Alexa Skills - Developer Voice And Vote
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Ability to make API requests on the local network
Lambda function would ask echo to query the local network and echo would send the response to lambda function (like it does with the function to speak/listen).
This would allow API requests on devices which are not open on the public network. Like a TV box, to use its tv remote control's API. Or a home automation box ... etc
I live in France and my network provider (Free Telecom) provide a tv remote control's API for box TV. But it's working only on my local network. For my usage i could use a proxy on a Raspberry PI but…
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Provide locale property in event (Skillevent, Listevent) to allow translation
Current localization documentation states the following:
"Note that list events and skill events that are sent to your service do not include the locale property."
https://developer.amazon.com/de/docs/custom-skills/develop-skills-in-multiple-languages.htmlRequest / idea:
Please add locale support to Skillevents and Listevents as well so that event based skill can be translated based on that information. Currently developers can only use a fallback language - e.g. english.
According to Alexa dev forum there is no workaround in place as well.
I would need the "locale" property in the "request" for the corresponding event type. E.g. "AlexaHouseholdListEvent.ItemsCreated".
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Make built in APL components to be more flexible
My use case requires image lists in APL but with some custom styling to match branding. It would be great if I could override some of the styles in an AlexaImageList component to get the benefit of all the existing responsive behaviour and at the same time, apply required colors
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timer smarthome
Capability to Set timer and Get timer on Non cooking appliances should be added.
Like to set timer on Laundry appliances or dish appliances and get time remaining on those appliances.
2 votes -
Allow visual skill developers to hold the screen open without resorting to APL "delay" commands
The only way to hold a skill open (as far as I can tell) is to use long-running APL "delay" commands. I've also heard of people playing a silent audio file to prevent closure. This is not great. Can we have a feature to explicitly hold the session open until the user closes it?
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get "your locations" from within the skill
Alexa users have the ability to store location addresses using the Alexa App, example work, school, groceries, etc. It would be great if we could get this information from within the skill itself, with user permissions of course. This would work just like retrieving the device address. We can build skills that get direction or transit information for user's favorite locations.
2 votes -
The RequestInterceptor interface should provide an optional response parameter
This would make it possible to do some common parameter checking before the request gets passed on to the real handler and return a response if there is a problem that negates the need for more processing.
2 votes -
Additional parameter support while account linking
Kindly provide support for an additional parameter support in account linking process. I have a scenario in which I need to know the user region. For eg if a user has signed up in service at (.com) region then all the intents inside will use the endpoints with .com and if the user has account in .eu region then all the intent action endpoints go as .eu. So there should be an option to specify the region and to store that under user while making each request to the intent.
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2 votes
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Provide develops the ability to enable users to call (VOIP) through Alexa
We have a number of use cases where the objective is to enable the user to speak to a live person:
- Call a restaurant to order a meal
- Call the right doctor's office
- Call the "Call Center" for a particular pharmaceutical
As the capability to use VOIP through Alexa already exists, providing it to developers through the SDK would enable us to greatly improve user experience and fulfill our use cases through voice UI alone.
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Document All ASK CLI skill.json Config Options
Would like to see all possible options for the ASK CLI Config. especially for those with restricted values. e.g. possible categories, locales, various options in apis['interfaces'], etc. in skills.json
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Feature Request: Provide the Alexa Speech Recognition result in text
I want an API to get the Alexa Speech Recognition text result. For example,
user says "Alexa, what is the weather today?"
device microphone records the sound and processes it as binary audio, then send to Alexa cloud service
due to the accent, distance, background noise or something else, Alexa may get any of the following result as transcription text from the input binary audio stream:
"Alexa, what the weather today?"
"Alexa, what is the wee today?"
"Alexa, what is the bad weather today?
I hope this API could get the actual Alexa recognition/transcription result in text and return.2 votes -
Allow intent forwarding without user utterance
I'd like to programmatically invoke an intent from the handler of another intent to make dialogue flow easier on the user. For example, let's say I am in the LaunchRequest handler and I query a database to see if a user has made a previous purchase through my skill. If they have, I'd like to prompt them when the skill launches, "Would you like to purchase your most recent item again?" to which they can answer "yes" or "no" and use the YesIntent and NoIntent to forward them to the proper handler (for example, "PurchaseAgainIntent" or "NewPurchaseIntent"). However, when I…
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rendering template for smartphone displays
since the last update photos within skills are finally also shown in android display. these correspond to the bodytemplate 3 for echo devices with displays. it would be nice if you could also set the bodytemplate for skills that also appear on smartphones displays. if you try to include the bodytemplates in the code the skill crashes in the alexa app.
to get it to the point. the function "card.renderer()" is automatically set to bodytemplate3. The developer should have the possibility to decide in which template format the photos should appear on the app with the function card.renderer().
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Indicate whether a reprompt has been spoken (or not).
I have an ASK v2, node.js lambda function that prompts and reprompts in the regular way with the prompt (.speak()) providing information and and eliciting the next utterance, followed by a couple of other example utterances (let's call them hints) in the reprompt, something like:
return responseBuilder
.speak('blah blah blah. What would you like next?')
.reprompt('You might say something like When do you open? ' +
'or How much are tickets?')
.getResponse()I have a set of hints and try to speak them in a way that exposes the most useful first, followed by the not-quite-so-useful next, and so on.
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2 votes -
Add alexa smart home directive to remove a grant (Unlink / Disable skill)
Similarly to the AcceptGrant Directive. https://developer.amazon.com/docs/device-apis/alexa-authorization.html#acceptgrant
Would be nice to receive an event (DeleteGrant?) whenever the user tap on the disable skill button.
In this way we can clean/free resources on our side too.
Currently the only way to detect that a user had disabled the skill is with the error response from the alexa event gateway.2 votesHello,
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Echo Look Support
The Echo Look doesn't currently have any support in the Node SDK. I would like to develop an app that takes advantage of the video and picture capability of this device.
2 votes -
Provide TypeScript Examples
The SDKv2 is built with TypeScript and I'd like to see example apps also built using TypeScript.
2 votes -
"Soft launch" new skill without showing up in "suggested skills" list
I'd like to "soft launch" a new skill so that it doesn't show up in the "suggested skills" list in the SkillShop, but it shall be fully live, searchable and publicly available. Besides I want to get the usual statistics like who is installing, how many organic hits per day etc.
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Profanity Filter
Please provide an api for checking if a given text has any profane words violating the Amazon policy here - https://developer.amazon.com/docs/custom-skills/policy-testing-for-an-alexa-skill.html#mature
I am trying to implement one for my app and its a very iterative process working with the alexa certification team. It will help multiple developers if there is such an api.
2 votes
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