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Post by laken » Wed, May 02, 2018, 11:19 PM UTC

adrianbg wrote: post #29

laken wrote: post #28

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Yeah, I was working on an Alexa skill once where I wanted the user to be able to say anything. That isn’t possible really, unless you give Alexa a really long randomly generated list of un-related/non-existent words for the “intent”, so that when Alexa tries to parse what the user says to those words, it fails and just provides its next best guess.

Google's speech recognition is supposed to be much better, though not sure if they'd allow "one intent to rule them all" like you want. For free-form speech recognition in Alexa, the best option I've seen mentioned on the public Alexa Slack team is using the "SearchQuery" slot. So you'd still have to make a weird catch-all intent that would eat up some of the words (and you wouldn't be able to see them). At the same…

Post by djangowithme » Wed, May 02, 2018, 11:26 PM UTC

adrianbg wrote: post #32

djangowithme wrote: post #30

"You are not eligible to enable this skill due to geographical restrictions." :( This is super useful, would love to install it!

Hmm sorry. Where abouts are you? I didn't intentionally put on any restrictions.

Post by adrianbg » Wed, May 02, 2018, 11:29 PM UTC

laken wrote: post #31

adrianbg wrote: post #29

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Google's speech recognition is supposed to be much better, though not sure if they'd allow "one intent to rule them all" like you want. For free-form speech recognition in Alexa, the best option I've seen mentioned on the public Alexa Slack team is using the "SearchQuery" slot. So you'd still have to make a weird catch-all intent that would eat up some of the words (and you wouldn't be able to see them). At the same…

Might have to try google home. As an aside, did you hit 100 enables yet? If so, congrats on the free dot :)

Post by djangowithme » Thu, May 03, 2018, 2:24 AM UTC

adrianbg wrote: post #34

djangowithme wrote: post #33

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Canada

Oh man, def not intentional. I'm Canadian too.

Post by binoyxj » Thu, May 03, 2018, 2:27 PM UTC

adrianbg wrote: post #22

walshemj wrote: post #21

Interesting it looks like the uk and us versions of amazon have different skills availible

My guess would be that they have separate speech recognition / synthesis models. Sorry, I should try and get this thing out to other countries too.