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APIs Build an Alexa Skill Building an Alexa Skill Creating an Intent Schema

Posted by john knight
john knight
Courses Plus Student 9,155 Points

I Have Two Questions

1st Question

What does "slot" syntax mean and what it does and what's the "name" and "type" syntaxes does?.

2nd Question

this is an optional question. Is this value accepted in the intent syntax? "intent":"openAirConditioner" "intent":"closeAirConditioner" "intent":"openLights" "intent":"closeLigts"

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,271 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,271 Points

A "slot" is a portion of an utterance that conveys information used to carry out the request. I like to think of it as a "verbal variable". The "name" acts as an identifier in the sample utterances (sort of like a variable name). And the "type" indicates the possibilities for what may be used in the slot. Typically, and as shown in the videos, this would refer to a custom list of words.

For question 2, each intent should be enclosed in braces and the sets of braces should be separated by commas.

john knight
john knight
Courses Plus Student 9,155 Points

Yes thank you, Steven