Amazon Alexa: store user's words

Question

I\'m new to writing Alexa skills and want to write a skill to store the speaker\'s words.
For example, if I say, \'Alexa, save {whatever i say}\', it should save the wor

Answer 1

Important: AMAZON.LITERAL is deprecated as of October 22, 2018. Older skills built with AMAZON.LITERAL do continue to work, but you must migrate away from AMAZON.LITERAL when you update those older skills, and for all new skills.

Instead of using AMAZON.LITERAL, you can use a custom slot to trick alexa into passing the free flow text into the backend.

You can use this configuration to do it:

{
    "interactionModel": {
        "languageModel": {
            "invocationName": "siri",
            "intents": [
                {
                    "name": "SaveIntent",
                    "slots": [
                        {
                            "name": "text",
                            "type": "catchAll"
                        }
                    ],
                    "samples": [
                        "{text}"
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "types": [
                {
                    "name": "catchAll",
                    "values": [
                        {
                            "name": {
                                "value": "allonymous isoelectrically salubrity apositia phantomize Sangraal externomedian phylloidal"
                            }
                        },
                        {
                            "name": {
                                "value": "imbreviate Bertie arithmetical undramatically braccianite eightling imagerially leadoff"
                            }
                        },
                        {
                            "name": {
                                "value": "mistakenness preinspire tourbillion caraguata chloremia unsupportedness squatarole licitation"
                            }
                        },
                        {
                            "name": {
                                "value": "Cimbric sigillarid deconsecrate acceptableness balsamine anostosis disjunctively chafflike"
                            }
                        },
                        {
                            "name": {
                                "value": "earsplitting mesoblastema outglow predeclare theriomorphism prereligious unarousing"
                            }
                        },
                        {
                            "name": {
                                "value": "ravinement pentameter proboscidate unexigent ringbone unnormal Entomophila perfectibilism"
                            }
                        },
                        {
                            "name": {
                                "value": "defyingly amoralist toadship psoatic boyology unpartizan merlin nonskid"
                            }
                        },
                        {
                            "name": {
                                "value": "broadax lifeboat progenitive betel ashkoko cleronomy unpresaging pneumonectomy"
                            }
                        },
                        {
                            "name": {
                                "value": "overharshness filtrability visual predonate colisepsis unoccurring turbanlike flyboy"
                            }
                        },
                        {
                            "name": {
                                "value": "kilp Callicarpa unforsaken undergarment maxim cosenator archmugwump fitted"
                            }
                        },
                        {
                            "name": {
                                "value": "ungutted pontificially Oudenodon fossiled chess Unitarian bicone justice"
                            }
                        },
                        {
                            "name": {
                                "value": "compartmentalize prenotice achromat suitability molt stethograph Ricciaceae ultrafidianism"
                            }
                        },
                        {
                            "name": {
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                            }
                        },
                        {
                            "name": {
                                "value": "superstrata shucking Umbrian hepatophlebotomy undreaded introspect doxographer tractility"
                            }
                        },
                        {
                            "name": {
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                            }
                        },
                        {
                            "name": {
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                            }
                        },
                        {
                            "name": {
                                "value": "babied vagueness elabrate graphophonic kalidium oligocholia floccus strang"
                            }
                        },
                        {
                            "name": {
                                "value": "undersight monotriglyphic uneffete trachycarpous albeit pardonableness Wade"
                            }
                        },
                        {
                            "name": {
                                "value": "minacious peroratory filibeg Kabirpanthi cyphella cattalo chaffy savanilla"
                            }
                        },
                        {
                            "name": {
                                "value": "Polyborinae Shakerlike checkerwork pentadecylic shopgirl herbary disanagrammatize shoad"
                            }
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ]
        }
    }
}