How do I force Alexa to speak messages? For example everytime someone mentions Elon Musk on Twitter I want my Alexa to automatically speak the tweet.
It's not possible yet to trigger Alexa directly without Alexa wasn't asked. You could use notifications. Alexa will have a yellow ring and user has to ask for messages.
See https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/smapi/proactive-events-api.html fro details.
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I am trying to create a simple survey skill in Amazon Alexa where Alexa asks the user a question and they respond in any manner they feel like (open-ended). For example, if Alexa asks "Do you cook?", a user may respond in many ways such as "Yes I do cook", "My son does the cooking" etc.
The issue I am getting is that the questions can have similar responses so when I create an utterance in the Alexa dev console they overlap (utterance conflicts) and I am redirected to the error handler. (note each question has its own intent)
Is there any other way I can go about creating a survey without using intents?
Can I capture the full user response to a slot?
The reason being I want to store the user's response in a database.
Unfortunately, Alexa Skills aren't designed to do Speech To Text.
When a user talks to a device, the request goes through multiple steps:
Automated Speech Recognition > It does Speech To Text internally
Natural Language Understanding (NLU) > Using Machine Learning, it will understand what the user want to do (Stop a skill, play music, switch on the light, ...)
Depending of the context, if the NLU understand that the user is trying to respond to your skill (the interaction model match what the user is saying), it will send a POST request to your skill. But it will not send you the Speech To Text.
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Although, the intent AMAZON.SearchQuery will do the job but you will have to use a prefix: My answer is {query} and not directly {query} because all requests will be redirected to this intent otherwise. It will not look like a good & smooth user experience.
I am new in Alexa skill kit development
I have already read Tutorials on Alexa Skill Kit
I have to implement Alexa Skill , In which I need to manually send command and want Alexa to speak it.
i.e When user login in system I can fire API as Alexa request and I want Alexa device to Speak that for example "Welcome Have a great day"
Is it Possible ? Or Any other alternatives. ?
Notifications for Alexa skill are in still in beta. You can apply for the access to it by filling up this form here : https://alexa.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_72lplGGegxNZ9Ln
If Push Notifications is what you're looking for, then the answer is YES.
Since in the comments you said, "You are not asking for HOW TO DO IT", so I'll just let this link here for your reference. https://developer.amazon.com/docs/alexa-voice-service/notifications-overview.html
I think you may want to use proactive events for your skill. They are now commercially available. You will be able to send a notification to your skill and the Amazon device will blink (yellow). However you will still need to say "Alexa check my notifications" to retrieve the actual message
https://developer.amazon.com/docs/smapi/proactive-events-api.html
Another idea would be to use "progressive response" feature: https://developer.amazon.com/docs/custom-skills/send-the-user-a-progressive-response.html
You can fire the interaction to alexa when your API is invoked and send a progressive response. Not really a notification but it might serve you. This way you will not need to ask to check the notifications to Alexa but directly get the voice message in the progressive responses
I need help in sending notifications to alexa device of a user (echo, dot, etc.. not the other non amazon alexa devices) from alexa skill i am building. I see quote maker doing it but, how its doing it is a blackbox.
For example if the user ordered some item through my skill (say abc org). I would like to notify user on their alexa devices about the status of order proactively ( eg, item shipped, or item out for deliver today).
Amazon has this already for amazon shopping, but i dont see much information on implementing the same for skills.
I saw quote maker creating a notification for self, but how its doing it is a blackbox
I had the exact same question and am still not 100% sure about the answer.
As best as I can tell, the Notifications API never made it out of developer preview, and instead has been replaced with the Proactive Events API.
Unfortunately, unless your skill needs to send notifications about trash pickup or sports scores, you're probably out of luck. Here is the complete list of all notifications types that are currently supported:
Weather alert
Sports event update
Message reminder
Order status update
Reservation confirmation
Trash collection reminder
Media content availability notification
Social game invitation notification
My intent to call the specified phone number from my own skill.
For example
Me: Alexa, ask <invocation> to find the customer service number
Alexa: Sure, the customer service number is 1800-xxx-xxx-xxx. Would you like to call
Me: Yes
[HOW TO MAKE CALL NOW?]
It would be possible to open a phone call from your programmed skill (alexa skill service). But for sure you not just want to start the call but also that the user can speak into alexa? But it's not possible to get the voice from the user.
Amazon Alexa transfers the speech input into text.
Your skill service only get JSON requests from the amazon skill interface with intents and spoken things as text.
So there is no chance to the get the audio track from the alexa user. Also stated in the forum
There is a feature request - you should watch this feature and vote for it.
Or you implement something like a callbackservice that you interconnect users telephone to service customer number. E.g. via an app on the phone - see this
You can make a call using your echo device or using the Alexa app as long as contact is in your list using Alexa Calling. Calling is only supported in U.S., U.K., Canada, and Mexico.
Here is another link to help you setup
https://au.pcmag.com/gallery/60053/how-to-call-someone-from-your-amazon-echo
I am trying to build a conversational skill in Amazon Alexa. Once I start my skill, how can I know what the user said for the second time when I set should_end_session as false?
How do you mean what the user said for the second time? Any response a user provides in a live session should match one of the utterances for your skill and those utterances are linked to intents.
What response are you trying to get from the user? Please provide more information.