My Recent post to Amazon support (Alexa Skill Development)

[prabha_friend]

Subject​

Need knowledge on passing properties' value to a slot with properties...

Description​

Hi Amazon, Good Evening. I am Prabhakaran from India - a Budding Alexa Conversational Skill Developer. I recently have observed that the slots may have properties instead of values. I tried declaring such slots but don't know how pass or assign values to those slot's properties. I have searched in the internet but no avail as it may be a recent future for alexa skills. I even tried posting a question on stackoverflow. But they haven't even promoted as my as a question. Need help. Please assist. Thank you. With Hope, Prabhakaran
p.s: stackoverflow.com/questions/79388452/how-to-supply-values-to-the-properties-of-custom-slot-types-defined-with-propert

 

[prabha_friend]

Subject​

Need knowledge on passing properties' value to a slot with properties...

Description​

Hi Amazon, Good Evening. I am Prabhakaran from India - a Budding Alexa Conversational Skill Developer. I recently have observed that the slots may have properties instead of values. I tried declaring such slots but don't know how pass or assign values to those slot's properties. I have searched in the internet but no avail as it may be a recent future for alexa skills. I even tried posting a question on stackoverflow. But they haven't even promoted as my as a question. Need help. Please assist. Thank you. With Hope, Prabhakaran
p.s: stackoverflow.com/questions/79388452/how-to-supply-values-to-the-properties-of-custom-slot-types-defined-with-propert

Amazon replied!

To:You
Tue 28/01/2025 11:01


Hi there,

Thank you for contacting us. I understand that you are trying to understand how to pass or assign values to the properties of custom slot types that have been defined with properties, instead of just simple values.

To better assist you, I need some additional information:

What are the specific properties of your custom slot types that you need to pass values to?

What is the use case or context where you need to set these property values?

Can you provide an example of the code you have tried so far to set the property values, and describe any issues or errors you are encountering?

With more details on your specific scenario and what you have attempted, I can provide guidance on the proper way to pass values to properties of custom slot types in your Alexa skill after consulting with technical team. Please provide the additional information requested, and I'll be happy to assist further.

To know more about Alexa Conversation: https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/conversations/about-alexa-conversations.html

To know how Alexa Conversations Works: https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/conversations/how-alexa-conversations-works.html

To know more about how to create the Interaction Model for Your Skill: https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/...ate-the-interaction-model-for-your-skill.html

Best regards,

Aijaz Ahmad L.
Alexa Developer Advocate
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[prabha_friend]

Amazon replied!

To:You
Tue 28/01/2025 11:01


Hi there,

Thank you for contacting us. I understand that you are trying to understand how to pass or assign values to the properties of custom slot types that have been defined with properties, instead of just simple values.

To better assist you, I need some additional information:

What are the specific properties of your custom slot types that you need to pass values to?

What is the use case or context where you need to set these property values?

Can you provide an example of the code you have tried so far to set the property values, and describe any issues or errors you are encountering?

With more details on your specific scenario and what you have attempted, I can provide guidance on the proper way to pass values to properties of custom slot types in your Alexa skill after consulting with technical team. Please provide the additional information requested, and I'll be happy to assist further.

To know more about Alexa Conversation: https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/conversations/about-alexa-conversations.html

To know how Alexa Conversations Works: https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/conversations/how-alexa-conversations-works.html

To know more about how to create the Interaction Model for Your Skill: https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/...ate-the-interaction-model-for-your-skill.html

Best regards,

Aijaz Ahmad L.
Alexa Developer Advocate
================================


Please do not reply to this email. To respond to us again about this issue, please use the following link:
https://developer.amazon.com/alexa/console/contact-us/case?caseID=17089095081

To contact us about a separate issue, please open a new case:
https://developer.amazon.com/alexa/console/contact-us

Stack Overflow is also a great place to ask the community for skill building help or to share your own knowledge:
https://alexa.design/forum

