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Julio Salamanca asked

Adding DATE type slot breaks other LITERAL slots

When i add a DATE slot to my Intent Schema on its own intent it breaks my other intents. I have 2 other intents that have LITERAL types. the date intent breaks those other intents even if i don't have any utterances using the DATE intent slot. the value of the slot is not passed along. the only time the values get passed along is when i use the exact word inside the intent slot. for example my utterance: "Hello my name is {pete |Name }" only works when the name "pete" is acutually used. but not when a differnt name is used. and like i said this only happens when i have the DATE type slot in my schema Any ideas how i can prevent this? Message was edited by: Julio Salamanca Message was edited by: Julio Salamanca
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Galactoise answered
I don't have any answer for you (although I'd suggest trying a custom slot type instead of a literal, to see what happens), but I'm glad that you posted this. A lot of people have seen really anecdotal failures of this type among more complex skills, but haven't been able to distill it down into easily reproducible failure. If you have an example that is simple to reproduce, though, that should [b]hopefully[/b] be enough for the Alexa team to troubleshoot the issue, which may result in a fix that benefits all of us. *fingers crossed*
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Nick Gardner answered
The things I'd suggest is either converting the Name slot to a custom slot and giving a large number of sample values, adding more utterances with different names, or changing the type to be a AMAZON.US_FIRST_NAME slot. Let me know if any of those suggestions work for you. -Nick
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