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Steve L. asked Jan 22, '16

How to get alexa to listen for a second response?

How do I format my json response to get alexa to keep listening for another response? I am setting shouldEndSession to false but each time it is sending a new session.

alexa skills kit debugging

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Galactoise answered Jan 22, '16

Can you elaborate on what you mean by "sending a new session"?

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Steve L. answered Jan 22, '16

Alexa, open myskilltest {"version":"1.0","response":{"outputSpeech":{"type":"PlainText","text":"Pick a difficulty level: easy, medium, hard, or genius."}},"shouldEndSession":"false","reprompt":{"outputSpeech":{"type":"PlainText","text":null}},"sessionAttributes":null} Then I want to listen for my response but alexa does not.

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Galactoise answered Jan 22, '16

Oh, you're just trying to get the session to stay open after your output speech? That json looks pretty good to my eyes. I notice you aren't returning a card, but I wouldn't expect that to mess with the session state. The only other suggestion I have is maybe don't return a reprompt with a null text. Either add some text in there, or just make the entire reprompt object null.

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Steve L. answered Jan 22, '16

I have tried with and without the reprompt without any success. I have also added a card but have the same problem with or without it. The only other thing that might be causing it is that I am using a Lambda function as a passthru. The json is fetched from an external server and passed to AWS. Would that cause this?

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Steve L. answered Jan 23, '16

Got the answer in the debug forum, wahoo!

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April L. Hamilton answered Feb 14, '16

Steve - could you provide the link, so anyone who finds [i]this[/i] thread first can drill down to the solution from here?

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Levon@Amazon answered Feb 15, '16

That would probably be this one: https://forums.developer.amazon.com/forums/message.jspa?messageID=28513#28513

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