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1. Bring Multi-Room support to AudioPlayer API streaming

   Alexa Multi Room streaming does not appear to be available for third party skills that leverage the AudioPlayer API.

   Feature request is to extend support for Multi Room to the AudioPlayer interface. This could be implemented by adding a custom slot type for the multi room location and then adding an optional parameter to the Play() command to allow the destination room group to be specified.

   This has 37 likes and 19 comments as of Mar 2018 on this URL but doesn't show up on this feature forum - https://forums.developer.amazon.com/idea/101848/bring-multi-room-support-to-audioplayer-api-stream.html - so posting again.

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2. Have Alexa pause during a conversation to allow user to think

   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.

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3. Enable and allow true push capabilities

   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.

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4. Ability to change 'Developer name or company name'

   I'd like the ability to change 'Developer name or company name' under my Amazon Developer Company Profile. In the Amazon Developer portal today, this isn't possible. I know that I can write a support ticket to do this, but a permanent solution where developers can make these updates themselves would be better.

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5. Remove requirement for Invocation name when an Audio Streaming skill is playing

   Problem:

   When an audio streaming skill is actively streaming/playing, users of the skill have to re-open the skill in order to issue additional commands. This creates a very awkward user experience, for example:

   "Alexa, ask AnyPod to play This American Life"

   <This American Life starts playing>

   "Alexa, ask AnyPod to play the oldest episode"

   <oldest episode starts playing>

   "Alexa, ask AnyPod to fast forward 3 minutes"

   <episode fast forwards>

   "Alexa, ask AnyPod to <etc>"

   --

   Solution 1:

   Ideally this interaction would go like this:

   "Alexa, ask AnyPod to play This American Life"

   <This American Life starts playing>

   "AnyPod, play the oldest episode"

   Having "AnyPod" (the skill's invocation name) substitute in as an alternate wake word would be great. But of course you'll never do that in a million years, until in a few years from now when you actually do. So how about this as a compromise in the meantime:

   ---

   Solution 2:

   "Alexa, ask AnyPod to play This American Life"

   <This American Life starts playing>

   "Alexa, play the oldest episode"

   This will require some clever engineering to determine whether the user is said something that maps to a valid intent within the active audio streaming skill's invocation model - and if not, handle the request the same way they are currently handled. That seems reasonably doable.

   It does create potential problems where an audio streaming skill may have an intent that conflicts with the invocation name of another skill -ie, the user may wish to open another skill but find that the audio streaming skill "hijacked" their request because the invocation name for the other skill triggered an intent in the audio streaming skill. But, that problem is solvable a few different ways - put greater restrictions on the intents that can be accessed in this scenario, for example:
   a "catch all" intent with nothing but a custom slot could not be allowed

   any intent with words matching the invocation name of existing skills would not be allowed (they would be allowed during normal skill usage, but not in this more restricted context)

   Problem:

   When an audio streaming skill is actively streaming/playing, users of the skill have to re-open the skill in order to issue additional commands. This creates a very awkward user experience, for example:

   "Alexa, ask AnyPod to play This American Life"

   <This American Life starts playing>

   "Alexa, ask AnyPod to play the oldest episode"

   <oldest episode starts playing>

   "Alexa, ask AnyPod to fast forward 3 minutes"

   <episode fast forwards>

   "Alexa, ask AnyPod to <etc>"

   --

   Solution 1:

   Ideally this interaction would go like this:

   "Alexa, ask AnyPod to play This American Life"

   <This American Life starts playing>

   "AnyPod, play the… more

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6. User-specific flash briefing content

   The current flash briefing content (per provider) is a 'one size fits all approach'. Everyone gets the same NPR briefing, for example.

   There are many use-cases where user-specific information could be very powerful in the flash briefing, often in concert with interactive skills. Some examples:

   • A sport team skill that (in the flash briefing) reminds you of your game time this weekend (or of changes), without you ever having to touch a calendar

   • A retailer skill that (in a flash briefing) advises of significant deals, relevant to your buying history or explicit 'watch list'.

   I think this would take flash briefing content 'to the next level'.
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   The current flash briefing content (per provider) is a 'one size fits all approach'. Everyone gets the same NPR briefing, for example.