Hi. Good Evening. Thanks for your reply. I really am excited and at the same time thrilled to get replies from Amazon.
As for the properties...
My friend is running a vegetable shop serving restaurants around my town.
So. I am thinking of Developing a VUI (Voice User Interface) for him using Alexa as the backbone.
Restaurants.csv
ID; Name; NameInLocalLanguage; Location; Mobile.
The above will go for the static properties.
At the same time... When I think on it, it may posses additional properties with dynamic values.
For Example:
Restautrant.PendingAmount; LastOrderDate and so on.
These are my initial ideas but may grow further.
Requesting you to guide on the same.
ps:
upon searching I came to know that there is a slack channel for Amazon Skill Development. Sincerely requesting you to kindly add me over there. This is all as for now. Thanks. Expecting replies from you.
With Hope,
Prabhakaran.

 

[GPGeorge]

What are you trying to accomplish by posting what appears to be totally unrelated to anything here?

I'm sure you're getting help using Amazon from Amazon. Why do we need to know that?

 

[prabha_friend]

Okay I will stop. Just wanted to know anyone here tried developing an VUI? (Voice User Interface)
Does Ms Acces support voice recognition feature? (My Alexa journey started from this question only)

 

[GPGeorge]

Okay I will stop. Just wanted to know anyone here tried developing an VUI? (Voice User Interface)
Does Ms Acces support voice recognition feature? (My Alexa journey started from this question only)

So, did you ask if anyone was interested in VUI for Amazon? Or were we supposed to just infer that somehow?

Whether Access supports voice recognition is a different question, only tangentially related to using Alexa.
Have you searched for resources on voice recognition for Access?

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Access would indirectly support any installed voice recognition device that is callable using the standard method of API calling. Access would not, based on anything in it that I have found, support voice input based on "standard" Access abilities. But a device that you could open for input and that would produce word streams would be usable. It would therefore depend more on the voice input. And then there is the idea that if Access can't do it, Windows might help you in some way. The research starts with an Accessibility feature.

For Windows 11, look at "Voice Access" - which is found via Start >> Settings >> Accessibility >> Speech >> Voice Access - to see what it can and cannot do. There is a web link under the Voice Access option to a fairly busy help file. Note that for Win11, Windows Speech Recognition is a deprecated feature and they are suggesting that the Voice Access feature replaces it.

For older versions of Windows, look for the Windows Speech Recognition feature which is again part of their Accessibility list of features.

 

[prabha_friend]

This is how I want. Simple:
Me: Take orders for Hotel Sri Balaji.
System: Please give your orders for Hotel Sri Balaji.
Me: Tomato 2 Kg
System; Tomato 2 kg added
Me: Onion Big 1 Bag
System: Onion 1 bag added.
...
.....
Until I say check out.
When I say check out.
It has to say the total value.
And also has to print the Bill Automatically...
Which would be easier for this? Access? Or Alexa? Suggestions needed. Thanks.

I am not adamant. Just expressing the change of necessities over time period...

 

[Isaac]

Excel has a range.speak method but I'm not sure if there's anything that goes in reverse.

Interesting project, I don't know much about Alexa, being an all-Google household (except my traitor iphone daughter LOL)

 

[GPGeorge]

This is how I want. Simple:
Me: Take orders for Hotel Sri Balaji.
System: Please give your orders for Hotel Sri Balaji.
Me: Tomato 2 Kg
System; Tomato 2 kg added
Me: Onion Big 1 Bag
System: Onion 1 bag added.
...
.....
Until I say check out.
When I say check out.
It has to say the total value.
And also has to print the Bill Automatically...
Which would be easier for this? Access? Or Alexa? Suggestions needed. Thanks.

I am not adamant. Just expressing the change of necessities over time period...

You're out there in front with this idea. You'll have to rely on your own research for the most part.

 

[isladogs]

See my article from 2023:

Dictation in Access

Although not officially supported, it is possible to use speech to text (dictation) to input data in Access. This article explains how to do so.

www.isladogs.co.uk

 

[prabha_friend]

See my article from 2023:

Dictation in Access

Although not officially supported, it is possible to use speech to text (dictation) to input data in Access. This article explains how to do so.

www.isladogs.co.uk

Thanks