Have Alexa pause when user needs time to think about a response/answer.

User can say: "wait" or "pause" or "one sec"
System will flash orange ring until user says: "OK"

Conversation flow resumes.

Expanding the current implementation of Push would unlock a massive developer opportunity. Please allow devs to build and users to select skills that can speak without the user initiating the conversation. If a skill gets annoying they can turn it off.

Ability to transfer a skill from my account to a client's account.

Currently, Suppressed or inactive skills remain in developer accounts and create Clutter.

Allow for Developers to manage and maintain their developer accounts for organization and clarity.

Additionally a suppressed skill in a developer account still shows as "LIVE" which is in accurate this should be adjusted immediately.

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.

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.

Say I've got an Alexa device in my guest room. It would be great if there was a kind of "guest mode" which I could use to apply certain (customizable) restrictions to features like:

• Skill invocation
• Smart Home
• Playing music
• Shopping​​

I want skill to be able to speak wake word, from device settings word.

Use case is skill help message.

Implement with SSML.
exsample...
New ssml tag is 'amazon:wakeword'
<speak>To stop skill, please say <amazon:wakeword name='device'/> Stop.</speak>

Allow the adding of some kind of "anti-trigger" that will stop Alexa waking itself when the invocation word is mentioned in a podcast, or SSML audio. And/or, allow a flag that will reduce sensitivity to the wake-word during a particular piece of audio, using the mic array to detect whether the wake word was generated internally or externally.

I know that there is an unofficial theory that self-invocation can be lessened by boosting / cutting certain frequencies around the actual wake-word, but this isn't always practical where third-party audio is involved.

When you request Alexa to sing a song she will but there are no SSML tags to allow developers to request this using code

Have multiple invocation name for a single skill

I would like to have an option to add custom information on the Echo Show or Spot home screen.

For example, i developed a Webcam Skill and i want my Echo Show/Spot to show it without asking for.

Automatic Skill Activation

This is really a must for Alexa to have scheduled skill invocation without voice command ... please make it happen!

I'd very much like my son (11 yrs) to be able to communicate w/Alexa.
He's not an Eng as a mother tongue (native) speaker, as am I ;-)
Regrettably, his command of the English lang is as a 3-4 yrs.
I'd like that Alexa would:
1) Speak A Lot (!) Slower?
2) Reply A Lot (!) more accessible ("lower" English "level")?

Looking for a native way to send commands to my Windows PC so I can control my PC via Echo Dot. I asked the question on forum initially: https://forums.developer.amazon.com/questions/198845/my-windows-computer-to-act-as-alexa-gadget.html

The first use case for the annoying issue would be to mute PC music (speakers) when Alexa wakes up...this way I can command her (else she hears other audio and doesn't understand).

Other nice feature would be to turn on/off my monitors, control volume, start programs,...

Lets let Alexa for Business users assign a single skill which can be invoked via Echo button.

These use cases are:

* Retail for product display information
* Museum Exhibits
* Information Kiosks
* Logistical scenarios where the Alexa device cannot be in physical contact with the end user.
* Especially critical for high noise environments such as where many people are already speaking ie, inside a visitor center location.

The device id already is distinguished inside the setup of AFB and skills can selectively supply information *as appropriate

On March 2nd there was a system-wide Alexa outage, taking down the ability to use the voice assistant, as well as the ability to use the developer console.

For many of us in the development community, this appeared at first to be an issue with our skills, so we ended up getting spun up in troubleshooting mode.

As a developer, I would like the ability to check the overall health of the Alexa components that I am dependent upon.

AWS does a great job of this exact thing, and could serve as a model: https://status.aws.amazon.com/