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1. Be able to activate skills with routines

   Routines are currently extremely limited compared to other devices. Combining multiple commands or skill activations or being able to write code into routines would be extremely valuable for power users.

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   Hello,

   Thank you for submitting an Alexa Skills Feature Request. We are happy to inform you that the feature you have requested has launched! Please refer to the following page(s) for more information: https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/cf65c68e-f3df-475e-939d-4ea2771b20b7/tell-your-customers-they-can-now-invoke-your-skill-from-routines

2. Forcing a user to remember a skill name is counter-intuitive, bad experience and leads to low adoption rates.

   PROBLEM: Forcing a user to remember a skill name is counter-intuitive, bad experience and leads to low adoption rates.

   Examples :
   Alexa, tell Agent NEO to find my Home Value
   Alexa, tell Harmony to turn on my TV
   Alexa, ask AllRecipes for a Pasta Recipe

   Proposed Solution:
   Alexa, find my home's value (Alexa knows that the skill Agent NEO that the user has enabled, can handle this intent)
   Alexa, turn on my TV (Alexa knows that the skill Agent NEO that the user has enabled, can handle this intent)
   Alexa, find a Pasta Recipe (Alexa knows that the skill AllRecipes that the user has enabled, can handle this intent)

   All Alexa has to do to achieve this is, scan through the intent handlers of the skills the user has installed. Then simply pass the command to the correct skill. This is so much smoother than having to tell Alexa to tell a skill name to do something.

   Google home introduced this feature a few months ago and it works so seamlessly.

   PROBLEM: Forcing a user to remember a skill name is counter-intuitive, bad experience and leads to low adoption rates.

   Examples :
   Alexa, tell Agent NEO to find my Home Value
   Alexa, tell Harmony to turn on my TV
   Alexa, ask AllRecipes for a Pasta Recipe

   Proposed Solution:
   Alexa, find my home's value (Alexa knows that the skill Agent NEO that the user has enabled, can handle this intent)
   Alexa, turn on my TV (Alexa knows that the skill Agent NEO that the user has enabled, can handle this intent)
   Alexa, find a Pasta Recipe (Alexa knows that the skill AllRecipes… more

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   Thank you for submitting an Alexa Skills Feature Request. We can provide following solution at this time. Please refer to the following page:

   https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/custom-skills/understand-name-free-interaction-for-custom-skills.html

3. Allow users to invoke skill intents in routine

   Recently, the ability to launch 3rd party skills from routines was added. The implementation, however, was minimal. All the user can do is launch the skill. They cannot launch a specific intent.

   To unleash the potential of 3rd party skills in routines, users should be able to specify skill intents in the routine: "Tell skill x to y"

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   Thank you for submitting an Alexa Skills Feature Request. We are happy to inform you that the feature you have requested has public beta.Please refer to the following page(s) for more information:

   
   

   https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/custom-skills/implement-custom-tasks-in-your-skill.html

   
   

4. Control when A Skill goes Live

   When I submit a skill for certification, there is no way to know when it is going to go live. It may go Live off-hours or when I am not available.

   This causes several issues.

   1) I can't promote my skill ( Can't tell my users my skill will be available on xx/xx)

   2) I can't be available to monitor after initial deployment. (monitor logs, have support ready etc..)

   3)I don't know when to turn on any backend API's, Systems etc. (If I have version 1.0 of let's say a lambda function on arn xxxx. I have no way of knowing when to deploy version 1.5 that contains new features etc.)

   In summary, process should be as follows:
   1) Receive notification that my skill has passed certification (yayyyy) press this button to make it Live.
   2) I prepare all my backend systems, send out any communications.
   3) Everything is ready time to press the big red button. We are now live.

   When I submit a skill for certification, there is no way to know when it is going to go live. It may go Live off-hours or when I am not available.

   This causes several issues.

   1) I can't promote my skill ( Can't tell my users my skill will be available on xx/xx)

   2) I can't be available to monitor after initial deployment. (monitor logs, have support ready etc..)

