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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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How to define a custom slot that can be any name orstring value?

I am building a cricket stats alexa skill which requires the playerName to filter out information. I cannot use AMAZON.US_FIRST_NAME because of the following reasons: It only detects the first name and not the whole name There are playerName from…
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How can the Amazon Echo catch errors?

I am building an application for the Amazon Echo in python. When I speak a bad utterance that the Amazon Echo does not recognize, my skill quits and returns me to the home screen. I am looking to prevent this and repeat what was just uttered by the…
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Do Google or Amazon cache content that's being delivered to their smart speaker devices?

Is any caching of audio files done by Google or Amazon as audio content is being delivered to Google Home or Amazon Echo? I've read that developers do set up their own CDN for these purposes, but it's not clear if any caching happens during delivery…
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Amazon Alexa Music Routine

I just picked up an Amazon Echo Dot for christmas, and I wanted to be able to start a routine on christmas morning, where it would play christmas music and turn on the lights, currently you can only make routines in the app like turn on smart home…
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Dialogflow/API.ai Amazon Echo integration: Simple plain text bot for testing

I have been trying to make my simple test bot (it's just a single intent with three different text based responses) and hook it up to my amazon echo for a proof of concept demo. I am having trouble with the amazon side of the integration. Here are…
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Echo Show python skill not generating display template

I am developing a skill for echo show. However i am not able to display all the display templates and stuff from python lambda skill. I am able to do the alexa skill perfectly and able to add image url's which works fine. But when display template…
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Can't drop in on Echo, but I can call it

I'm trying out the new intercom features of the Alexa devices and when I try to drop in I get this message from Alexa: "to drop in on one of your devices, go to the alexa app, choose your contact name and enable drop in" the problem is that it…
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Echo dot light colours customisation

Is there any provision to manage the light ring on echo device? For example, for certain events, I want to change echo device light ring to red. Can we do that using Alexa skills kit?
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Does an Alex skill need to have an invocation name?

I would like to build a skill to help those with ADHD. I'd like to teach Alexa to automatically do certain tasks, such as remind them to do certain things based on information in their calendar. I want Alexa to help the person with ADHD manage…
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How does Invoking a Skill with a Specific Request work with newSession handler?

You can read here that you can invoke a skill with a specific request. But my skill has a handler for new sessions and as soon as I try to invoke my skill with a specific request it still ends up in this new session function. const handlers = { …
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How can Alexa pronounce something in English while using German in skill settings?

Since I can not find any information at Amazon's SSML documentation, I want ask for help. I have a multi language skill for Alexa. There are several key words in English. So I want Alexa to pronounce them in English and not in German, when the user…
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Android application as new device for Amazon Echo

I spend lest two days for to find something and no result, maybe you can help me. I'm using Amazon Echo Dot and i want to build some android application which can be controlled by Alexa. So i need to know if it's possible to realize next things: 1)…
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The remote endpoint could not be called alexa

I'm trying to develop an alexa skill, whichs communicates with my own webservice (tomcat). To set up the project i followed the amazon guides…
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API and Amazon Echo

My group and I are first-year computer science students and have been working on a project for school the last two months or so. We want to create a faculty directory for our university using the Amazon Echo. We already have an API…
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Amazon Echo Playing Music on Command

Hey everyone so I'm having a difficult time trying to implement an audio playback. Here's the docs So what I really want to do seems quite simple but came out to be very confusing where everything is suppose to go. I want to be able to say a…
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