the utterance
the slot being used
the testing screen
the intent in my lambda function:
var phoneNumber;
"getPhoneNumberIntent": function() {
phoneNumber = this.event.request.intent.slots.phoneNumber.value;
if (getLength(phoneNumber) === 10) {
this.response.speak('I heard <say-as interpret-as="telephone"> ' + phoneNumber + '</say-as>. Is this the correct number?').listen();
this.emit(':responseReady');
} else {
console.log(phoneNumber);
this.response.speak('That is not a valid phone number. Please try again.').listen();
}
},
When I type in the incredibly specific utterance, The only thing in the output JSON is null. and in the input, the proper intent wasn't even being called. I have not seen a problem similar to mine on the website, I've looked high and low. Any help or feedback is appreciated.
Use predefined AMAZON.NUMBER as the slot type for phoneNumber.
While testing numbers in Alexa Test Simulator, represent them as words
Ex: the phone number is nine eight seven six five four three two one
zero
And for abbreviations use period "."
Ex: The code is a.w.e.
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Hi we have a chatbot which is developed using bot framework and integrated in Webchat. In this choice prompt display is not correct. At some time it will display as buttons sometimes not. What may be the issue?
This is by design defaulting to ListStyle.auto as can be seen in the ChoicePrompt class here. The ChoicePrompt class extends the Prompt class which, if no prompt style (inline, list, suggest action, hero card, or none) is supplied, then it defaults to calling ChoiceFactory.forChannel(). This method runs an algorithm that checks a variety of factors to determine the best style for the given channel.
The forChannel() method checks, among other things, the number of choices included and the length of each choice title. If the title's length is too long, limited to 20 characters (ref here), and the number of choices is over 3 (ref here), then default to a list.
This is what is happening to you. However, you can overwrite this by simply passing in the style property in the prompt, like so:
async choiceStep(stepContext) {
const choices = ['Hello', 'No soup for you!', 'Execute Order 66', 'You shall not pass!', 'Make it so, number 1', "You can't handle the truth!"]; // , `${ Number(66) }`];
return await stepContext.prompt(CHOICE_DIALOG_SUB_PROMPT, {
prompt: "Choose and option ,eh?",
choices: ChoiceFactory.toChoices(choices),
style: ListStyle.suggestedAction
});
}
Is there a way to have a paragraph of text get spit out when you have a certain input, from say a google questionnaire?
And make it so you could have say 5 inputs, and it would spit out 5 paragraphs of information, into one document?
For example:
If someone fills out a questionnaire where the first question is year of birth, the tool would spit out the first paragraph with a description of what the year they were born was like.
Second question would be their birth country, the tool would place a paragraph of text about their birth country into the document.
etc etc
Many thanks in advance for any help
It is possible to create documents using a specific criteria based in form responses. I created the following sample script using Google Apps Script so you can get the idea:
function docCreation() {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActive().getSheetByName("Form Responses 1");
var range = ss.getDataRange();
var values = range.getValues().reverse(); //reverses the array to get the last value in the first position
var doc = DocumentApp.create("Testing doc"); // You can change the name to match a username or any other variable instead
switch (getMonth(values[0][1].toString())) {
case 'Aug':
doc.getBody().appendParagraph("This is a sample body for August");
break;
case 'Jul':
doc.getBody().appendParagraph("This is a sample body for July");
break;
}
}
// Second function that returns the month value of the date introduced by the user
// I separated it because it is not that relevant to the main goal
function getMonth(val){
var month = val.split(" ");
return month[1];
}
It is a very simple script that checks if the month of the date introduced by the user is August or July, and if so, it creates a doc with a simple text as paragraph.
The script is bounded to the Google Sheet of the form responses and you can create a trigger so that every time a user fills out the form, the script starts running to create the needed documents. Now as I mentioned, this is just a sample, and the logic and docs format would depend on your specific needs and usage.
References:
Class Body
Create document
I`m currently trying to build up a chatbot/agent with dialogflow and have honestly no knowledge about anything in the programming business/IT stuff. I´m a student who had a guestlecture where we were shown how to create Chatbots haha. But I was interested and sat down and tried to create one for my work. A simple bot that tells the customer about the opening times and gives out some information to save us some phone calls. So far so good. I want to include the function to book a table and my problem is the following:
I´ve read many questions about changing the date and time format to receive a format like "4pm on Thursday" instead of "2020-12-26T16:00:00+01:00".
So as I said I have no clue so far how the change the code to get a different output so my question would be if you could tell me where exactly I have to do that or where I can find a solution for that. Don´t get me wrong I´d love to know how to do it so yeah I´d be so happy if you could save that christmas present :)
Best regards
Mo
So, your question is vague and lacks details.
