alexa-skill

In one of the intent handler for my Alexa skill I have to return response once my promise is resolved. Code looks like this : var rcvPromise = receiveMsgQ(); rcvPromise.then(function(speechText) { console.log('rcv Promise resolved with ',speechText); return handlerInput.responseBuilder .speak(speechText) .withSimpleCard('skill_name', speechText) .withShouldEndSession(false) .getResponse(); }); Skill returns with ERROR message with no additional details about error. Is there any way to fix this problem? PS: I need to use promise as receiveMsgQ() is asynchronous function call. The error you're

Is it possible to use Alexa Skill Kit's ASK CLI deploy command to build, for example, a debug version of the app that deploys a development environment and a release version of the app that deploys to a test environment? My team and I are trying to deploy the same skill to two different environments, so our testing team can do their thing in the test environments and development can do their thing in the development environment. This will be a private skill so using http://developer.amazon.com separation of test and "prod" via publishing the application is not an option. There are probably a

I am developing a simple, custom skill for Alexa. I have it up and running, and hosting the handler on AWS Lambda. It's working fine except... In the test UI, if I enter a valid utterance, e.g., help, cancel, swim, run (two custom utterances), everything works well; however, if I enter a nonsense utterance, e.g., dsfhfdsjhf, the Alexa service always maps the nonsense to the first valid intent in the intents schema. In my lambda code, I have a handler for handling unknown intents; however, the intent is never unknown. Is this an artifact of the test interface? Something else happening? Thanks,

In the following example: If the user says toffee, shouldn't that be translated to candy? I ask because the value handed to my intent is 'toffee'. So not sure what I have incorrect. types":[ { "name":"SHOPPING_LIST", "values":[ { "id":null, "name":{ "value":"candy", "synonyms":[ "toffee" ] } }, { "name":"GetPrice", "samples":[ "Get me the price of {item}", "tell me the price of {item}", ], "slots":[ { "name":"item", "type":"SHOPPING_LIST" } ] } We need to handle the entity resolution in your backend code. More can be referred here: https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/5de2b24d-d932

After playing around with the nice browser GUIs of developer.amazon.com and aws.amazon.com things getting serious and now I want to use ask-cli to initialize Alexa skills and their lambda functions. When I want to ask init , it tells me, I should select a profile or create a new one. Both jump to the browser and use OAuth to authenticate my ask installation. ~ ask init ? Please create a new profile or overwrite the existing profile. (Use arrow keys) ────────────── ❯ Create new profile ────────────── Profile Associated AWS Profile [default] ** NULL ** [aws_profile] ** NULL ** But the AWS