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Alexa Skill is Amazon’s voice service

Alexa is Amazon’s voice service and the brain behind tens of millions of devices like the Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, and Echo Show. Alexa provides capabilities, or skills, that enable customers to create a more personalized experience. There are now tens of thousands of skills from companies like Starbucks, Uber, and Capital One as well as other innovative designers and developers.

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Amazon Echo - Push a message to the device

I have integrated my amazon echo device with the amazon portal associated to my account. I was able to create my own custom question with the Alexa Skills Kit and process with an AWS Lambda function to generate a response. My question is: is it…
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Alexa Skill not recognized when tested on Echo

I was doing one of the tutorials (HelloWorld) to make a skill for the Echo and I followed the directions. When I tested the skill using the Service Simulator, I typed in Alexa, tell Greeter to say hello and that returned the following JSON…
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How to end session for custom Alexa skill?

I am creating a custom skill for Alexa. I want to close the session on AMAZON.StopIntent. How can I achieve this with below code? const ExitHandler = { canHandle(handlerInput) { const request = handlerInput.requestEnvelope.request; return…
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Differences between using Lex and Alexa

I'm building an Alexa skill that will allow Alexa users to interact with a consumer facing e-commerce site. There is functionality to call a representative that already exists on the site. Now, I want to build out a voice app as a side project…
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Alexa skill SSML max length

What is the maximum length, or limits of, the SSML attribute in an Amazon Echo Alexa skill JSON response? "outputSpeech": { "type": "SSML", "ssml": "This output speech uses SSML." }
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Alexa Skill Development using flask-ask and ngrok

I'm trying to begin developing a skill for alexa using flask-ask and ngrok in python. Following is my code: from flask import Flask from flask_ask import Ask, statement, question, session import json import requests import time import unidecode app…
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Alexa, Unable to link your skill

I am creating custom skill in Alexa which uses account linking. I have created my own authentication server using OAuth2 php library and I have configured the authorization url and token urls in skill configuration. When I try account linking from…
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How to check and get Alexa slot value with Python ask sdk

In my interaction model I defined a slot named city that is optional, not required, to fulfill an intent. I'm using the python ask sdk, so my handler is this: class IntentHandler(RequestHandler): """ Intent handler """ def…
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Alexa Skill - How to get complete text of statement asked to alexa

I am creating an Alexa skill, I have coded several custom and default intents and they are working fine. Now I want to write a fallback intent wherein I want to get the exact statement asked/sent to Alexa skill, is there a way wherein we may get the…
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How to test the amazon alexa custom skill through your alexa enabled device while in development phase?

I have created a skill and would like to test it on the device itself? I have managed to test it on echosim.io.
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Alexa skill kit vs Alexa Voice Service

I'm working on an Alexa skill (for Echo), and i've looked into Alexa skill kit from the very start. Now, i'm confused about Alexa Voice Service. i've read documentation on Amazon, but cannot understand it in a better way. Please guide about What's…
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Alexa not finding my Skill

I created my Alexa Skill as an AWS Lambda Node.js app based on one of the provided examples in the Alexa Skills Kit. I followed all the instructions: My Echo is registered with the same account as my developer account on AWS I configured my Skill…
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Is it possible to get custom attributes on AWS Cognito sign up form?

I am building an Alexa Skill that will implement Account Linking. When a user uses my skill, they would have to use the Alexa App to sign-in. The Authentication UI is set up and managed by Amazon Cognito so that I don’t have to host my own sign-in…
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Alexa skill not invoked in the Amazon Alexa app, but it works in the development console

When the skill is under development, I can invoke it in the development console. In the Echo or the Amazon Alexa app the skill is not invoking. The skill is showing under the skills & games tab in the app and it is enabled. Anybody knows how to…
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How to configure Alexa ask-cli with a valid AWS profile?

After playing around with the nice browser GUIs of developer.amazon.com and aws.amazon.com things getting serious and now I want to use ask-cli to initialize Alexa skills and their lambda functions. When I want to ask init, it tells me, I should…
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