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8 second response time is not sufficient for IoT use cases
I'm working on an IoT Industrial use case for which I need an "open" response window to communicate with the Alexa service. For a successful proof-of-concept, a user needs to remain focused on the task at hand, while Alexa responds to voice cues in the background to drive IoT devices. The 8-second user response limit is unusable in this scenario.
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Allow phonetic markup in invocation names
When you want to use your employer's brand name as your invocation name, that name is often not a normal English word. This means that the Alexa voice service often can't understand it and the skill can't be triggered.
A workaround is to write a nonsense word that the Alexa voice service can parse as something that sounds like the brand name, but this is not guaranteed to work.
It would be incredibly useful if the invocation name could contain phonetic markup like responses can.
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Add the ability to extend Beta skill test beyond 90 days
It would be wonderful to be able to either set a custom duration for a Beta test of a skill, or to be able to renew a Beta skill test pool without all the users having to click through a new link or email.
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Restart Alexa voice after tapping the Echo Show screen
When a Skill is running on an Echo Show device with a longer text, I want to tap on it to scroll down. When I do this, the Alexa voice stops and the Skill is closed after around 8 to 10 seconds. I also get send to the intro screen.
I would suggest a solution to just pause Alexas voice on the first tap and start it again on the second tap. This will be a much higher user experience.
19 votesThanks a lot for posting this request. Your request has been received.
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Allow skills to change volume on device
Enable a skill to adjust the volume
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Add "fast forward" and "rewind" to the skill that plays podcasts
If you begin a podcast on one device, then stop it there, move to a different device, it would be really great if you had the ability to resume exactly where you left off, as well as being able to fast forward or rewind in the podcast.
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Make SSML test tool available outside of developer console
Right now, in the test tab for a given skill in the developer console, there's an option to provide some SSML text and hear how Alexa would convert that to speech. This utility uses no contextual information about the skill itself, and there's really no reason at all that it needs to be stuck behind a login gate, other than for the purpose of possibly thwarting abuse of said functionality.
As a developer, I would like the ability to provide this same functionality to my users on a public website I run or to my collaborators in a private tool…
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Dismiss an upcoming recurring alarm without removing the whole series
User should be able to dismiss an upcoming recurring alarm without removing the whole series.
E.g. I have an alarm set at 9:00 am everyday. I wake up at 8:40 am in a particular day. The only way to prevent it from ringing at 9 am is to completely disable the series through the application, and then enable it again after 9 am, or remove the series completely by voice and then set up the series again after 9 am.
This is a very basic feature that every single user misses.
Thanks,
Fernando
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Create widget to access alexa lists
Would like to widget on home screen to access lists
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Retrieve the PowerState info through the voice
Currently, on Smart Home Skills it is not possible to retrieve the PowerState info through the voice; the only information I noticed that can be retrieved seems to be the status for smart locks and the temperature/setpoint for thermostats...
The power state probably represents one of the most used interfaces for smart devices, and its status retrieval would be very useful for the user: in my opinion it's very limiting to interact by using the voice with a device without knowing if it is powered on or off.17 votes -
Allow STOP to be issued to AudioPlayer in addition to PAUSE
"STOP" and "PAUSE" have two very distinct meanings:
"STOP": cause (an action, process, or event) to come to an end.
"PAUSE": a temporary stop in action or speech.
Different words, different meanings.Unfortunately, AudioPlayer confuses the two, and even the documentation warns that
"when your skill is not in an active session but is playing audio, or was the skill most recently playing audio, utterances such as 'stop' send your skill an AMAZON.PauseIntent instead of an AMAZON.StopIntent."
This creates a poor user experience, and it doesn't take long to find at least 30 questions, requests relating to this.
For example,…
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Add Command history to text input
Create a command history. It would be nice that when you hover into the input for typing messages to alexa if you hit the up arrow it will bring you your latest command, a similar feature that you can find in the mac terminal
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Support for Font Color in places where Font Size is Supported
Adding the ability to specify a font color in addition to the existing font size would be very helpful. I was developing a test skill for my company an on the prompt I used the company logo as a background image. Unfortunately the logo is on a field of white and the text was invisible since the display font is white with no option to change it. I naively assumed I could put a rich text option <font color="black"> into the text but discovered there is no such option. Just the size. Color setting would be very useful for Cards,…
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remove the oauth requirement for SMAPI
You can't use the API outside of a website with the current model. Ex: would like to run Lambda function to update a skill model and then submit for cert. You can't authenticate to use the API in this context.
17 votesThanks a lot for submitting this request. Your request has been received.
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Alexa auto Invoke to read Notification
I want to create some skills that could aromatically invoke Alexa to return some notifications upon satisfying certain criterion like meeting certain conditions or at certain time period. So, I want Alexa Team to make such a feature so that developers can use it.
For example :There is a notification message which you want Alexa to automatically read out by getting automatically invoked at a certain time upon satisfying certain condition.Please, create such a feature and for any quwriqu regarding this idea please follow back.
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Increase the hard limit size of the interaction model (2MB)
When attempting to build skill, the operation fails due to the skill exceeding 2MB in size. Vote to increase hard limit for size of interaction model!
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Provide Official ASK CLI Docker Image
I was surprised to find that there is no official Docker image for development with the ASK CLI. The "amazon" user on Docker Hub contains only a couple images for working specifically with ECS and Elastic Beanstalk, and there does not appear to be any official "alexa" user. Upon further investigation, I found the aws-codebuild-docker-images repo in the "aws" GitHub organization, but unfortunately it does not have any sample Dockerfiles that install the ASK CLI either. There are similar issues open at the AWS CLI repo, because there is no official Amazon Docker image for the AWS CLI either, so…
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Alexa app cards in the console
When the Echo Show display option is unchecked, you should integrate Alexa app cards if developers send it. Even if you don't want to display cards, you should at least treat the console as a non-screen device allowing devs to see cards property in the output JSON when echo screen is disabled
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Provide programmatic access to device wake word
Allow skill builders to reference the wake word for a device when sending responses back from a skill.
This would allow skill builders the ability to include precise instructions for how to use the skill or Alexa 1p functionality to their customers.
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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 CurtainIt will be very useful if Smart Home team implement this feature specially for Hotel Automation and also smart home automation.
15 votes
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