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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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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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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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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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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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Rest API that can send an alexa announcement
Rest API that can send an alexa announcement based on the event like lights turn on or webcam detection. This can be called from lambda. Definitely a key feature that alexa is alerting everyone or n the room that other room or area has a movement. Great feature and will add value.
let me know if this is already exist in some way or simpler way
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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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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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Support APL Directives and Dialog Directives in the same skill response
Not having this holds back multimodal skills.
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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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Setting up routines and reminders through an API
Allow development of custom app with feature compatibility with Alexa Companion App. This can be done through exposing functionality like setting up reminders, routines, address book, calling and messaging through either avs-SDK or expose server APIs.
This will be particularly useful in Alexa for Business settings.
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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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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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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:
- On the skills directory page in the Alexa App
- On the skills directory page in the amazon website
- As an option to listen to when Alexa recommends a skill
The audio clip would be uploaded / submitted during the submission…
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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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Add H.265/HEVC support
H.265 is a fairly common newer video standard
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Remove devices when disabling an alexa smart home skill
When a user disable a smart home skill the devices connected to that skill are remain visible inside the Alexa app.
The user cannot control them:
- in the app under each device the misleading error "server is unresponsive" is showed under each device.
- if controlling via voice the user receives the response: "the skill linked with X is not enabled, please enable the skill to control this device".still having the devices showed up is confusing for the user. That has to manually remove all the devices linked to the removed skill manually.
So my request is to…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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