   3)I don't know when to turn on any backend API's, Systems etc. (If I have version 1.0 of let's say a lambda function on arn xxxx. I have no way of… more

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   Hello,

   Thank you for submitting an Alexa Skills Feature Request. We are happy to inform you that the feature you have requested has launched! Please refer to the following pages for more information:
   https://forums.developer.amazon.com/articles/217177/self-service-alexa-skill-publishing-now-available-1.html
   https://developer.amazon.com/docs/devconsole/test-and-submit-your-skill.html#submit-the-skill
   https://developer.amazon.com/docs/devconsole/test-and-submit-your-skill.html#publish-a-skill-that-has-been-certified

5. Alexa, Turn on/off 'device' in "x" minutes

   Using timer trigger for this will help. Currently, you can only achieve this by defining a specific time.

   This is especially useful for devices that would normally be set to the default position of "on" and I don't want to forget that I temporarily turned it off.

   Alternatively, you could give us the ability "if off, turn on in 'x' minutes".

   Also useful because default position in most switches is 'off' after power outage. Right now, I'm running a 'turn on' once per hour in case of power failure.

   I'd really like to get it down to 10 minutes but that's simply too much manual config with no easy copy/paste.

   Using timer trigger for this will help. Currently, you can only achieve this by defining a specific time.

   This is especially useful for devices that would normally be set to the default position of "on" and I don't want to forget that I temporarily turned it off.

   Alternatively, you could give us the ability "if off, turn on in 'x' minutes".

   Also useful because default position in most switches is 'off' after power outage. Right now, I'm running a 'turn on' once per hour in case of power failure.

   I'd really like to get it down to 10 minutes but… more

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   Thank you for submitting an Alexa Skills Feature Request. We are happy to inform you that the feature you have requested has launched! 

6. Open Skills by an Alarm

   This feature would be similar to playing music with an Alarm but it would open a skill.

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   Thank you for submitting an Alexa Skills Feature Request. We are  happy to inform you that the feature you have requested has launched!  

7. Allow development skills to be used in routines.

   Allow development skills to be used in routines. If we develop a skill, and haven't published it yet, but it is enable and active on our devices then we should be able to use it within a routine (obviously on our own devices).

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   Thank you for submitting an Alexa Skills Feature Request. We are happy to inform you that the feature you have requested has launched! You can add the development version of a skill as the "action" for a routine. For more information, please refer to the document here:
   https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=G2PYLKJN3XVZ55EQ

   If you have further questions regarding routines, they would be best directed to our customer support team. They're available via e-mail, phone or live chat and their contact details can be found here:
   https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/contact-us

8. Provide device timezone in Alexa requests

   I have created a skill that manages daily routines. When invoked, the skill needs to calculate If a user completed a task on the same day.

   As of now, I'm guessing the timezone by the locale, but this is far from exact.

   Asking for the postal code permission is a deal breaker.

   I'm sure there are a lot of other skills that also would benefit from knowing the timezone.

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   We are happy to inform you that the feature you have requested has launched! Please refer to the following page(s) for more information:

   https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/c2ba44fa-4bd8-4b49-925d-29dbc0330b1e/personalize-your-alexa-skill-with-customer-specific-time-zones-and-measurements-using-the-alexa-settings-api

9. Written commands in routines

   Add ability to add a written command to a routine that would act as if the user spoke a voice command.

   E.g.
   Routine scheduled at 7:00 AM:
   - turn on Light
   - tell you something new
   (New): - perform “Alexa, what is the weather in Boston?”
   (New): - perform “Alexa, open Headspace”
   (New): - perform “Alexa, connect bluetooth”

   This would enable skills in routines while leveraging the existing abilities of the Echo, just by allowing written commands to be interpreted as voice commands on a schedule. This should be fairly simple to implement with what it is already is capable of, but would immediately and hugely expand the usefulness and value of the device.

   Add ability to add a written command to a routine that would act as if the user spoke a voice command.

   E.g.
   Routine scheduled at 7:00 AM:
   - turn on Light
   - tell you something new
   (New): - perform “Alexa, what is the weather in Boston?”
   (New): - perform “Alexa, open Headspace”
   (New): - perform “Alexa, connect bluetooth”

   This would enable skills in routines while leveraging the existing abilities of the Echo, just by allowing written commands to be interpreted as voice commands on a schedule. This should be fairly simple to implement with what it is already is capable… more

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   Thank you for submitting an Alexa Skills Feature Request. We are happy to inform you that the feature you have requested has launched! Please refer to the following page(s) for more information:

   
   

   https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=GLXY7RFX3L5GH2VR

10. Rich Content Cards for Users

    When I need to present something to my user that requires a more complex interaction with the user. In my usecase it's playlist generation where voice interaction would not be simple and I would need to direct user to a web environment. I can pass a card with a URL that is easy for the user to type in but it would be better if the URL was clickable.

