Questions tagged with alexa-sdk-nodejs are concerned with development of alexa-skills using the alexa-sdk for nodejs
The Alexa-Skills-Kit-SDK for nodejs has been publish on github https://github.com/alexa/alexa-skills-kit-sdk-for-nodejs
Questions tagged [alexa-sdk-nodejs]
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How to install Node Version Manager(NVM) without admin rights
I have no admin rights in my windows machine. Can I install NVM without admin rights? I tried using the environment variable path setup, but its not working in my case.
Sandra Pavan
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alexa not recognizing intent
I'm trying to add my own responses to custom intents. The LaunchRequest text works, but other than the AMAZON.HelpIntent and other default intents, my own do not get recognized.
Intents:
{
"interactionModel": {
"languageModel": {
…
DaReal
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Get User Contacts using alexa-sdk
I am building an alexa skill which sends sms for alexa-user. (Ofcourse there is business logic behind when to send these messages). And I have two hurdles in the process:-
Alexa can send sms to anybody from users device, is that feature exposed to…
Dave Ranjan
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How to use async functions within Alexa skill properly?
I am very new to async programming, so forgive me for the lack of understanding, but I am currently building an Alexa skill which calls a private parking API. You can call this API and it will give you the nearest parking spots.
const…
user12558632
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Problem with ask (alexa skill kit) CLI- ask deploy and ask dialog/simulate creating odd error. Maybe problem with connecting to the endpoint
Everything worked fine, until I started to get this error when I use "ask dialog":
Error: This utterance did not resolve to any intent in your skill. Please invoke your skill and try again with a different utterance or update your interaction…
Shir Ganot
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Alexa Skill NodeJS - Combine speak and addAudioPlayerPlayDirective
I want to be able to do the following:
make alexa say something
play audio file
make alexa say something else
I have tried the following code which does not work:
const IntentHandler = {
canHandle(handlerInput) {
return…
minlare
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How to get time passed from Alexa response to user reply?
Is it possible to get the time users take to answer a command from Alexa using the alexa-sdk? To make it more visual, I'm trying to measure the following:
User says: "Alexa open my app"
Alexa says: "Welcome to my app, say next to go to the next…
Javier Villanueva
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Alexa: Can we combine flash briefing and conversational custom skill together?
I have read many articles which specifies flash briefing as a separate skill and custom skill as an independent skill
Is it possible to combine flash briefing and custom skill together or is it not available right now?
user2936008
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alexa sdk pass session attributes
This Alexa Doc shows that the sessionAttributes is one of the response parameters and not within the response object.
I'm using the Alexa SDK and all of the emit response builders only use the response object's parameters. For…
Jay A. Little
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Elicit Slot from within HelpIntent in Alexa
I have implemented a multi-turn dialog for Alexa. The Help-Intent provides different Help-Texts depending on the state of the dialog. After the User has triggered the HelpIntent and was presented the Help-Text, I want to elicit a specific slot with…
Tobias Gassmann
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Call AES SES sendEmail from a Alexa skill
I have been trying for weeks now to figure out how to invoke a call to sendEmail from an Alexa-hosted node.js skill. It is a very simple skill where the user makes a selection. when the selection is made I want to send a email to myself with…
user2821620
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Alexa Audio Player Directive - Speak After Audio Played
I am trying to make an Alexa fitness app and when the user begins an exercise, Alexa explains the exercise and then plays an audio file. I would like to then get Alexa to explain the second exercise and play the next audio file. Repeating this for…
Martin Nolan
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How can I make my Alexa skill play a simple mp3 file?
I am attempting to write an Alexa skill that simply plays an MP3 file. I modified the default "hello world" lambda with this code:
const Alexa = require('ask-sdk-core');
const LaunchRequestHandler = {
canHandle(handlerInput) {
return…
johncorser
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Unable to process alexa intent
My code is not running, can anybody help.
Unable to speak out the text, can i return handler input response. The test function is a http call which may take tieme.
function test(url, number)
{
return 5;
}
function speak(handlerInput) {
…
Prateek Rathore
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How do I ask for a voice rating of an Alexa skill?
I've seen some Alexa skills that ask me to rate the skill through a dialog. It asks me how would I rate it from 1 to 5 stars.
I don't see any information in the documentation concerning that. How do I implement this feature?
Jordi P.S.
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