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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 do I define a custom slot type that isn't a list?

I'm playing around with the Alexa Skills Kit (for the Amazon Echo) and want to create a skill that would send the intent to an AWS Lambda function which would just email something back to me. Sample Utterances would be something like…
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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 accept the Free form text as input to Amazon Skill Kit?

I'm required to create a Amazon Skill Kit to open a ticket in our ticketing tool. By looking at the examples for Amazon Skill Kit, I couldn't find a way of accepting the free form text as input. Other option is by creating a custom slot with all…
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How To Use Amazon Skill Set Without Amazon Echo Device

I am trying to integrate amazon skill kit in my website without an amazon echo unit. I want to implement voice commands on my website using the laptop/PC microphone instead of an echo unit. I have used this tutorial but I didn't find anything about…
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How to test the amazon alexa custom skill through your computer while in development phase?

I am trying to use the sample code provided for Amazon Alexa API, and trying to run hello world / history buff examples through the computer. How do I test from my local machine, about the request and response formats. In the README file it is given…
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How to query third party JSON API from AWS Lambda function

I am working on a "Skill" for the new Amazon ECHO. The skill will allow a user to ask Alexa for information on the status and performance of an Enphase solar system. Alexa will respond with results extracted from the JSON based Enphase API. For…
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Can I give others access to my Alexa Skill while in development before publishing it?

I have an Alexa Skill under development. I would like to grant other people at my company access to the skill in order to test it. Is there a way to do that? So far I've found the…
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Amazon Echo to Raspberry Pi

How can we direct a Amazon Echo intent to a private/internal https endpoint? Like a raspberry pi running nodeJS. Using an "Echo Proxy" still requires to have the service accessible from internet (More on Echo Proxy:…
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Programmatically control Amazon Echo

I want to programatically call web services to control my Amazon Echo. More specifically, I want to control home automation devices linked to the Echo. For instance, I want to turn an electrical outlet on and off using C# code. Can this be done? If…
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How can I continue developing on my Alexa Skill while it is in 'Certification'?

I just submitted a new version for certification and would like to start developing on my next version with new features. But somehow - since my skill is in certification mode I can not start a new dev-version. Is there a way to develop on a new…
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How long can I have my AWS lamba function hold before returning for alexa(amazon echo)?

This is only for a demo and Alexa (Amazon echo) doesn't support us pushing text to it to be spoken randomly so we want to pull off a hack. User speaks into Alexa We have our lambda execute an action and then hopefully sleep and wait on an API…
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How do I handle 'Yes'/'No' responses from the user in Custom Skill?

I am trying to build an alexa custom skill. I am facing an issue where I am trying to get Yes/No responses from the user for a question which the skill asks the user. Alexa: Would you like to know the rules of the game? User:
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Alexa (Amazon Echo) conversation skill - Using Session Attributes (JavaScript - AWS Lambda)

this might be an easy one but I couldn't figure it out in days. I want to make Alexa have a conversation, like; >> Alexa, start testSkill. A: Test Skill started. Tell me a number. >> One. A: Okay, tell me a color now. >> Blue. A: And finally, tell…
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What's an easy way to setup Oauth for an Amazon Alexa Connected Home skill?

I'm trying to prototype an Alexa Connected Home skill and one of the requirements is linking a user's account using Oauth 2.0. Since I'm just building a prototype and I don't have an Oauth server up and running what's the easiest way for me satisfy…
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Programmatically Introduce Pauses or Long Delays into Alexa Skill Capturing Input

I work at a NLI company and I have just created a skill where I have pretty much an open mic session with our Alexa Skill through the Amazon Echo. Everything works fine and I can have an open dialog with our backend knowledge base, without having to…
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