Is there any API to create intents and utterances in alexa from a third party system like "Magento".
Any help would be highly appreciated.
Check Voice Apps and Invocable
These are 3rd party online tools to help you build and publish Alexa Skills with drag and drop facility. You can easily create intents, slots and add utterances.
I think you're looking for Alexa Skill Management API (SMAPI). This is official and You'll need to create a Amazon app to use it. All details can be found here
SMAPI provides RESTful HTTP interfaces for programmatically performing Alexa skill management tasks, such as creating a new skill or updating an interaction model.
You'll can first create a Skill using the above API, then create/update intents and slots using Interaction Model Management. To do this you'll need to be comfortable with Interaction Model Schemas and a sample Scheme can be found here
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Alexa is able to find service providers and also call them. Is it possible to use this capability from an Alexa skill. For example could an Alexa skill find and call a near-by doctor upon request?
The direct calling and search features of Alexa are not available currently within a custom skill, however you could achieve this your by using 3rd party APIs.
For example you can look up local businesses using the Yelp API and connect and connect a call using a Twilio API. You may want to register the user’s mobile number for this particular example.
It should also be noted that the features available in the Amazon SDK are always being updated. So it may be added in the future.
I have built a Alexa Skill, but for now it only works for Alexa Device.
I wonder if that is possible I can deploy/reference the Alexa Skill in my website (only text or voice part)?
One use case:
User can say "i am born in xx/xx/xxxx", and Alexa can capture the intent "CaptureBirthdayIntent", so that my website code (Python) can address the intent.
I found many CMS (e.g. Wordpress, Drupal) can do this: https://medium.com/#OPTASY.com/how-to-integrate-alexa-with-your-drupal-8-website-a-step-by-step-guide-5a76c1d74a88. But I am not using those CMS.
It also seems like Alexa Voice Service can do this.
Can anyone give me some reference?
In most cases, you'll need to use Account Linking, which is an API where the customer links their account at your website and their account with Alexa, and then you'll have a unique ID for the customer that is the same in both your skill and your external app (and is unique to that link between them), so you can sync data between them using a database.
https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/account-linking/understand-account-linking.html
You can create your own unique OAuth 2 provider at your web app or use Login with Amazon, Login with Google, Facebook, AWS Cognito... Having your own OAuth provider can make it way easier to get a customer linked and not have them give up, because adding in third parties (LwA, Google, FB, AWS) adds extra logins/authorizations to complete the process.
You can use Dialogflow to do this. Make a chatbot with similar intents and map the endpoint to Alexa endpoints and should work. I am sure you can easily work it out if you have made an Alexa skill.
I have a music application. I have built all the custom skill for my music application and it is working fine in amazon echo device. My question is how do i integrate it with alexa app. I can see spotify, pandora, saavn etc in the music section of alexa app and any song playing from this 3rd party application will appear in playqueue and now playing section in alexa app. So how to integrate? Any ideas or link regarding this will help me a lot.
Read and follow this: Submitting the Skill for Certification
When your skill is ready for publication, you can submit it to Amazon for review. The Submit for Certification button becomes available once all required fields are completed.
So make sure you meet all Certification Requirements.
When you submit your skill to the Alexa skills store, it must pass a certification process before it can be published live to Amazon customers. Before you submit your new skill for certification, you should perform your own quality assurance testing.
First, Policy Testing.
The following list shows specific examples that we look out for when evaluating whether a skill can be made available on Alexa.
Second, Security Testing.
To protect customer data, the cloud-based service for your skill must meet Amazon’s security requirements.
Third, Functional Testing.
The functional tests verify that: The skill’s basic functionality matches the information displayed on the skill’s detail card in the Amazon Alexa app. ...[And] the skill’s core functionality works and provides useful home cards to the Amazon Alexa app.
Fourth, Voice Interface and User Experience Testing.
Voice interface and user experience testing focuses on: Testing the user experience to ensure that the skill is aligned with several key features of Alexa that help create a great experience for customers. [And] reviewing the intent schema, the set of sample utterances, and the list of values for any custom slot types you have defined to ensure that they are correct, complete, and adhere to voice design best practices.
My intention is my users can insert some intent to my alexa skill using my applications. So I need to change the intent schema and sample utterance of my alexa skill dynamically.
Is there any way to update intent schema and sample utterances without resubmisson and without using amazon developer portal.
Thanks
No, there is no way to update the configuration of a skill programmatically or dynamically.
There is a popular feature request in for this though:.
https://forums.developer.amazon.com/content/idea/49556/programmatic-way-to-update-slots-intent-schema-and.html
I want to use amazon alexa api for my website/ mobile application. I would like to know if it is possible to use and how to integrate alexa, given that I develop my custom skill.
You can use the Alexa Voice Service. You will need to collect the user's audio and then submit it to Amazon. The voice snippet does not need to contain the hotword (e.g. Alexa). You should be able to use most features that don't involve the device and aren't asynchronous. For example, you can utilize the alarm or timer features nor the music streams.
It sounds like you are asking how to allow the user to talk to your website or mobile app.
An Alexa custom skill is something you create to extend Alexa's vocabulary, so to speak. It isn't an alternative to using a mouse or keyboard with an existing app.
A website and a mobile app are, or can be, two different ways for a user to access the functionality you provide. Think of an Alexa skill as a 3rd way to access that functionality. A user could ask the Alexa device (Echo, Dot, iPhone Lexi app, etc) to get or perform the same things that your website does.
So for example, if your website explains how your widgets work, then you could create a widget Alexa skill that would allow Alexa user's to ask about your widgets.
The Alexa Voice Service is something entirely different. It is an API to enable adding Alexa voice to a different piece of hardware. For example, my friend Thaddeus created an Alexa Voice Service app called Lexi that runs on an iPhone. This allows a user to talk to Alexa using their iPhone. However, it doesn't add any new capability to Alexa. It only allows me to do things on my iPhone that I can already do on my Echo.