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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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Force responses to be from a specific custom slot, repeatedly

I'm attempting to write a "trivia quiz" skill, like many others that already exist, but I would like the user to be able to give actual answers rather than "a/b/c" or "1/2/3". So the conversation will go like this: Alexa: Which planet is closest to…
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How to answer a datetime with Alexa?

I need my Alexa skill to answer a time to the user. Is there any good way to do this ? I'm using nodeJS. Currently I have a date like this (2017-03-17T22:45:00+0100) or a timestamp (1489790820). How to tell Alexa to answer "ten forty five p.m." or…
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Amazon Echo 'Remote endpoint could not be called'

I've been struggling trying to write a working code in order to controll my lights using a Amazon Echo (Alexa) with a JSON-url. I've read many examples and tried lots of different combinations, but I can't get it to work. The launch request does…
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Alexa Skill - Keep Intent alive for dialogue

For demonstrations purposes I should devolop an Alexa Skill on a dialogue basis. All the alexa responses are hardcoded. The template of the skill is like: Part 1: User: Alexa, ask MySkill {Question1}. Alexa: Hardcoded answer. Part 2: User: Alexa,…
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Alexa/Echo - Invoking a Skill with Intent via Echo vs. Testing with text

I have an Intent that is a sentence like: Tell us about {Topic} A topic could be a few things from a list (custom slot type), each item can be between 1 and 3 words. When I open the skill first ("Alexa, open Skill Name"), and then test it with…
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Amazon echo change beep sound

I just finished installing amazon echo on my raspberry pi. Im thinking how could I change the beep sound (feedback sound) after you say "alexa" to something else. Like an audio file which says Im listening. Anyone ever tried or thought about…
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Is it possible to be notified by Amazon Echo when it starts and stops speaking?

i want to change audio source on my home cinema when Alexa is speaking so I need to be notified when it starts and stops. somehow this seems like a more generic integration than a skill.
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How can I get Amazon echo to respond to "preheat the car" or "what's the car battery status"? (they get hijacked)

I'm trying to create some skills for my Echo (for my own use, I'm not concerned about the invocation names not getting through review). I've set my invocation name as "the car" (I also tried "car"). I wanted to be able to ask what my battery status…
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Bypassing speech recognition in Amazon AVS

As I understand AVS you send an audio clip to the API which is parsed for speech recognition and then interprets that text and gives you some result based on what you asked. What I want to do is make kind of a cli version of Alexa where you type in…
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Custom slot for StartOverIntent

How to set up slots with AMAZON.StartOverIntent utterance? Ex: I want to start the skill with a custom slot value as in Alexa, ask the definition of I read that AMAZON.StartOverIntent cannot have custom slot so I broke it…
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AWS Lambda calling SNS

I'm playing with my Amazon Echo and wrote a little function which I hope would text me after a response from my daughter. The code executes fine - but the sns.publish never happens. It fails silently - I can't raise an error. I believe I have the…
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Get text from voice command with Alexa echo dot

I am trying to create a new skill with Alexa Skill Kit and node-red. I created a web service and linked alexa to it. Now when I call the service via voice command with Alexa Echo dot I don't get the raw text (transcription of my voice). I only got…
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Amazon echo can connect via bluetooth as router with third party wearable device like a Fitbit?

I'm making wearable device like a Fitbit. I want to know if I can use Echo to connect our device via bluetooth as router. Then, it should be allowed to send some data to our web server from Echo. (For now, it's connected with smartphone) Is this…
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Amazon Echo app with login

I tried to develope simple app for Amazon echo and it's working. Now I want to create app with login but have no idea how to start. How can I set up login into Alexa app on phone? I mean when you install new skill there should be login screen (for…
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How to integrate Google Home/Amazon Echo with Arduino/Pi?

I want integrate a voice assistant and a Raspberry Pi and/or Arduino for some projects. I'm looking for information on how to actually achieve this. I'm unfamiliar with how integrating these works, but I'd like to avoid having to use external…
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