   There are many use-cases where user-specific information could be very powerful in the flash briefing, often in concert with interactive skills. Some examples:

   • A sport team skill that (in the flash briefing) reminds you of your game time this weekend (or of changes), without you ever having to touch a calendar

   • A retailer skill that (in a flash briefing) advises of significant deals, relevant to your buying history or explicit 'watch list'.

   I think this would take flash… more

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7. Ability to transfer a skill if ownership changes

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

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8. Room awareness enhancement: add popular device types such as Fan, Air Conditioner, Set-top-box and let users change device type

   Room awareness enhancement: add popular device types such as Fan, Air Conditioner, Set-top-box and let users change device type to their favorite. Now Alexa app allows changing device type between Light and Switch for some smart plug devices. But it would be great if for any device, users can define it as light, fan, air conditioner or set-top-box... and the room awareness feature will help simplify voice command. Users just can say: turn on the air conditioner, turn on the fan...
   This device-type-changing feature will be very powerful when an infrared/RF universal remote control like Broadlink is connected to alexa. All traditional “dumb” devices can be voice controlled by alexa taking advantage of the room awareness feature.

   Room awareness enhancement: add popular device types such as Fan, Air Conditioner, Set-top-box and let users change device type to their favorite. Now Alexa app allows changing device type between Light and Switch for some smart plug devices. But it would be great if for any device, users can define it as light, fan, air conditioner or set-top-box... and the room awareness feature will help simplify voice command. Users just can say: turn on the air conditioner, turn on the fan...
   This device-type-changing feature will be very powerful when an infrared/RF universal remote control like Broadlink is connected to alexa.… more

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9. We need more proactive notification event scheme types.

   We need more proactive notification event scheme types. The current set is very limited. We want to inform a user of utility company disruption (eg a gas leak or water leak) in their postcode area.

   Why not have a generic event that just takes a message string??

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10. money type

    we need a type for money. so if i say, "i want to pay 4 dollars and 12 cents" the slot returns 4.12. currently i'm using two slots and a lot of utterances which is painful.

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11. Remove the requirement for a leading phrase with AMAZON.SearchQuery

    We would like to use this, but can't because the rules are too restrictive.If a user is asked about what they want info about, they should not be forced to say "tell me about Point Defiance Zoo". They should be able to say "Point Defiance Zoo" with no leading phrase. Instead of forcing us to use a leading or trailing phrase, please allow the use of just {query} (without 'search for...' or other text around it as in the example below:
    {

        "name": "SearchIntent",
    
        "samples": [
    
          "search for {Query}",
    
          "find out {Query}",
    
          "search for {Query} near me"
    
        ],
    
        "slots": [
    
          {
    
            "name": "Query",
    
            "type": "AMAZON.SearchQuery"
    
          }
    
        ]
    
      }
    

    We would like to use this, but can't because the rules are too restrictive.If a user is asked about what they want info about, they should not be forced to say "tell me about Point Defiance Zoo". They should be able to say "Point Defiance Zoo" with no leading phrase. Instead of forcing us to use a leading or trailing phrase, please allow the use of just {query} (without 'search for...' or other text around it as in the example below:
    {

        "name": "SearchIntent",
    
        "samples": [
    
          "search for {Query}",
    
          "find out {Query}",
    
          "search for {Query} near me"
    
        ],
    
        "slots": [

    … more
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12. Allow developers to respond to reviews for their Alexa skills

    Reviews are one of the major ways people will decide to use your skills. It is also where developers get a lot of feedback or questions regarding their skills. Whilst you can respond to these reviews on the amazon website, it is not visible within the Alexa App for others to see.

    Please allow developers to be able to respond to reviews within the Alexa app. It will provide an easy way to answer any questions and will allow new potential users to see responses by the developer that might otherwise deter them from trying the skill.

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13. Allow Flash Briefings to use SSML

    Right now Flash Briefings won't parse SSML in their preamble, error message, or text output. This means content written for a custom skill (for example) cannot be used for Flash Briefings, and any output that could be massaged to sound correct will instead come out sounding wrong.

