Shannon Lowder

When you build an Alexa skill you’ve got two rich sources of information describing how users are interacting with your skill.  The first is the data in the Alexa Skills Kit request object.  The request object is the JSON representation of what you said to your Alexa device. Alexa Voice Service(AVS) takes your spoken words…

In putting together the demo for this blog, I found there is an issue when saving data to the Alexa Session data.  I can’t reliably write to this collection in the request/response JSON.  Without this ability, I’d have to write a session manager myself.  Honestly, I don’t have time for that.  I’ve reached out to…

Currently, there are two ways we can construct our skill. You can use the Amazon developer portal, or you can use the Alexa Skills Kit Command Line Interface (ASK CLI).  Unfortunately, the CLI option is based in Node.js.  I’m not a fan, thus the reason I started writing my skills in C# instead.  Alexa Skills Kit…