echo Show Skills But, I am not getting where to put the directives and how to use…
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How to change LED color of AWS Alexa Echo or Echo Dot?

After some Google search I was not able to find. Is there a way to change the LED ring color of the AWS Echo or AWS Echo Dot? I always blue kind and I want to change it to a more contextual app color range.
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Is there a generic approach to develop Amazon Echo skills and Google Home actions?

Is there a generic approach to develope Amazon Echo skills and Google Home actions?
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Amazon Echo or Google Home, developer kit capability?

Before buying one of those little awsome object i want to get a simple answer about the allowing capacity with the developer tools. Is it allowed to receive the text request in my "skill" or "action" Use a bot NPL api like Recast.AI, API.AI, Wit.AI…
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Alexa Echo Dot - ASK skill problems

I'm tying to make a simple test custom Alexa Skill, but I'm stuck and I'm not sure what the problem is. Maybe someone more experienced know what I'm missing? Invocation Name home system Intent Schema { "intents": [ { "intent":…
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Amazon Echo: Cannot read property on Node.js request

I've been working on an audio player for the Amazon Echo. Amazon provided a good example to work off of (https://github.com/alexa/alexa-skills-kit-sdk-for-nodejs). I'm coming from Python and node.js is still new to me, so this has been a fun…
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Why does Alexa session startup return error on first invocation?

Has anyone ever experienced the first call to an AWS Lambda function failing on only the first request sent to Alexa? (Remote endpoint unavailable error) I have a custom skill that does not use account linking. I have some intent code that runs on…
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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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Amazon Echo Lambda Function ZIP issue

So, I'm trying to invoke a Google Could Messaging service from Amazon echo, using NodeJS (using mac os x). Since my main.js file contains 3rd party libraries, I installed them with "npm install" command. I'm using the following libraries for…
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Use the Amazon Alexa Skill CLI to update the Interaction Model

Trying to update the interaction model of my skill using the command line based AWS CLI. Until now I've been copying the interaction model directly into the online skill editor. What's the best process for doing this programmatically?
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Alexa how to implement intent confirmation?

I am having trouble with implementing a confirmation for an intent. The documentation is really vague. I am currently using jovo framework in writing my code with nodeJs which saved me a ton of time. This is an example of how I want to confirm the…
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Can Alexa (echo dot) access a skill that is still in the development mode?

I've found this amazing site to generate my first Alexa skill. I've uploaded the standard template they have and it passes all the checks. Please note that this skill has not published yet and When I say (to the device), Alexa, open api starter,…
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return multiple audio files to stream in single request

I am currently building an Alexa app and have it pretty much ready. I am just having a small issues when it comes to trying to stream multiple audio files in one request. Right now, every time the user makes a request the app return a single audio…
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Accessing Amazon echo's alarm using python

Currently building an app for work, and need to be able to access Alexa's in built alarm with python, so far i haven't found any obvious way of doing this. I've hit a brick wall with how to approach this problem so it would be a big help if someone…
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