I have worked on the Skill that can be invoked by an Alexa command. Now I want to know if I can invoke the Skill without an Alexa command? Can a Skill be invoked by itself by some mechanism?
There must be some type of activity to invoke skill, otherwise there is no mechanism yet to invoke automatically at the time of answering your question.
We have confirmed by the official team of Alexa.
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I have set up an Echo Dot device for my account. My intent is to call an Alexa skill on this device externally.
I have seen a lot of tutorials, but I could only see that these skills were started by voice.
Is there any way to trigger an Alexa skill by using an API, and not using voice at all? If not, what would be the market available alternatives for such a workflow?
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 for details.
I've found a way of achieving this.
By using IFTTT, there is a skill called IFTTTriger that you can install in your Alexa device, and later on, install the https://mkzense.com/iftttrigger . In that way, I was able to create an IFTTT applet that could trigger Alexa using a virtual device.
That is the only way available as of now. Worked perfectly well.
I'm wondering if there's a way to execute an Alexa skill programmatically. Specifically, I want a Raspberry Pi to tell my Alexa device to play a specific song from Amazon Music.
I'm really new to Alexa but the docs I'm reading are all about how to create and manage skills, not call them.
Is this possible?
You should try slightly different product from Amazon. It called Alexa Voice Service
Maybe you are looking to reuse the logic you already have via voice with Alexa to play your songs and use another way via raspberry pi to control the music. This could help you:
How can I trigger Alexa intent with clicks rather than voice
Is there a way I can use voice recognition to personalize responses in an Alexa Skill? I am creating an Alexa Skill where I want Alexa to generate responses based on the user who utters the command. Currently I'm thinking of simply configuring the app such that it asks the user who they are before responding to their command/question. However, this is a very naive approach, so I was wondering if there is a way Alexa can use voice recognition to figure out who is talking to it. Couldn't find anything useful online, so it would be great if anyone here who has done something similar could share their insights.
Amazon is working on this capability, and is current accepting requests to receive more information as it is released. You can sign up with Amazon to receive information here.
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.