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14. Allow song metadata to be dynamically updated when playing continuous stream

    The audio player interface allows playing from a streaming service - e.g. a radio station
    This is a continuous stream that could run for many hours - but the skill is only given the opportunity to provide song information at the start.
    It could respond to user requests - such as "What song is this?" (which is OK) but, primarily for devices with screens, it would be useful for the skill to be able to provide title/subtitle/graphics as the songs change within the continuous stream.

    This could be done by having the Skill start the audio stream with a duration parameter which would result in a callback when it is about to be reached - similar to the PlaybackNearlyFinished request.
    The Skill could then send new metadata (potentially with an offset to say display in X seconds) and with a new duration parameter.

    An alternative approach that could work without any skill being developed at all ...
    If the player automatically took the metadata from an ICY stream (as provided by Shoutcast / Icecast servers) then it would be a good alternative - especially if the skill to parse a regex that should be used to parse the ICY title - with a default that would handle "artist name - song title" which is what many internet radio stations use (and StreamURL for the image).
    For example ...
    Playing http://www.dandelionradio.com/DandelionRadio.pls.

    Name : Dandelion Radio
    Genre : Alternative
    Website: http://www.dandelionradio.com
    Public : yes
    Bitrate: 128kbit/s
    ICY Info: StreamTitle='Rocker: D. A. Stern - Isn't It Obvious?';StreamUrl='http://www.dandelionradio.com/images/drlogosq-black.jpg';

    The audio player interface allows playing from a streaming service - e.g. a radio station
    This is a continuous stream that could run for many hours - but the skill is only given the opportunity to provide song information at the start.
    It could respond to user requests - such as "What song is this?" (which is OK) but, primarily for devices with screens, it would be useful for the skill to be able to provide title/subtitle/graphics as the songs change within the continuous stream.

    This could be done by having the Skill start the audio stream with a duration… more

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15. 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.

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16. Routines with multiple triggers

    Right now a routine is triggered by a voice command or specific time. However, some routines are to be triggered by voice and time.

    For example:
    Alexa, good night. Will turn of the lights, etc.
    But you want this routine to run at certain time, say 22:00, in case you forgot or because you don’t want to say even the command, etc.
    Currently to achieve this you would have to recreate the entire skill by hand, as were is no copy function either, but this time change the trigger. This is extremely annoying and worsens as the actions in the routine increase in count.

    Alternatively, a solution to this problem would be to be able to run routines from inside other routines, so that the setup for the second routine, as stated before, would be much quicker and easier.

    Right now a routine is triggered by a voice command or specific time. However, some routines are to be triggered by voice and time.

    For example:
    Alexa, good night. Will turn of the lights, etc.
    But you want this routine to run at certain time, say 22:00, in case you forgot or because you don’t want to say even the command, etc.
    Currently to achieve this you would have to recreate the entire skill by hand, as were is no copy function either, but this time change the trigger. This is extremely annoying and worsens as the actions in the… more

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17. Logic in routines

    There should be a way of implementing logic into routines or other voice commands to behave different in certain occasions, by the end-user. Maybe through a simple drag and drop interface, ...
    For example, if I say “Alexa, turn the lights on”, depending on the time of the day the brightness and color(-temperature) very to feel more intergrated.

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18. 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 the routine which would hike the command over to the lamp's URL without the need for the custom skill or my local server.

    The POST option would need to accept a HOST:PORT combination in order to perform appropriate routing to devices once it hits someone's router.

    This would open up opportunities for people to implement voice control of custom devices without the need to create a skill, have their own server or implement forwarding in AWS.

    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… more

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19. Volume leveling

    Users frequently need to increase or decrease volume across the different news sources in a Flash News briefing. It would be wonderful if Echo had a volume leveling similar to some TVs that can level the volume between commmercials and regular programming.

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20. Widget to run routines

    Have widgets to trigger custom or pre-made routines

    Instead of saying "Alexa, turn on my lamp" and waking up my roommate, just tap a widget on my phone's home screen (or on Alexa's app home screen) to run this routine.

    This to be a shortcut to open Alexa's app > menu > Routines > Run

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