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1. Smart Home Skill Api For Curtains/Drapes

   Hi Team,

   Currently In Alexa Smart Home Skill there is no Api to control Drapes/Curtains.
   For Example:
   Alexa,open Living Room Curtain
   Alexa,close Living Room Curtain

   It will be very useful if Smart Home team implement this feature specially for Hotel Automation and also smart home automation.

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2. Video Skill function playVideo() should accept a position in milliseconds to start video at

   Hi, while playVideo() works fine for video playback on an Amazon Echo Show, there's no way to start at a certain position. Optionally accepting a position in milliseconds would solve this. Use cases for this are resuming playback or jumping to a certain known position of a video e.g. the start of the next topic in the news. Thanks, Jan

   PS: I didn't find any seek functionality to emulate this and having a seekVideo() function with a position in milliseconds might be an additional or alternative way to implement this.

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3. Notification on new store reviews

   There have been times when users have reported issues with skills via store reviews. It would be handy if we could get email notifications when new reviews are piblished against our skills in the store

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4. automatic skill endpoint switching when the development skill goes live

   Add automatic skill endpoint switching when the development skill goes live.

   It will be great to have the possibility to make Live version work with lambda.arn:PROD and Development with lambda.arn:$LATEST aliases. Every time when I want to update my skill I need to do back and forth switching.

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5. Need Alexa to provide a USERID back to skill.

   Once a Voice Profile is completed, a Skill should know WHO initiated the skill and give that data back to the skill so reports can now dilineate WHO initiated the skill...

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6. Beta Testing retain testers' email

   It would be great if the new console's beta testing retained tester emails when beta testing ended, just like the old console's beta testing page.

   For example in the old view, when a skill ended either manually or automatically and I tried started it up, previous tester email addresses would prepopulate.

   It would be great if we can have this feature within the new console's beta testing page because it made it easier to relaunch without having to find who the old testers were and copying and pasting them in.

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7. Allow financial personal information in Europe

   As possible in the US from years (see Capital One skill), but also in the UK (Starling Bank), in India (United Bank of India) and in the UAE (Emirates NBD), we'd like Alexa skills to be allowed to access or provide access to personal financial information also in Europe.

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8. Configure relative mix volumes for multi-room music

   Problem:

   When two or more echos are joined into a multi-room music setting the volume affects all devices. But I prefer to set the bedroom device to be 2, the kitchen to be 5, and the one connected to the stereo via the cable to be 10. When music is playing on this multi-room group and the volume is changed, all devices receive the same volume, e.g. volume 5, which disrupts the relative devices volume levels I prefer. The bedroom is way too loud, the stereo too quiet, and overall is frustrating.

   Proposed solution:

   Create a relative mix volume associated with each device in a multi-room group. I would like to choose the relative volume level of each echo(device) in the group via the Alexa app when I set up the group. Voice commands to change the volume (while playing on a multi-room group) would affect the global volume of the music playing, but each device in that group would instead receive an effective volume proportional to that device's relative mix volume. This would preserve the relative volumes of the devices in the group while still allowing a global increase/decrease in volume of the group as a whole.

   UI Changes:

   This could manifest itself in the UI of the Alexa app as a relative volume level slider on each device in the multi-room group. This would likely be infrequently edited (set it and forget it), so the voice command skill to alter volume would remain unchanged and continue to set the group's global volume level. The device mix could be defaulted to 100% for all devices to retain current normal functionality. The volume level on each devices led display should reflect the global volume level of the group, not that devices relative mix volume, this would provide consistent feedback to the user regardless of which device they are currently using.

   Skill Changes:

   None - Issuing volume commands to any echo participating in that group while actively playing music would control the global group's volume (but not disrupt the relative volume mix of the group). Editing the relative volume level of each device would only be available via the Alexa App, so no changes would need to be necessary to the volume skill.

   Beneficial Effects

   Users could create several different multi-room groups specifically for the purpose of using a preconfigured mix, such as Party, Ambiance, Movie, or Mom/Dad.

   Additionally, the ability to adjust each device's individual mix volume enables the ability to adjust the sonic "center" of a room with 3+ devices.

   This single feature may provide incentives to increase the number of echo devices per household.

   Thank you for considering this amazing feature!

   Problem:

   When two or more echos are joined into a multi-room music setting the volume affects all devices. But I prefer to set the bedroom device to be 2, the kitchen to be 5, and the one connected to the stereo via the cable to be 10. When music is playing on this multi-room group and the volume is changed, all devices receive the same volume, e.g. volume 5, which disrupts the relative devices volume levels I prefer. The bedroom is way too loud, the stereo too quiet, and overall is frustrating.

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   Create a relative mix volume associated… more

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9. Developer Page/Profile in Alexa Skill Store

   It would be great to have a "Developer page" in the skill store, like a profile that lists all skills that this developer has published.

   I.e. make the name of the developer clickable in the skill store and show all skills that this person/company has published.

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10. Support APL Directives and Dialog Directives in the same skill response

    Not having this holds back multimodal skills.

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11. Play reminders and alarms on all devices or grouped devices/control which reminders and alarms play on which devices

    A reminder is of little help if it plays in the kitchen when I'm in the bedroom. My 84 year old Dad needs reminders for many things but found that buying multiple devices does not allow those reminders to playback from all devices. Need a way to set reminders, alarms and even timers to play from all devices or ideally a matrix can be setup to choose which reminders play from which devices.

