We are excited to announce four new Alexa Skills Kit built-in intents that you can leverage immediately in your own Alexa skills.
Think of the intent schema as the blueprint for what your Alexa skill will do. Built-in intents are common actions that you can choose to implement in your custom skill without providing any sample utterances. If you created an Alexa skill in the past, you may have leveraged some of the other built-in intents for your intent schema. With built-in intents, you can build a more robust skill with less sample utterances required in your interaction model. Leveraging these built-in intents is easy and allows more flexibility.
Here are four new built-in intents available now:
Intent |
Common Utterances |
Purpose |
AMAZON.NextIntent |
|
Let the user navigate to the next item in a list. |
AMAZON.PauseIntent |
|
Let the user pause an action in progress. |
AMAZON.PreviousIntent |
|
Let the user go back to a previous item in a list. |
AMAZON.ResumeIntent |
|
Let the user resume or continue an action. |
With these additional built-in intents, you can help users easily and naturally navigate your skills, from being able to pause an intent or request in progress, go back to a previously called intent or resume an existing one. Users can use natural language and phrasing to support these common interactions, allowing you to leverage the built-in intents rather than having to handle these types of requests programmatically.
Already have a skill? This may be a good time to update it with these new intents. Check out the Implementing Built-in Intents page for more information.
For a complete list of built-in intents, see Available Built-in Intents.
Code Happy,
-Noelle (@NoelleLaCharite)