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Processing spoken lists of things

It would be awesome if Alexa could understand when a list of things was being spoken. So a sample utterances file could look like this:

ShoppingListIntent Add [list] {units} {items} [/list] to my shopping list

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Ross@Amazon answered
Sample Utterances do not support this behavior but a list or array of items can be managed through a Lambda function.
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Right, I get that. I'm offering a suggestion that you [i]should[/i] support it ideally. The point is that oftentimes if I'm running off a list of items, it would be a better user experience to not have to wait for a response from Alexa between each item. Creating sample utterances for N number of complex list items is basically impossible because of the number of permutations required.
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