Alexa Skills - Developer Voice And Vote
Welcome to the Alexa Skills Feature Request site! This site enables Alexa Skills Developers to request and vote on features you’d like to see in the developer toolset and services for Alexa.
To keep this site purpose-driven and actionable, we moderate requests. Here’s some guidance on how to create great feature requests that can be evaluated by our development teams. For conversation, dialogue or help, you should visit our Alexa forums. We appreciate your input.
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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?29 votes -
Enable users to name routines that they create.
Currently, a routine created in the Alexa app is identified only by the time that the event is occur. It would help to be able to name the routine so that the user can tell what the routine does.
29 votes -
When will be able russian language?
When will be able russian language?
29 votes -
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…
28 votes -
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 -
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.
27 votes -
Add DynamoDB to ask-cli
The Alexa Skills Kit for Node.js includes support for creating a DynomoDB table to hold attribute values across sessions. To create the table dynamically, the Lambda function is typically given DynamoDBFullAccess permissions.
This feature is to remove the table creation code from ASK SDK Node and move it to the ASK CLI as part of the deploy command. This will allow the lambda function to have reduced permissions to insert rows, read, write, and delete.
Configuration for the table name and region would be stored in '.ask/config'
The command would be:
$ deploy --target dynamoDBThis would create the table…
27 votes -
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…
26 votes -
Locally control ZigBee devices connected to my Echo Plus Hub
All my home automation devices use the Z-Wave radio protocol (sockets, lights, shutters, sirens, etc ...) and only one uses the ZigBee protocol: the Philips Hue lamp purchased with my Echo Plus.
I also have other connected objects (Netatmo weather, Netatmo security, Foscam camera, GreenIQ, Harmony Elite) each with their own communication mode.
Mostly all these devices have a set of APIs and, thus, I can manage all these objects from my home automation box Fibaro.ALL EXCEPT my Philips Hue bulb which is managed ONLY FROM my Echo Plus.
So here's the improvement I'm asking for: be able to…
26 votes -
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.
26 votes -
Ability to fetch analytics data from SMAPI
Right now if you're building something on top of SMAPI you're not able to understand is your flash briefing popular or not without going to the UI.
26 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.
25 votes -
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.
25 votes -
Music Fade and/or Finish Song in Sleep Timer
It would be nice to have the music fade to off when you set a sleep time for music play. Having a song abruptly stop causes me to wake up.
Another nice option would be to have the song finish---even if it goes over the time. "Alexa, stop playing music in 10 minutes.." She will finish what ever song is playing at 10 min.
24 votes -
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.
24 votes -
Ability to add Skill instruction in routines
When building routines, would be good to have an option to add a skill instruction and choose to run it as part of a routine.
23 votes -
Allow hiding sensitive information in Alexa App History
Allow hiding sensitive information such as PIN codes in the Alexa App history. Capital One is doing this in their skill. Please enable other developers to do this.
23 votes -
Remove/Delete Suppressed skills in Developer 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.
23 votes -
Alexa Routines to have a "Post HTTP" option for simple automation.
Simple voice control of DIY devices could be achieved if the Routines section of the Alexa App had an option to do an HTTP POST.
eg/ I have a home-made lamp (based on an ESP8266) which I currently control using a custom skill that drops the JSON payload to a Linux server which interprets it then does a HTTP POST to the lamp's URL with the required mode as a parameter. ("mode=candles"/"mode=off"/"mode=purple"...etc)
I could (and other hobbiests and educators could) much more easily have implemented this with an Alexa Routine identified by "make it candle time" with a line in…
22 votes -
Connect To Bluetooth Device In Routine
It would be great if we could connect to a bluetooth device as part of the routine. I.E Connect to bluetooth speaker in another room as part of the "good morning" routune.
- Alexa Good Morning
- Flash Breifing
- Connect to BlueTooth Speaker in bathroom
- Play BBC Radio 1 (will then play through the bluetooth speaker)
22 votesHello,
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