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Ability for the skill to set up alarms that can be updated daily (with custom sound)
I want to be able to develop a skill that will do the call of a prayer for Muslim users 5 times a day. I get asked by my users all the time about this and I have to explain that Alexa does not allow it.
The idea is simple,
1. the skill should be able to set up 5 alarms every day with custom sound. The custom sound will be the call of the prayer.
2. The skill has to have the ability to autonomously change the time of those 5 alarms every day without the user interaction.It…
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AdjustSeekPosition directive to request an absolute position to the playback position of a media item
AdjustSeekPosition directive does not cover a very basic scenario as below:
"Alexa, seek to 50 minutes 30 seconds on device."This really helps for Prime Video apps where in 10 seconds seek button is already present, however, to go to a specific position on the timeline, there is no button and the user has to struggle to find the position by dragging the seek bar and every time wait for buffering. With this Skill, we can automate the much needed manual task.
https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/device-apis/alexa-seekcontroller.html
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Ambient Soundtrack in alexa skills
It would be nice to have some kind of soundtrack controller to always have a background music play that automatically ducks when Alexa speaks.
Something easy, that can be changed based on variablesIt would go a looooong way for all the gaming experiences in alexa
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Implement the Notify Me skill, or something similar as a general option for ASK developers
There is an extremely low amount of skills that can be used with the Proactive Events API. For Developers that need to send notifications to end users, this is abhorrent. I'm an IOT Developer within local government, looking to send users notifications for garbage and bridge closures, yet none of the schemas are applicable, even the Trash one is limited to a set of options that doesn't accurately convey the required information. This means that developers have to use workarounds, such as the Notify Me skill to be able to send that information to End Users, and also means that…
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Fast forward/rewind in Audio Player
It would be nice if we were able to implement fast forward and rewind capability in the Audio Player API. There is no built in intent that would allow us to do this. This would also need to include the current offsetinms (the amount of time that has been played so far) in the request to the code.
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phone to alexa
it would be interesting to have the possibility to activate a skill by pressing a button from an app or by pressing a link on a website.
Here is an example scenario.
The skil "Magnitudine Assoluta" (amzn1.ask.skill.27a6febc-be8c-46ad-94a8-3211d12d87ad) satisfies the user's requests by searching on the website www.magnitudine-assoluta.it the topics desired by the user.
But if the user is comfortably lying on the sofa with the phone in his hand and is browsing the site, he could find an article, understand that he is interested and press a link "Listen with Alexa", which somehow activates an intent of the skill on…
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Alexa to play audio and listen at the same time
can Alexa listen and play audio at the same time?
This could be in a quiz format for example, Alexa asks a quiz question and then plays dramatic/ tense music until the user responds with an answer
For UX reasons, it would be good to avoid making the user use the wake word. I don't really want them to have to start each answer with "Alexa,.." or whatever.
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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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Allow outDir and build command for Alexa hosted skill
When using Alexa hosted skill there's no ability to define the
"outDir": "dist" instead a hardcoded index.js is always used. While this isn't a blocker it's not a great experience.It would be nice to define a build command when the deploy happens for example in package.json under scripts like the following
npm run compile
which would then compile the TypeScript source code in the src directory and output it to the dist directory.
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Golang ASK SDK (Custom + Smart Home)
I have been developing Smart Home Skills in Golang and would like to move into a hybrid model (Custom + Smart Home).
I realized that the SDKs for the various features in the Custom Alexa Skills are available in Java, Python, and Javascript.Considering the skills are triggered through Lambda functions and Golang is a supported platform, could you let me know if a Go SDK might be on your roadmap? It will help to decide the course of further development.
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deploy skill to a new profile
Currently it's not possible to use the profile to deploy an Alexa skill to a second AWS account. The aim of this feature to enable this capability in ask-cli to use ask deploy --profile command to deploy the skill to a new account.
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Access to raw speach-to-text input
I am creating a skill that needs to work in a mix mode environment: One that takes advantage of Alexa's natural language engine (slots/intents) and one that allows me to handle raw user input as text. Could it be possible to integrate "Amazon Transcribe" with Alexa to achieve this? I have implemented a work around using dynamic entities but the processing time makes the transaction too slow and impractical as an app.
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APL Transform Rotate Y and X on 2D objects
I would like to see more CSS transforms for animation commands such as transform: rotateY() or rotateX on 2D objects.
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Allow Access to User Response Audio Clip
I need access to the user response audio clip in order to map intonations, pitch, speed, etc. Please prioritize enriching the ASK SDK with a method to retrieve the audio response clip and ability to save the audio clip to a json, mp3, or wav file for processing.
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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.
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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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SpeakItem element that is being read
Provide ability to know the SpeakItem element that is currently being read (and being notified about it). Why? To keep the state, and when the user activate the skill again, it can start reading from the last SpeakItem element.
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outbound calling
Please add the feature whereby a particular utterance would invoke Alexa to make an outbound call to a hard-coded phone number.
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APL: Add the ordinalText parameter to AlexaTextListItem
AlexaTextListItem's layout includes AlexaOrdinal. The latter has the parameter ordinalText. It would be nice to add to AlexaTextListItem the same parameter and pass it to the internal AlexaOrdinal.
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