Amazon Alexa Slot Types
Amazon has several slot types that are built-in inth the Alexa Skills Kit.
BotTalk provides the multi-platform alternatives for some the common slot types using the prefix @bottalk.
However, when you want to develop a scenario in BotTalk that targets Amazon Alexa platform specifically, you might want to use some of the less common slot types natively.
For example:
AMAZON.ActorAMAZON.EUROPE_CITYAMAZON.VideoGame
and so on. You can find the whole list of Alexa slot types here.
Using Amazon Alexa Slot Types in BotTalk
Here is how you would use these Alexa-spefic slot types in BotTalk:
Your Scenario steps could look something like that:
- name: Initial step
actions:
- sendText: 'Hey, what is your favorite actor?'
- getInput:
next:
actor_choice: Video Game Question
AMAZON.CancelIntent: Exit
AMAZON.StopIntent: Exit
AMAZON.HelpIntent: Help
- name: Video Game Question
actions:
- sendText: 'And what video game did you enjoy the most?'
- getInput:
next:
videogame_choice: City Question
- name: City Question
actions:
- sendText: "Finally, what is the most romanic european city you've been to?"
- getInput:
next:
europeancity_choice: Read Choices
- name: Read Choices
actions:
- sendText: >
That's a match! {{ actor }} is enjoying a glass of nice wine,
looking at the sunset in {{ city }},
after just finishing {{ game }}!
In your Intents section:
---
intents:
actor_choice:
- '{actor}'
videogame_choice:
- '{game}'
europeancity_choice:
- '{city}'
In your Slots section:
---
slots:
actor: 'AMAZON.Actor'
game: 'AMAZON.VideoGame'
city: 'AMAZON.EUROPE_CITY'
Finally, save and deploy to Alexa Console
The result in the Alexa Simulator:
