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Use dictation and save voice note

Good day


I would like to know if it's possible to dictate using my Alexa Skill and then save the voice file to disk (physical voice file).

- An use case of this is for a specialist who uses dictation to save notes for their clients to file.

I'd like to let users dictate into Alexa and then Alexa would automatically save the file (what ever extension it may be), into their system, which Alexa already integrates with.


I'm certain we can pull the text out and if needed, throw that into a voice engine - then save the resultant file to disk but that would lose the voice of the user.

I'd like to get the actual voice file heard from Alexa?


Any help or advise is appreciated.


Thanks

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Chihiro@Amazon answered

Hi there,


Thank you for your post.

Unfortunately, third party developers does not have access to user’s voice input.


Also, Alexa skills can only handle predefined utterances. You can use Amazon.SearchQuery to get less predicable voice input but Alexa only has few seconds to record the input.


About AMAZON.SearchQuery:

https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/custom-skills/slot-type-reference.html#searchquery

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