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vikas vadlamudi asked · Dec 20, 2016 at 09:14 PM

reset user activity

do we have to clear the reset user activity for every recognize event (considering this as user activity) or do we have to clear it only when we receive resetuseracitivty directive from server?

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Answer 1 · 2016-12-21T00:37:44Z

Max@Amazon answered · Dec 21, 2016 at 12:37 AM

Hi Vikas, are you referring to the UserInactivity events and directives in the System namespace? https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-voice-service/reference/system

If so, your application should keep a timer to track how much time has elapsed since the last user activity. This time should be reported hourly using the UserInactivityReport event: https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-voice-service/reference/system#userinactivityreport

To (hopefully) answer your question, you should reset your user activity timer when you receive a ResetUserInactivity directive and additionally whenever the user interacts with your application. For example, our reference app has a method in the AVSController class called onUserActivity() which resets the inactivity timer. This method is called whenever the app is interacted with, including UI interactions and speech interactions. The reason we also have the ResetUserInactivity directive is so that the timer can be reset when the user interacts with the Alexa app as well.

Let me know if you have any other questions about this!

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vikas vadlamudi · Dec 21, 2016 at 06:28 AM

Hi max,

I don't see the onUserActivity() being called while sending recognize event. Do we need to clear the activity timer when user speaks?

Regards>< Vikas

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Max@Amazon vikas vadlamudi · Dec 21, 2016 at 11:38 PM

In the case of our sample app (without wake word detection enabled), onUserActivity() is called whenever an element of our app UI is interacted with. So for example, when the user wants to send a speech request to Alexa, they click the microphone button to start recording, which in turn triggers onUserActivity(). In our case, we don't tie onUserActivity() to the sending of a Recognize event, though your implementation will depend on your application.

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