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Amazon Alexa adding a custom utterance to an intent that would get triggered while music streaming is playing

I am currently developing an Alexa Custom Skill that need to stream a radio station. I managed to get the streaming on with handlerInput.responseBuilder.addAudioPlayerPlayDirective('REPLACE_ALL', url, '1', 0, null, stream.metadata); . I am now…
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How to disable certain intents in custom Alexa skill?

... CountryIntent{ ... }; CityIntent{ ... }; YesIntent{ ... }; FallBackIntent{ ... }; ... I'm building custom Alexa skill. User calls CityIntent from CountryIntent. But, if user accidentally says YES, he'll call YesIntent from CountryIntent; that…
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How to regain control after dialogState == COMPLETED, Alexa delegateDialog

I have a dialog that works correctly, I delegate this dialog to Alexa for the intent BeginDiagnosisIntent which prompts the user to fill the slot values for age and gender, which are slots of BeginDiagnosisIntent. However, when the last slot value…
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Question about Alexa Dialog Directives: addElicitSlotDirective() - Slot eliciting

I have a fairly simple question that I believe should have a straight forward answer, but I can't seem to find it in the documentation. My question is: Does "addElicitSlotDirective" elicit a slot from the current intent from where it's called or…
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Chaining intents doesn't work as expected

Say my custom skill is named Portal Entry. Here's what I need to do: User: "Alexa, open Portal Entry" Alexa: "Ok, would you like to perform task ABC or do XYZ?" User: "Perform task ABC" Alexa: "Ok, performing task ABC" [...] executes function…
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how to get information from user on alexa skill launch

I've got an Alexa app that on first launch looks for the user's id in a dynamoDB. If it isn't there I'd like it to ask the user for their ip address. I have an intent that can collect the IP but I was wondering if I could trigger the intent from the…
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Alexa Skills - Intent being invoked without the correct utterance

So I'm creating an Alexa skill using the Alexa Developer Console with a Python backend. I've just started a new skill, with the 'Hello World' template, so it has the default utterances of hi, hello, etc. When testing the skill, using the Alexa…
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How to pass list of value to an alexa slot in an intent

I want to define an order intent something like "I want two pencil,one notebook, four cardbox". In alexa build model it looks something like the following I want {itemQuantity}{itemList} here {itemQuantity} is defined as Amazon.number and …
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How to tell Alexa to jump to a specific intent from LaunchRequest based on user input

I am quite new in Alexa development so please excuse my ignorance. The Alexa skill I am developing requires the following: Users will awake the skill along with a question, e.g. Alexa, ask marketing platform about result of last campaign I am…
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Alexa Skill - Programmatically Enable/Disable Slot Matching

I have an Alexa skill that at one point asks for names, and at another point asks for numbers. The names are being mapped to a slot of type AMAZON.FirstName and the numbers to a slot of type AMAZON.NUMBER. The problem is that Alexa is aggressively…
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