More than 1 million Bulgarian immigrants scattered across the globe are struggling to preserve their cultural identity/heritage and to pass it over to their children. There are Alexa skills (like "Bulgarian library" skill) which could help them teach BG-language to their children however currently Amazon does not allow access to this skill from anywhere except US,UK,CA,AU. Most of the world (Germany, France, Italy, Spain, etc) has no access to it. So, in this case splitting the globe into regions makes no sense whatsoever.

Would be greatly appreciated by thousands of people IF Amazon allows access to skills which are outside the physical "region" a given person currently resides into (without having to give up all other services tied to that region)

One way to accomplish this is:
As part of certification process, in "opt in for auto distribution" to have additional "exempt from local interaction-model requirement" checkbox along with "why you need this ?" text box where basically the developer could ask for a given skill to be distributed (say in Germany) even though only English interaction-model is implemented. This would be rare case anyway and Amazon still keeps the right to allow if reasonable or deny such request.

Thanks for consideration

Auto duck is a popular feature in audio mixing software like Audacity; it allows a track (A) to play at a desired volume while there is silence on another track (B). Whenever track B is NOT silent, track A automatically reduces its volume, allowing track B to be heard clearly, and both tracks to continue uninterrupted. A automatically returns to its default volume when B is silent once again, and so on for the duration of the track(s).

Example:

Track A: background music
Track B: voiceover (VO) track - spoken phrases separated by variable-length periods of silence.
This use case is common in meditation / relaxation skills, and games.
When there is speech on track B, the music volume (track A) reduces automatically to allow the voiceover on B to be heard clearly. Between spoken phrases, B is silent and the music volume (track A) returns to its default level.

Adding support for this in APLA would enable a much richer audio experience in many types of skill, including games, quizzes, education and relaxing sounds. One approach would be to add an an AutoDuck filter, applicable to items supported by the Mixer component.

```json
{
"type": "Audio",
"source": "${payload.backgroundMusicUrl}",
"filter": [

{

  "type": "AutoDuck",

  "amount": 0.1

}

]
}
```
Without this feature, ducking cannot be achieved natively by developers. They can only approximate the effect using pre-recorded audio, which makes it hard (impossible?) to mix a music track selected at runtime based on skill state, with spoken content pulled from a database.

To help users decide whether a skill should be used it would be great to have a 30 second audio clip with a promo / preview of a skill.

Similar to how the app store has videos or images of apps the user can listen before committing to enabling or invoking the skill.

These clips would surface in three places:

1. On the skills directory page in the Alexa App


2. On the skills directory page in the amazon website


3. As an option to listen to when Alexa recommends a skill

The audio clip would be uploaded / submitted during the submission process as an optional upload item.

These clips could also be videos for multimodal skills.

There are multiple Asks from other Users over a number years, yet Amazon isn’t acting or reacting.

Alexa Context Awareness (Room Awareness) for any device placed in a group + Echo device, to control using natural utterance as long as it is in a group using the object name. (same as lights/switches).

Alexa supports Lights, Switches, Thermostats - today. However myself and many others would like to Control the devices we choose to insert into a group with natural utterances, regardless if they are a Blind/Shade, Awning, Fan, drape etc but use the objects name vs having to utter Alexa Close Blind “XXX1”, then in another room Alexa Close Blind “XXXX2” etc. Amazon should support this to place any device into a group and as long as an Echo device is in the group it has (context / room awareness), using natural utterances to control "Alexa close/open blinds" or “Alexa Raise/Lower Blinds”; “Alexa Turn Fan on/off” just as it works with lights: "Alexa turn lights on/off". You can’t solve this in a routine, its clunky, they are not being adopted by my family as they tell me it’s too complex and not intuitive, plus you need to remember a routine for every room.

If you could support Context Awareness / Room Awareness for Devices placed into a Group in which the Echo device resides, then use natural utterance to control the device(s), without having to use unnecessary naming conventions & utterances. This seems like such an easy fix / implementation and long overdue. Doing this would also encourage more people to purchase more devices to be controlled this way and would also increase Echo insertion & adoption into households.

Please, please can we get this implemented