which slot type should I use for any data type or we say which can accept string type data in AWS lex

Question

I have created a bot using aws-lex where I created a slot and slot-type is user defined and expand with user utterances, but this is not working as expected. This slot is not accepting all utterances we enter though test channel and re-prompting the slot question again. Is there any way we can create a slot-type which can accept any string utterances? or any inbuilt slot-type is there which accepts all data types? Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

If you have a requirement that you want specific type for example- Car types, then you can create your custom slot Types for example- CarTypes having values - SUV, MPV, Hatchback, etc.

Amazon currently supports various types of Slots for example,number, date, time, Airport country device etc.

But, there is nothing like string or a generic one as Amazon Slot type.

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

May be you can try to use the AMAZON_FIRST_NAME slot type, this kind of slot should accept almost your any-string

Answer 3

By default Amazon Lex does not have any slot type to accept any string.

However, you can create a slot without any value for the intent and uncheck the required checkbox. Then in Lambda initialization and validation hook, just grab the input of user from event['inputTranscript'] and assign that value to the slot.

Hope it helps.