I'm trying to create an Alexa skill which has a fairly wide-open possible number of phrases it could use. Too many to write by hand. I can probably generate the list programmatically, but it chang...

We have an application utilizing Alexa skill with account linking for user details. According to Alexa's account linking documentation: Our skill is set up for Account Linking which in turn re...

During account linking process, Alexa user is redirected and presented with a form to enter his credentials (ID and/or password). Based on what's provided, the user is then being validated by the a...

I am building an Alexa Skill using AWS Lambda and NodeJS. I have two questions: 1) Is it possible for me to retrieve the full transcript of the speaker? In my Alexa phone app, I'm able to read ex...

I'm looking for a way to get the user's location, ideally longitude/latitude but address would work too, from the Alexa Skill Kit request to my custom skill. Also, I don't want to have to have the ...

I'm developing an Alexa skill in node and I'd like to know how I can unit test my code. I'm using the alexa sdk that Amazon released. I've found many libraries to accomplish this, but they seem to...

I intend to build a set of skills for Amazon Alexa that will integrate with a custom software suite that runs on a RaspberryPi in my home. I am struggling to figure out how I can make the Echo / D...

I am working on developing a web service which is used to Handling Requests Sent by Alexa and respond back with specific response in .net framework. The request body sent by Alexa to your service i...

I am playing with ASK SDK v2 provided by Amazon in order to make Skill for Alexa but I face an architectural problem : First of all, the HTTP request works like a charm but I would like to return ...

I'm trying to use Amazon Echo for a utility project within my company. I have a bunch of intranet sites that I intend to gather information from and develop custom skills to let user query for data...

My slot for a custom intent is always being recognised as None. I have an intents schema which looks like this: { "interactionModel": { "languageModel": { "invocationName": "name_of_app", "in...

I'm seeing a weird behavior in Alexa developer console whereby a skill with a configured endpoint value: uses some old cashed value of the endpoint (note the url difference with the above one i...

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...

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 = ...

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. Sampl...

I noticed something strange when testing my interaction model with the Alexa skills kit. I defined a custom slot type, like so: CAR_MAKERS Mercedes | BMW | Volkswagen And my intent scheme was s...

I'm using Lambda (Python) to develop a skill and I'm interested in giving the user some time-related information. On the request object there is a timestamp but that is UTC without offset. Is there...

Trying to find the Signature and SignatureCertChainUrl headers within Amazon's POST request to renew the access token using the refresh token. I deliberately set the access token to expire in 3600 ...

I want to create a simple multi-turn dialog with the Alexa Skill model. My intent consists of 3 slots, each of which are required to fulfill the intent. I prompt every slot and defined all of the n...

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: { "inte...

I am developing an Alexa Skill with one Intent that includes a Slot with several possible values. My slot is defined with "name" : "Channel", "type" : "LIST_OF_CHANNELS", and values iqram ing...

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...

I have two intents that use the same slot types. However, if the input is a random string, Alexa automatically identifies an intent in its JSON request even though it is not part of the utterances....

I'm writing an Alexa Skill, and I can only get single word parameters into my code. Here is the intent schema: { "intents": [ { "intent": "HeroQuizIntent", "slots": [ { "name": "SearchTerm...

I have a value stored in a variable called myStation. Now I'd like to find that value in an array located in another file called station.js. When I find a match I would like to grab the stationID. ...