Update (May 10, 2020) Updated to reflect Voiceflow UI changes as of May 10, 2020. A demo skill built using this tutorial is now available in the Voiceflow Community Marketplace. You can view and download it as a template. Get User’s Day of the Week on the Voiceflow Community Marketplace Introduction At some point in… Continue reading Amazon Alexa Skill Development Tutorial: How to Get the User’s Day of the Week using Voiceflow
Tag: AlexaSkillsKit
Amazon Alexa VUI Design: Slot Type Cross Reference Worksheets – Updated December 7, 2019
Update December 7, 2019 The worksheets have been updated to reflect expanded locale support for the PhoneNumber and Ordinal slot types. Amazon’s announcement: The Built-In FallbackIntent, PhoneNumber Slot (Beta), and Ordinal Slot (Beta) Get Expanded Locale Support Introduction The Amazon reference documentation and Alexa Developer Console (ADC) organizes the available built-in slot types by region.… Continue reading Amazon Alexa VUI Design: Slot Type Cross Reference Worksheets – Updated December 7, 2019
Amazon Alexa Skills Development Voiceflow Tutorial: How to Efficiently Manage Character Voices. Part 1: Variables
This tutorial is the first in a series about techniques for managing voices for characters in Alexa skills built using Voiceflow. This post in the Alexa Blogs provides some context about options for voices when designing and developing skills: “To Record, or Not to Record” “When it comes to audio you have to make a… Continue reading Amazon Alexa Skills Development Voiceflow Tutorial: How to Efficiently Manage Character Voices. Part 1: Variables
How to Tailor Voice and Text with the Voiceflow Locale Variable
Level: Intermediate This tutorial introduces the new Voiceflow locale variable, and a technique for using it to control which voice and text are used. The locale variable makes it possible to detect a user’s language and region, and use this for tailoring the interaction. This tutorial assumes you are familiar with the basics of creating… Continue reading How to Tailor Voice and Text with the Voiceflow Locale Variable
Voiceflow Javascript Code Block: Random Number Generator: One through a specified Maximum Value
Updates August 12, 2020: Voiceflow implemented ability to use external libraries in the code block. “var” was removed from the code block example, as the variable is already initialized. May 30, 2019: This tutorial is for generating random numbers that can repeat. In this case each new number generated is independent of the previous number’s… Continue reading Voiceflow Javascript Code Block: Random Number Generator: One through a specified Maximum Value
How to POST from VoiceFlow to Airtable via API
This tutorial describes how to to POST a record from Voiceflow to an Airtable. A POST will add a new record to the bottom of an Airtable. Level: Intermediate This tutorial assumes you are familiar with both Airtable and Voiceflow. If not, there are some links to resources at the bottom of this post. This… Continue reading How to POST from VoiceFlow to Airtable via API
Amazon Alexa Skills Development: SSML Copy and Paste Worksheet 1 – UPDATED!
Update: December 6, 2020 Additional SSML support was announced by Amazon on November 24th, 2020: Alexa Speaking Styles and Emotions Now Available in Additional Languages The worksheets and incompatible tags chart have been updated. Summary of changes: Music speaking style: Canadian English and British English are now supported. Conversational speaking style: Japanese and Italian are… Continue reading Amazon Alexa Skills Development: SSML Copy and Paste Worksheet 1 – UPDATED!