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Make Alexa check for intents *inside* the skill before searching for a native/keyword function
It's increasingly common and frustrating to have Alexa ignore intents provided by the skill and instead pivot to a native function / keyword function.
For example, in a cooking skill I've included various intents for calling up the list of recipes offered by the skill. But as soon as Alexa hears the word "recipe", she quits the skill and says, "Sure. I can search by dish name and ingredients. What would you like?"
Alexa obviously did not check my list of intents, because if she did she would've read the list of recipes in my skill to the user.
The…
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Send raw query with request
Currently all skills must run through Amazon’s Natural Language Understanding and provide a language model to Alexa. While this is helpful for getting started, many more advanced features for Language Processing and response building benefit heavily from having the user’s speech accessible to perform more complex operations like sentiment analysis, conversation reconstruction or custom natural language processing through models on other services. This allows developers to deliver a richer experience to users through the additional processing it makes possible.
For my use case in specifically it would be acceptable to have an option in the console to disable the language…42 votesThanks for the clarification and suggestion! We’ll route this to the appropriate internal team for review.
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Allow Changing Endpoints for a Live Skill
Allow the Endpoints to be changed for a Live skill WITHOUT submitting for re-certification.
In the new Developer Console for a Live (already published) skill, you can see the endpoint ARNs in textboxes which would indicate that they are editable, but the Save Endpoints button is disabled.
The following scenarios outline why the endpoints should be editable. The timing and reasons for changing the endpoints shows that they should be done without triggering a re-certification.
Scenario 1
The skill's lambda function is hosted in a region that goes down. With a quick change of the ARNs, your skill will be…41 votes -
Other e-mails for skill certification.
Allow developers to add multiple email addresses in the Dev consul under the certification tab to receive feedback pertaining to the skill. In addition place the feedback in the certification tab instead of just having a general message that is of no value to the developer.
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Add Flag to PlayVideo() that tells the Video Player to Return to the Skill when Video Ends
Currently when a video play is initiated by a Video Skill, the video play takes full control of the session and the user has to manually initiate a return to the Skill. PlayVideo() should have a flag that tells the Alexa video player to return immediately to the Skill when video playback ends or is stopped by the user.
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Access the web browser in my Echo Show skill?
I would like to start a bookmarked video or web application by voice in my skill.
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allow access skills from another region/language
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…
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Add support for GIF and Video as background for Display Interface and Templates
Developers should be able to use GIFs and Videos for the background of their Display Interfaces and Templates including for Echo Spot and Echo Show.
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Phonic Recognition
This feature request comes off the back of https://forums.developer.amazon.com/questions/200304/phonic-recognition.html
The most recognised and adopted method of teaching kids and grownups to learn english is by using phonics.
Could Alexa also recognise phonics as well as words? This would allow a whole new type of interactive skill that could teach children to read by getting them to practice phonics.
Reference from the UK government for teaching kids to read with sounds:
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Add queue for Echo Show VideoApp
The VideoApp for the Echo Show only supports to play one video. Once this video is started the current skill looses control. Please add a queue to the VideoApp like the AudioPlayer already supports.
35 votesThanks a lot for posting this request. Your request has been received
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Get the probability for a slot
Get the probability a slot was selected.
This would help an experienced developer implement a dialog to confirm with the user or to execute indent directly.
35 votesThanks a lot for submitting this request. Your request has been received.
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Enable developer access to the Show/Spot/Look Camera
Enable developer access to the Show/Spot/Look camera for both taking a picture or capturing video - bonus: easy integration with AWS Rekognition in ASK would be ideal.
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alexa.amazon.com media controls for Amazon device
When using Alexa device to play, for example Spotify, the media controls (pause/play/next/volume) appear on the alexa.amazon.com web site. This happens with a small number of Skills (e.g. Spotify, Amazon Music and TuneIn).
How about opening this up to all media-playing skills?31 votes -
Proactive Notification template for new content (podcast, blog post, sermon, talk, seminar) available from skill
Need to be able to notify users that new content has just been made available. Might fit into the Media Content template, but instead of notifying about upcoming content, this would be a notification that the content has just posted and is now available. This Notification would be helpful for listeners of blogs and podcasts and seminars and sermons, etc.
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Add S3 to ask-cli
A public S3 bucket is used to host skill icons, audio files, images, and videos for Alexa skills. This feature adds a new deploy target to the ASK CLI.
Configuration for the bucket name and region would be stored in '.ask/config'
$ deploy --target s3The would sync all files and folders in a known local folder to the bucket at: https://s3.amazonaws.com/my-bucket/
The first time this is done, the bucket will be created and a CORS configuration applied.
Calling 'ask deploy' will also sync local folders and files to S3. Because the skill icon can be hosted in the S3…
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API for Alexa Voice Profiles
The Alexa Voice Profiles feature released recently is a great and awesome feature to have. Can you please have API for Alexa Voice Profiles so that we can use it in our Skills to perform a certain action based on the voice of the user and also customize response per user.
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Allow changing of invocation name
Please allow changing/modification of invocation names.
Having to resubmit a new skill and losing the old users is not really acceptable. We should be allowed to be able to change/tweak the invocation name for various reasons:
- Invocation name is not responding correctly (despite successful testing).
- Change of company/business name
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Ability to Mirror Alexa Screen on connected devices
It will be great if we get the capability to mirror / extend / cast the content (video and/or Text) shown on an Alexa Spot or Show screen onto a connected (bigger) screen.
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Session timeout - tell me earlier
If my session has timed out, please let me know sooner rather than later. Right now, I'm able to keep adding intents, utterances, slot types, etc. but as soon as I click "Save Model" , I lose those changes because I have to refresh/log back in.
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Developer SDK for Automatic Scrolling and Highlighted Text (Display Interface)
On Echo Spot or Echo Show, when there are multiple cards or items in a list, for example, Alexa keeps on going while the card stays at number one. When the user tries to slide, Alexa stops speaking.
Developers should be able to make the cards automatically move and be highlighted just like they are in the AllRecipes skill.
27 votes
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