When I have asked Alexa to start playing a CD in one room, but I am moving to another room, I don’t want to restart from the beginning. I want to be able to say “Alexa, follow me to the kitchen” and have what I was doing in the living room appear instead in the kitchen. If I am going back and forth a lot, it may be nice to be able to say “add the kitchen” and have it play in both places, but then be able to remove one device by saying “stop playing in the kitchen”. I have an Alexa in every room, so when I start music in the bathroom while taking a shower, I want to be able to have that music move to my bedroom when I’m done in the shower. This voice command would allow for that. Right now I’m listening to Tran-Siberian Orchestra’s Christmas Eve and other Stories Album in my room. I have to go to my office upstairs to work, but I don’t want to stop and restart the album.

Why the current behaviour (animation (AnimateItem) starts after the Alexa speech) should be changed:
-As long as the animation is playing the user cannot directly interact with Alexa, only if the user use the activation word he can interact again with Alexa, this could be confusing.
-If the animation is more like a bonus or a visualisation to the Alexa speech it should start directly with the response.
Solutions:
-Set the animation to start with the response and not after the Alexa speech
-Give developers two options, "start with response" or "start after alexa speech"
-Separate the animation from the normal speech behaviour, so that it is really just a background animation -> so I can run a full loop animation from speech to reprompt to quit skill because no answer from the user
-Give the option to interrupt the animation with a normal interaction or with the activation word interaction

When using dynamic entities (slots type whose values are updated through the Dynamic Entities API), there is a limit of 100 values, including synonyms. Over this limit, the update request is simply ignored.
This limit is far not enough since it includes synonyms: if having 30 slots for instance, each slot having 10 synonyms, we already are over the limit (we have then 300 values to update).

The skill I develop is a game where the user can interact with objects in the place or in his pockets. He often have near of 20 possible objects, and to make them easy to interact in a natural way, I have to propose lot of synonyms for each element (to ensure that he will reach the desired element however he choose to call it).

Please increase this limit to much more (500 or 1000).

I have tried working with the VideoApp directive. There are many limitations to it.

1) You cant move previous or next in it. Thus you can play only one video at once which is not feasible.

2) After the video gets finished, the session times out at different intervals every time.
Eg. When video played the first time, the session remains active for a longer interval of time, when the video is played second time in the same session, the session remains active for a very short span of time. This is an unexpected behaviour.

I would request to add more functionalities for efficient video streaming through VideoApp directive.

While audio player is running, user can only move next or previous in the audio player. The session closes so any other command for skill has to be made after again reopening the session by saying invocation name which creates such an awkward user experience.

There are below use cases in the skill that i want to develop.
1) Let user purchase product in between on going songs
2) Let user navigate to main menu while audio player is playing.
3) Let user choose from playlist while audio is playing in audio player

All the above three are restricted as of now because after playing audio, the session of the skill just closes.

This is a concern for not just me but many developers. There needs to be a better way and a better solution for this.