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

as of end of 2018 I am using SearchQuery to get whatever the user says.

It does work, and I have it on production systems.

But you have to ask the user something and fill the slot.

For example:

• Define a slot type of SearchQuery named query (choose whatever name you want)
• Add sample utterances in the slot prompts like I want to watch {query} or {query} or I want {query}
• Make a question to the user for slot filling

const message = 'What movie do you want to watch?'

handlerInput
  .responseBuilder
  .speak(message)
  .reprompt(message)
  .addElicitSlotDirective('query')
  .getResponse();