How to catch everything the user is saying without a carrier word?

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NewUser-3591242b-0804-40fa-9f37-0cdf9cdfd109 asked · Jul 30, 2018 at 07:50 PM

How to catch everything the user is saying without a carrier word?

I want to ask the user a question like "Give me a quote" and take in the entire thing the user is saying. For now I have been using a slot type SearchQuery, but when putting it in an intent, it needs to be preceded by a carrier word like "try". I don't want that carrier phrase, I just want the user to say a quote and that quote be passed to the lambda, like "If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself" -Einstein. How can I do that?

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Answer 1 · 2018-08-25T19:06:59Z

D. Young answered · Aug 25, 2018 at 07:06 PM

This needs to happen. Please upvote this enhancement request - https://alexa.uservoice.com/forums/906892-alexa-skills-developer-voice-and-vote/suggestions/34248877-remove-the-requirement-for-a-leading-phrase-with-a

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Answer 2 · 2019-11-12T18:19:41Z

clel answered · Nov 12, 2019 at 06:19 PM

There is a request on Uservoice for this. I also added it to my unofficial issue tracker, so information can be aggregated in one place: https://gitlab.com/clel/amazon-alexa-issue-tracker/issues/15

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Answer 3 · 2018-08-01T05:11:57Z

Apeksha@amazon answered · Aug 01, 2018 at 05:11 AM

Hi Developer,

To capture what user says you can only use AMAZON.SearchQuery and using carrier phrase for every utterance is must.

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