I need slot type of intent for my Alexa skill

Question

I am creating a skill but I need a slot type for my intent (which takes a complete sentence as input) but it should be in Indian.

Like: AMAZON.LITERAL

It only supports English(U.K) and English(US).

I need any slot type which takes a complete sentence as input but supports English(Indian). Thanks.

Answer 1

I'm also seraching for this one for last 2 weeks. And also i email to support team of alexa. After that i got confirmation from support team that AMAZON.LITERAL slot type is not support feature in english(india).

Answer 2

You can only fake it:

• create your own slot type
• for this slot type give a lot of different utterances in different length (like "one", "this is a sentence.." and so on)
• use your slot with custom slot type in your utterances

I also needed it for a simple echo skill in GERMAN which just reply. See the dialogue model here:

• https://gitlab.com/timguy/alexa-wiederhall/blob/master/src/main/java/github/timguy/wiederhall/speechAssets/IntentSchemaSlotsUtterances_SkillBuilder.json
• instead of samples "{slotOne}" you could use " save the text I say {slotOne}"

UPDATE

I didn't tried it but just read it now. Now you could use AMAZON.SearchQuery https://developer.amazon.com/de/blogs/alexa/post/a2716002-0f50-4587-b038-31ce631c0c07/enhance-speech-recognition-of-your-alexa-skills-with-phrase-slots-and-amazon-searchquery

Answer 3

Amazon.Literal is deprecated and if you are changing the skill to en-Us then it won't be available in any other locale which i think you never want. Moreover as per my interaction with amazon development team it is not a good option to have a free text in terms of Amazon.Literal as it would add more ambiguity in their NLP for resolving intent and slot than addressing the underlying issue. Since Alexa doesn't provide you any confidence factor in intent/slot then it would be a big problem to your skill as any random word/sentence would match to Amazon.Literal. It's always good to restrict your user input as you are developing the skill especially when it involves AI/NLP.

Update

You can use the new slot type Amazon.SearchQuery that would suit your problem