I am developing amazon alexa skill and I want to add voice recognition to it, so when any user talk to Alexa, My skill should recognize the voice and get his information from our database or save his data as a new account in our database, I don't know how to do the voice recognition, do you know any idea about how to do the voice recognition ?
You cannot do this using the skills kit. Alexa only hands you text and not audio of what the user said. The user can examine what was recorded - but you cannot.
This is likely a privacy measure - giving you access to a voice print of the user may allow a privacy invasion.
If you need to connect a user to your own records, you should look into Account Linking.
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Is there any method to send a link to a user when they ask through an Alexa skill? I found Send to Phone Intent but I didn't understand how to implement it. Has anyone had to use this intent? The scenery would be as an example: Alexa, open the amazon website and it would send a push notification to the cell phone and when the customer clicked on the notification it would open the amazon website.
The Send to Phone feature should do exactly what you're describing, but it's in developer preview right now, so you need to apply here to gain access.
In the meantime, here are the tech docs, design guidelines, and a code sample.
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.
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.
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.