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Support Garage Door opener on es-ES Locale
It seems garage door opener are only supported on Locale en-US.
When trying to certify our skill we get the following message from the certifcation team:
One of the language variants of your Smart Home skill includes
functionality that is not yet available for Alexa in that language. Please remove any unsupported functionality from the skill before resubmitting.Unsupported Functionality: Garage Doors
Language(s) Impacted: Spanish (Spain)2 votes -
Standard Built-in Intent: PurchaseIntent
ISP requires a "purchase"-intent to be available in the interaction model, currently every developer implements his own "purchase"-intent with his own utterances. This is not user friendly, as a user cannot rely on being able to use learned utterances from "skill A" in "skill B". So my idea is a new standard built-in "PurchaseIntent".
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Provide means for testing headless responses in Dev Console
Currently one can only simulate a device with a display in the dev console. It would be nice if Dev Console provided a means to test a headless response, given that those make up the most significant share of user requests.
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Add option to request user input and parse to other steps
When creating a routine, have an option to add a step where Alexa seeks user input (voice) so that additional information or steps can be configured. Would work well with integration of logic gates in routine builder as well, and ability to parse user input to future steps.
Ex. ‘Goodnight’ routine that turns off living room lights/tv and asks about turning on bedroom tv.
User: Alexa, I’m heading to bed.
Alexa: Do you want me to turn on the bedroom TV for you?
User: Yes
Routine runs standard commands to turn off living room lights and tv, as well as…
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Add a Dictionary Built-in Slot Type
Add a Dictionary Built-in Slot Type. This would allow a slot to be filled with any word in the dictionary. The Alexa Lists allow this. For example, I can say Alexa, add _____ to my shopping list. I would like to allow my skill to ask for any word and then process it in the backend. In order to simulate this, I need to use up the allowed characters in my slot definition. If it was built-in, it would probably allow more words, would be faster and would not use any of my allowed characters.
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accept beta test invitation just by voice
as voice services are ideal for users with visual handicap, I would like to involve those people in beta testing a new skill version. Activating a production skill via voice works great today. Entering the beta testing phase can not be done with voice only and therefore those testers need another person to help out.
Therefore I suggest to allow enabling the skill beta testing phase only by voice commands like "activate beta test for skill xyz" as well as dropping out of the beta test by voice like "stop beta test for skill xyz"1 vote -
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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Update Alexa Skill state from external, non-voice sources, especially w.r.t. Echo Show
My smarthome product reacts to Alexa commands. But sometimes I want the device to tell Alexa about its state. Let's say my product has a volume slider... I want to tell Alexa when that slider is used and have my skill update the volume indicator on screen (echo show).
You can imagine this might also apply to stock tickers or weather updates or any outside information that might change between utterances.
If I recall correctly, this kind of thing is available in "smart home" skills, but that archetype was too restrictive for my purposes. My skill is just a normal…
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Make better guesses when AMAZON.musician and AMAZON.musicalRecording are in the same intent
Right now AMAZON.musician and AMAZON.musicalRecording are chosen independently when the context of the two together could be used to make better guesses.
Yesterday, my skill heard "Wonderful Night" by "Eric Clapton" and caused an error. There's no reason Alexa shouldn't be able to assume that I meant "Wonderful TOnight", a song by Eric Clapton.
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Support APLA documents & directives for reprompts
The new APLA Documents are great for providing rich audio responses at runtime to users.
However, we are still stuck using the reprompt object in responses, and this can only contain PlainText or SSML.
For a user who has just experienced an immersive experience but then hears a low-quality reprompt (especially when the audio element is used), this could seem disjoint.
It would be great if we could use APLA documents in multimodal reprompts too :)
Cheers.
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Enable change logs for Alexa ASK console and CLI
Access Logs and Change history are needed to effectively monitor the changes done by various users in ASK developer console and ASK CLI. In the absence of the access logs and change history, large organizations with multiple ASK users have no way to track changes to Alexa skill in production. If the administrator of the Alexa account has the ability to view change logs, it will give the ability to effectively monitor user changes.
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Enhancements to ASK developer console and CLI/SMAPI User Roles
The current permissions for various roles in ASK developer console and CLI/SMAPI are very broad. Large organizations need more control over roles to effectively manage Enterprise level skills. This feature request is to give organizations the ability to configure granular level access based on the roles as shown below.
Description Administrator Marketer Developer Analyst
Create Skill Yes No No No
Delete Skill Yes No No No
Creating a new
Intent Yes No Yes No
Deleting Intents Yes No Yes No
Modify Existing
intents Yes Yes Yes Yes
Updating
distribution detailsYes Yes Yes No
Skill Submission/Publishing/Hide/
Remove the skill Yes No…1 vote -
Decrease false triggers
have Alexa respond to “hey Alexa” (or hey Echo, or hey Amazon, or hey computer) like other AI assistants so Alexa won’t false-activate every time she hears her name or something like it in conversation or on the radio or on TV?
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Support garage door opener in German
Alexa lacks support for garage door openers in German. We have customers requesting this feature. Our skills supports it, but German users cannot use it because Alexa support is absent.
Response from certification team:
One of the language variants of your Smart Home skill includes functionality that is not yet available for Alexa in that language. Please remove any unsupported functionality from the skill before resubmitting.Unsupported Functionality: security garage door
Language(s) Impacted: DE5 votes -
for video doorbell, the video automatic live on alexa, short time.. just 10 sec!
for video doorbell, the video automatic live on alexa, short time.. just 10 sec! can make 1-2 mins
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Let users reply while Alexa is speaking (without wake word)
Reasons:
Because it's so natural for people to do! And Alexa is a product for people.
Users quite often start to speak while Alexa is still speaking or just finished speaking and haven't yet turned on its mic.
There is a blue light, but sometimes users speak to Alexa when it's outside of their view site. Alexa is designed to be for eye-busy experience, and eyes might be busy while interaction.Alexa is actually listening to users all the time while it's speaking - but now it only detects a wake word. So why don't allow a full intent there?
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Clarify the idea of groups and rooms
While in a minimalist approach to the Alexa app it may be fine, there is a big confusion that I have noticed across numerous friends and family members involving the idea that groups are basically how a user can group devices with an echo as a "room" idea. I think that either better guidance within the app should be included or a slightly modified system of organizing devices should be implemented. It seems that normal users do not realize that an alexa enabled device goes into a group with other devices to control them separately.
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Add A Video Timer
I would like to fall asleep to Forensic Files but don't want it to play all night long and currently, the 'Alexa, set a sleep timer for ***' doesn't work for that. There's no way to turn the videos off after a specific amount of time except to wake up and tell Alexa to turn it off. Since this comes from Amazon Prime Video, there should be no reason that this can't be incorporated. I can set a timer for pretty much anything else, But Video! I've seen lots of requests for this. I imagine there are a lot of…
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Add the ability to include Directives in reprompt actions.
There should be a way to nest directives into reprompt actions, so that whenever a re-prompt situation occurs, instead of just plain text, a new directive can be sent to either change intents, or open the microphone for user input again or activate colors, gadgets, etc to get the user's attention.
Example:
User: Alexa open ticket purchase
Alexa: Okay. what is the name of the airport you are going to?(User thinks to themselves ... what is that airport name .. shoot I have to look online as 6 seconds pass by...)
Alexa: (reprompt) What is the airport's name?
(User…
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Make Alexa understand two languages at time. Some of us are bilingual and would like to make commands in either or both languages.
Some of us are bilingual and would like to make commands in either or both languages. Sometimes it is easier to ask a question in one language and other times on another.
2 votes
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