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12. Flash Briefing: add video support

    I have some Flash Briefings for local news. The news providers are creating video, and then ripping the audio out for the Flash Briefing version. It would be great to be able to use the video in the Echo Show.

    Bonus points for using the video asset for the audio / non-video Echo devices.

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13. Slot type "number" with leading zero

    Need a "number" that supports leading zero's. So when a user enters "012" it reads back "zero one two". The current number type reads back "twelve".

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14. 30 second audio / video preview of skill

    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.

    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… more

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15. Support SVG Images in APL Templates

    The APL Image component currently only supports JPEG and PNG images. I propose adding support for vector graphics (SVG) which allow displaying of images using (in some cases) less bandwidth and better scaling for different display sizes.

    Currently, SVGs so not render on the device at all, but are shown as expected in the simulator.

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16. Capture if AM/PM was specified in AMAZON.Time slot

    I make use of AMAZON.Time slot in my skill. I received feedback from the certification team that I should confirm if a user meant AM or PM when specifying a twelve-hour time. There is one edge case that poses an annoying problem with this feedback.

    Since all times are parsed as 24-hour format by the AMAZON.Time slot type, I have no way to know whether a user said, for example "five" or "five a.m." because both get parsed as "05:00". In other words, I lose information about whether the user already explicitly said "five a.m." or if they just said "five" when I attempt to confirm what they meant. So to be safe, I always have Alexa ask the user "did you mean five a.m. or p.m.?". It's only the AM case that causes the problem, because I know the user must have said "seven p.m." or "seventeen hundred" if I get "17:00" back for the slot value.

    Can you please modify the way twelve hour time slots are parsed so it is clear if a user already specified "a.m." or not in their voice input for a twelve hour time?

    I make use of AMAZON.Time slot in my skill. I received feedback from the certification team that I should confirm if a user meant AM or PM when specifying a twelve-hour time. There is one edge case that poses an annoying problem with this feedback.

    Since all times are parsed as 24-hour format by the AMAZON.Time slot type, I have no way to know whether a user said, for example "five" or "five a.m." because both get parsed as "05:00". In other words, I lose information about whether the user already explicitly said "five a.m." or if they just said… more

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17. Stateful interaction model

    Imagine a situation. I have a simple game, which uses states. One state is initial, another one is game state and the last one is the end game state.

    I have x amount of intents which are: launch, answer, pass a question, players amount, stop, yes and no intents. I know that these are not all of the required intents, but I want to keep this example short.

    Lets say player launches the game. At this state I want user to say how many players he wants to play with. But because game answer intent has a lot of answers in the slot, alexa gets confused and starts matching this intent instead of players intent, which has numbers slot. In this case I have to handle all of the intents, though they might not make sense in the given context. This does not only make coding harder, because you have to cover all of the cases, but also hurts the recognition, because alexa has to determine what was said, between all of the intents.

    What would I like is to be able to turn off certain intents at certain stages/states of the game. Lets say on launch I would like, that alexa on user input would be choosing between: stop and players intent. In game state, alexa would be choosing, between: answer intent, pass question and stop intent. And in game end state, alexa would be choosing from stop, yes and no intents.

    I think this would help the recognition, because alexa would only have to choose from intents that are used at the certain stage of the skill, instead of choosing from all of the available.

    Also it would be easier to code complex skills, because you wouldn't need to handle every intent at the every stage of the game.

    Imagine a situation. I have a simple game, which uses states. One state is initial, another one is game state and the last one is the end game state.

    I have x amount of intents which are: launch, answer, pass a question, players amount, stop, yes and no intents. I know that these are not all of the required intents, but I want to keep this example short.

    Lets say player launches the game. At this state I want user to say how many players he wants to play with. But because game answer intent has a lot of answers… more

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18. Allow skills to bind to a custom wake word.

    Allow users or to configure wake words to use a specific skill as the context.

    Probably best to use the skills installed as the wake word and have a finite list of currently active wake words.

    Alexa, ask Lyft how much a Lyft Plus from home to work
    becomes
    Lyft how much is a Lyft Plus from home to work

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19. Deleting Voice Recordings Programmatically

    I have a project coming up for someone that may include sensitive info, and I thought it would be useful to be able to run a script to delete voice clips through the CLI in order to scrub information it might have sent off without having to manually go through the app or something every time.

    Or, even better, a way through the ASK to say something like "Alexa, delete voice recordings" and have it delete the recordings in some way.

    I had originally asked about this in the dev forum and it was suggested that I suggest it here. I think it would be very useful for companies that would like to move to using VUI with Alexa but don't want any kind of sensitive information (like health info, for instance) to be leaked.

    Even if this request is parsed as "Have a setting where you don't save recordings when speaking to Alexa", though I figured the voice clips are recorded for a reason, so deleting the recordings programmatically would be super helpful in this case.

    I have a project coming up for someone that may include sensitive info, and I thought it would be useful to be able to run a script to delete voice clips through the CLI in order to scrub information it might have sent off without having to manually go through the app or something every time.

    Or, even better, a way through the ASK to say something like "Alexa, delete voice recordings" and have it delete the recordings in some way.

    I had originally asked about this in the dev forum and it was suggested that I suggest it here.… more

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20. Function of volume leveling

    I have created skill introduces steps to cook meals with voice.
    I have a problem. A gap between guidance in my skill and alexa’s voice are so different.

    But I can’t change volume of guidance, because they’re used in so many other platforms and they’re affected too.

    Could you provide a function to adjust volume of media in video player and audio player?

    That would be nice.Thanks!

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