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    Thank you for submitting an Alexa Skills Feature Request. We are happy to inform you that the feature you have requested has launched! Please refer to the following page(s) for more information:

    
    

    https://developer.amazon.com/en-GB/docs/alexa/alexa-presentation-language/apl-standard-commands.html#open_url_command

11. Allow render template directives during dialog directives

    Currently, if a dialog is mid progress, it overrides any displays that we may want to show relating to the dialog. Would greatly enhance user experience on multi-modal skills.

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    Thank you for submitting an Alexa Skills Feature Request. We are  happy to inform you that the feature you have requested has launched!  Please refer to the following page(s) for more information:

    https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/conversations/tutorial-annotate-a-dialog.html

12. The possibility to add background music with the help of SSML

    See this example
    https://gist.github.com/silvolu/63074e8fac76c615746f534f59f28e5f#file-media-example2-xml

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    Thank you for submitting an Alexa Skills Feature Request. We are happy to inform you that the feature you have requested has launched! Please refer to the following page(s) for more information:

    https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/blogs/alexa/alexa-skills-kit/2020/07/apl-for-audio.html

13. API for custom skill / flash briefing usage statistics

    Currently, it’s impossible to get any data about the flash briefings usage at all. It’s crucial to know at least number of unique listeners and number of plays during some period of time.

    For the custom skills we are able to count the requests and sessions ourselves, since we host the backend for a skill, but still, there are a lot of tricky points, for example we are not able to distinguish requests from the certification team, so we count them as usual requests from Alexa users.

    I think that's a super basic functionality that really breaks the experience for 3rd party tools users.

    Please consider, thanks.

    Currently, it’s impossible to get any data about the flash briefings usage at all. It’s crucial to know at least number of unique listeners and number of plays during some period of time.

    For the custom skills we are able to count the requests and sessions ourselves, since we host the backend for a skill, but still, there are a lot of tricky points, for example we are not able to distinguish requests from the certification team, so we count them as usual requests from Alexa users.

    I think that's a super basic functionality that really breaks the experience for… more

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    Hello,

    Thank you for submitting an Alexa Skills Feature Request. We are happy to inform you that the feature you have requested has launched! Please refer to the following pages for more information:
    https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/a5b37f34-83c8-4274-b576-073a21dfdb7a/build-test-and-tune-your-skills-with-three-new-tools1

    https://developer.amazon.com/docs/smapi/metrics-api.html

14. add a phone call feature in customized skill

    customized skills for business can allow customers to directly contact phone numbers within the skill.

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    Thank you for submitting an Alexa Skills Feature Request. We are happy to inform you that the feature you have requested has launched! Please refer to the following page for more information: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/business-productivity/enable-skill-calling-through-alexa-devices-with-new-features-in-the-amazon-chime-sdk/

15. Bring AMAZON.FallbackIntent to other languages

    The recently introduced AMAZON.FallbackIntent, which allows utterances which do not match any of the utterances associated with other intents to be picked up by a skill, is extremely useful. However, this can only be used in English (US) skills and not any any other languages, such as English (UK). This makes development harder than it should be and discourages developers from creating their skills in multiple languages.

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    Hi there,
    FallbackIntent has been published now on other locales as well.
    Please check our blog post for more details.

    https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/blogs/alexa/alexa-skills-kit/2019/11/handle-unexpected-user-requests-with-FallbackIntent-phonenumber-ordinal-built-in-slots-expanded

    Thanks

16. Dynamic Slot Values

    I have a skill that looks up property management information for apartment buildings. We have over 150 properties which are defined as values for a slot. 4 digit property numbers for values and string property names as synonyms.

    I would like to be able to query a database for the slot values and synonyms dynamically at runtime.

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    Thank you for submitting an Alexa Skills Feature Request. We are happy to inform you that the feature you have requested has launched!

