Alexa Voice Service (AVS) Alexa API Reference

The Alexa API reference describes APIs offered by the Alexa Voice Service (AVS) to integrate Alexa features into your product.

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AVS offers the following interfaces:

  • Alerts – Set and manage locally stored timers, alarms, and reminders.
  • Alexa – Use the Alexa interface for centralized message management and state and error reporting for other capability interfaces.
  • Alexa.ApiGateway – Coordinate URI endpoints when exchanging messages with Alexa services.
  • Alexa.ApplicationStateReporter – Notify Alexa when an app, such as Prime Video, is open on the endpoint.
  • Alexa.Camera.LiveViewController – Enable live feed video stream to a viewing device from a security camera.
  • Alexa.Discovery – Report capabilities, connection information, and other metadata for Alexa devices and connected endpoints.
  • Alexa.Display – Report physical characteristics of two-dimensional video display devices.
  • Alexa.Display.Window – Report the characteristics of potential windows that you might create on the physical display of a device.
  • Alexa.DoNotDisturb – Disable incoming notifications, announcements, and calls.
  • Alexa.InputController – Set the active audio or video input for a device.
  • Alexa.InteractionMode – Report the supported user interaction paradigms of a device, such as a "tablet mode" or an "auto head unit mode." For more details about Alexa APIs for multimodal experiences, see Alexa Multimodal API Overview.
  • Alexa.ModeController – Control and report the states of an endpoint. You define the states to match the modes of your endpoint.
  • Alexa.PowerController – Control and report the binary power state of an endpoint.
  • Alexa.Presentation – Define common visual presentation behaviors, such as reporting device-side lifecycle updates to Alexa.
  • Alexa.Presentation.APL – Renders an Alexa Presentation Language (APL) document and reports user interactions from an Alexa Built-in device. For more details about APL, see Alexa Multimodal API Overview.
  • Alexa.Presentation.APL.Video – Report the codecs that a device supports for video content in APL documents. For more details about APL, see Alexa Multimodal API Overview.
  • Alexa.RangeController – Control and report the states of an endpoint. You define the states as a continuous numeric range.
  • Alexa.SoftwareComponentReporter – Report software information to AVS.
  • Alexa.ToggleController – Control and report the binary "on" or "off" states of an endpoint.
  • AudioActivityTracker – Report to Alexa about on-device audio activities.
  • AudioPlayer – Fetch, play, and manage audio streams.
  • Bluetooth – Establish and manage connections with external Bluetooth devices.
  • EqualizerController – Set the equalizer values for speaker output.
  • InteractionModel – Publish updates to the device interaction model, for example, enabling Alexa-initiated experiences, such as Routines.
  • Notifications – Provide users with audio and visual indicators of new available content from Alexa skills.
  • PlaybackController – Communicate locally triggered playback state changes on a device to Alexa, such as user pausing playback by pressing a button.
  • Speaker – Manage a device's physical speaker volume and mute settings.
  • SpeechRecognizer – Capture and interact with user speech through a device's microphone.
  • SpeechSynthesizer – Playback synthesized speech from Alexa.
  • System – Exposes functionality related to the basic system-level operation of an Alexa Built-in device.
  • TemplateRuntime – Render display cards created from templates that accompany voice interactions, music playback, and other user experiences.
  • VisualActivityTracker – Communicate to Alexa about on-device visual activities.
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Last updated: Nov 27, 2023