Questions tagged [alexa-skills-kit]
The Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) is a software development framework that enables you to create content, called skills. Skills are like apps for Alexa. With an interactive voice interface, Alexa gives users a hands-free way to interact with your skill.
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Is APL supported on the new Echo Spot
I was building a test Alexa skill to show a image on a Echo Spot model that just came out earlier this month. I tested it on a APL Response editor and it seem to work fine. On the simulator, it had ...
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Audio stream plays on Alexa app but not on echo dot
I’ve created an Alexa audio player skill to stream longform audio (.m3u8 playlist of segments).
It works great on the Alexa app, but I cannot get any audio on the echo dot.
Any reason why it would ...
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Alexa skill doesn't launch audio stream in EN-US
I have a simple lambda python code that loads an audio stream. I have tested it numerous times in dev and live and it works in EN-AU, EN-CA, EN-IN, and EN-UK. The only thing it does it EN-US is load ...
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Alexa Skill Fails to Respond Despite Successful Build and Deployment
I'm trying to write an Alexa skill using the Alexa Developer Console. Here are the details of my setup:
Skill Name: testone
Locale: en-GB
Model: Custom
Alexa Hosted: Node.js
Started from scratch, ...
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Sending commands to Alexa via text using API
Since the AVS (Alexa Voice Services) have been abandoned I don't see anymore a reliable way to automate sending command to Alexa.
My use case is building and Android plugin for Tasker/Macrodroid which ...
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How to call an API that requires authentication in an Alexa skill
I am creating an Amazon Alexa skill in Python that would query some information from my company's system. However, when I try to call the API that would return the access token, it shows me the error &...
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The directive \"Dialog.ElicitSlot\" is missing OutputSpeech after building skill from Voiceflow
I was building a Alexa Skill from a no-code service called "Voiceflow", and I had made a couple of utterances from a year ago and recently, I was updating a skill by adding a extra utterance ...
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Building Alexa skill that does REST API get request
I am building an alexa app that should fetch energy consumption data from a website via API and API key, i have build a skill on alexa developer console,however i am confused whether I need AWS ...
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alexa.SmartVision.ObjectDetectionSensor Interface 1.0
does someone have a sample skill code with alexa.SmartVision.ObjectDetectionSensor Interface 1.0 implementation , because I have been trying from a long time to implement this for a doorbell device ,...
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Linking unsuccesful when trying to perform account linking with a php api rest that implements LWA from the Alexa app
I'm trying to build an Alexa skill that is capable of accesing to some information through account linking with a php api rest hosted in xampp built by me. To be able to perform the account linking, ...
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Invocation/utterance phrasing
I'm developing a custom Alexa skill and I am at the stage where I need to decide how to invoke my application with the most natural phrasing.
My application adds items that you specify to add to a ...
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Is there a way to make custom proactive events / notifications for my alexa skill?
As of right now I am able to get proactive events working as I need because it is in regards to packages which amazon provides a schema for in their proactive events api.
I now need it for the purpose ...
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How do I set up a virtual Alexa device for testing a skill locally in VS Code?
I am trying to set up Visual Studio Code so that I can test an Alexa Skill in Python. I am following the instructions on this page:
https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/ask-toolkit/vs-code-...
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Getting Started with Alexa home control
I would like to start a project which would have these capabilities, on a headless RaspberryPi (or ubuntu-based) device.
Accumulate list of all devices in my account (lights are the primary device-...
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What are the differences between the Silk browser environment and the Amazon APL web environment?
I am using a custom Alex skill to display a web page on an Amazon Echo Show 5. The skill uses the APL OpenURL command to open the web page in an APL document. The page does not display properly using ...