Alexa Skill Kit - To save user input

Question

Is there a way to save the user input to a variable in ALexa Skill kit.

Answer 1

When you are creating an intent using Skill Builder, you can specify the Slot using curly brackets.

You can also define a Slot Type. You can define your own types or choose from built-in types.

Check the complete list here: https://developer.amazon.com/docs/custom-skills/slot-type-reference.html

From your Alexa skill (lambda function) you capture that a user is saying. You can get it from:

this.event.request.intent.slots.<SlotName>.value

Then you do with the value what do you want.

Update:

Interaction schema would be:

  {
    "name": "MyColorIsIntent",
    "samples": [
      "my favorite color is {Color}"
    ],
    "slots": [
      {
        "name": "Color",
        "type": "LIST_OF_COLORS"
      }
    ]
  },