    You can read more on our blog: https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/db4c0ed5-5a05-4037-a3a7-3fe5c29dcb65/use-dynamic-entities-to-create-personalized-voice-experiences

    Developer documentation can be found here: https://developer.amazon.com/docs/custom-skills/use-dynamic-entities-for-customized-interactions.html

17. Allow skill to anticipate/disallow specific intents during conversation

    I would like my skill to be able to listen for specific responses, i.e. make Alexa bias towards utterances of one or multiple intents that I specify in the skill's response, for the next user input.

    For example, let's say my skill has a CityIntent which has utterances:

    • I live in {city}
    • It is {city}
    • {city}

    And my skill has another MovieIntent which has utterances:

    • I like {movieType}
    • I prefer {movieType}
    • {movieType}

    And at certain times my skill may also expect {yes/no} answer from user.

    Since {city} and {movieType} have different value, Alexa usually does a good job of figuring out which intent should be mapped.

    However, sometime the single word utterances are incorrectly mapped to wrong intents, and there's very little or hacky way for my skill can cope with such cases.

    Therefore I want my skill to have the ability to specify what the NEXT intention user is likely to make, at any point during conversation. Then Alexa can bias the listening towards the likely utterances and map to the correct intents.

    I have looked into DialogModel, however it doesn't seem to be applicable because it doesn't allow switching intent, i.e. my code cannot be handling MovieIntent and then request Alexa to ElicitSlot for CityIntent.

    Thanks!

    I would like my skill to be able to listen for specific responses, i.e. make Alexa bias towards utterances of one or multiple intents that I specify in the skill's response, for the next user input.

    For example, let's say my skill has a CityIntent which has utterances:

    • I live in {city}
    • It is {city}
    • {city}

    And my skill has another MovieIntent which has utterances:

    • I like {movieType}
    • I prefer {movieType}
    • {movieType}

    And at certain times my skill may also expect {yes/no} answer from user.

    Since {city} and {movieType} have different value, Alexa usually does a good job of figuring… more

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    Thank you for submitting an Alexa Skills Feature Request. We are  happy to inform you that the feature you have requested has launched!  Please refer to the following page(s) for more information:

    https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/blogs/alexa/alexa-skills-kit/2019/03/intent-chaining-for-alexa-skill

18. Ability to get a link to the skill in Amazon Store

    Right now it’s impossible to get the link to the skill in the Skills Store. After the skill is published, you need to go to the store and search for it manually.

    It would be great to have an ability to fetch this link via SMAPI. Here is an example of the link I’m talking about: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077CW6TH8/.

    As I can see, the main part of this link is the product ID, so at least having a product ID in skill manifest in SMAPI would be insanely helpful.

    Thanks.

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    Thank you for the suggestion. It is now possible to get the ASIN via SMAPI. For background, the ASIN (Amazon Standard Identification Number) is the unique product identifier.

    Full details can be found here: https://developer.amazon.com/docs/smapi/skill-operations.html#list-skills

19. Event-based system notifying about skill publishing status (dev, live, cert) update

    Right now if I want to get a publishing status of a skill (live, dev, certification), I need to manually go to the SMAPI and ask for that. If you have 3 or 4 thousands of skills that you want to keep up to date, it’s about 5 thousands of requests to SMAPI every half an hour or even more often.

    So, to reduce the number of requests and waiting time for users drastically, it’s crucial to have some kind of an event system to be notified when the skill has changed its status from dev to certification or from certification to live for example.

    Please consider, thanks.

    Right now if I want to get a publishing status of a skill (live, dev, certification), I need to manually go to the SMAPI and ask for that. If you have 3 or 4 thousands of skills that you want to keep up to date, it’s about 5 thousands of requests to SMAPI every half an hour or even more often.

    So, to reduce the number of requests and waiting time for users drastically, it’s crucial to have some kind of an event system to be notified when the skill has changed its status from dev to certification or from… more

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    Thank you for submitting an Alexa Skills Feature Request. We are happy to inform you that the feature you have requested has launched! Please refer to the following page(s) for more information: https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/sdns/use-skill-development-notifications.html

20. The ability to set an alarm in one room to go off in another room.

    Set an alarm on Echo in one room, say the kitchen to go off in another room like the bedroom.

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    Thank you for submitting an Alexa Skills Feature Request. We are  happy to inform you that the feature you have requested has launched!