If you want to convert "2020-12-26T16:00:00+01:00" to "4pm on Thursday" in your local time here are helper functions to achieve that:
function convertParametersDateTime(date, time){
return new Date(Date.parse(date.split('T')[0] + 'T' + time.split('T')[1].split('+')[0]));
}
// A helper function that adds the integer value of 'hoursToAdd' to the Date instance 'dateObj' and return a new Data instance.
function addHours(dateObj, hoursToAdd){
return new Date(new Date(dateObj).setHours(dateObj.getHours() + hoursToAdd));
}
// A helper funciton that converts the Date instance 'dateObj' into a string that represents this time in English.
function getLocaleTimeString(dateObj){
return dateObj.toLocaleTimeString('en-US', {hour: 'numeric', hour12: true});
}
// A helper dunction that converts the Date instance 'dateObj' into a string that represents this date in English
function getLocaleDateString(dateObj){
return dateObj.toLocaleDateString('en-US', {weekday: 'long', month: 'long', day: 'numeric'});
}
Those are the helper functions. You have to call them inside the Fulfillment function for your intent. Here's a very simple example:
function makeAppointment (agent) {
// Use the Dialogflow's date and time parameters to create Javascript Date instances, 'dateTimeStart' and 'dateTimeEnd',
// which are used to specify the appointment's time.
const dateTimeStart = convertParametersDateTime(agent.parameters.date, agent.parameters.time);
const dateTimeEnd = addHours(dateTimeStart, appointmentDuration);
const appointmentTimeString = getLocaleTimeString(dateTimeStart);
const appointmentDateString = getLocaleDateString(dateTimeStart);
agent.add(`Here's the summary of your reservation:\nDate&Time: ${appointmentDateString} at ${appointmentTimeString}`);
}
The codes might include some syntax errors. Those functions give what you are looking for but you would have to adjust them according to your needs.
I am writing a Bixby capsule and one of the inputs is street address.
One method that I have tried is creating the following structure:
structure (FullAddress) {
description (Address of a house)
property (addressNumber) {
type (geo.StreetNumber)
min (Required)
description (Address Number)
}
property (addressStreet) {
type (geo.StreetName)
min (Required)
description (Street Name)
}
property (addressSuffix) {
type (geo.StreetSuffix)
min (Required)
description (Street Name)
}
}
with a constructor action to put the 3 inputs together.
I have seen that given an address 19 Fake Fields Street the geo.StreetName typed input sometimes is able to understand Fake Fields and sometimes just Fake and drops Fields.
Also Bixby's speech to text sometimes hears app or have instead of ave for the geo.StreetSuffix value which makes it prompt the user for a suffix.
Is there a way to get Bixby to understand a street address with a little more accuracy?
Basically you need more training examples, which include 2 or 3 words as street names. Try to have at least 3 examples with xxx fakexxx fields street, and test in simulator the utterance yyy fakeyyy fields street to see if Bixby can capture fields as part of the address name. The goal here is to train Bixby to learn that there might be 2 or even 3 words ahead of addressSuffix. After that you can try utterance zzz fakezzz creek street without ever using creek in the training to confirm Bixby not just learned fields. Please read more in this article.
There is no easy way when come to speech recognition. You can include a vocab model to force "app" to be "ave", but what if user truly want say the word app or have? I would think the user can type ave or blvd, but need to say the word avenue instead of ave, and boulevard instead of blvd.
Another alternative is to use the viv.geo.SearchTerm in training and viv.geo.NamedPoint in your action. This let a user say something incomplete like "1 Market Street, California" and Bixby will use a HERE maps search to find this in San Francisco.
To use, setup a NamedPoint concept (after importing viv.geo)
structure (InputAddress) {
role-of (geo.NamedPoint)
}
Then in your action, you can do something like:
input (namedPoint) {
type (InputAddress)
min (Required) max (One)
default-select {
with-learning
with-rule {
select-first
}
}
}
In this example, using learning and select-first will automatically select the first address. Without this, Bixby will autosuggest addresses.
namedPoint will then be passed to your endpoint and you can parse as needed.
In training, use geo.SearchTerm - for example:
[g:GetAddressAction] My address is {[g:InputAddress] (665 Clyde Ave Mountain View California)[v:geo.SearchTerm]}
or for a prompt, you could use:
[g:GetAddressAction:continue:InputAddress] {[g:InputAddress] (60 S Market)[v:geo.SearchTerm]}
You can get a more fully formatted address by letting Bixby handle it by using the viv.geo.ResolveAddressByPlaceID goal. Here is a complete action using NamedPoint and ResolveAddressByPlaceID. Note the links to the relevant docs in comments
action (GetAddressAction) {
type(Search)
description (Get Address)
collect {
// See https://bixbydevelopers.com/dev/docs/dev-guide/developers/library.geo#using-searchterm - used in training
// and https://bixbydevelopers.com/dev/docs/dev-guide/developers/library.geo#namedpoint - used below and for computed-input
input (namedPoint) {
type (InputAddress)
min (Required) max (One)
default-select {
with-learning
with-rule {
select-first
}
}
// hidden - Hide if all you need is address
}
computed-input (address){
type (geo.Address)
min (Optional) max (One)
compute {
intent {
goal: viv.geo.ResolveAddressByPlaceID
value: $expr(namedPoint.placeID)
}
}
}
}
output (geo.Address)
}
I have a function that is meant to remove items from a Collection if a certain field does not pass a validation check (either email or phone, but that's not important in this context). Problem is that a regular expression is relatively slow, and I have lists of 1 million+ items.
My function
public HashSet<ListItemModel> RemoveInvalid(HashSet<ListItemModel> listItems)
{
string pattern = (this.phoneOrEmail == "email")//phoneOrEmail is set via config file
?
//RFC 5322 compliant email regex. see http://www.regular-expressions.info/email.html
#"[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+(?:\.[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+)*#(?:[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?\.)+[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?"
:
//north-american phone number regex. see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12101125/regex-to-allow-only-digits-hypens-space-parentheses-and-should-end-with-a-dig
#"(?:\d{3}(?:\d{7}|\-\d{3}\-\d{4}))|(?:\(\d{3}\)(?:\-\d{3}\-)|(?: \d{3} )\d{4})";
Regex re = new Regex(pattern);
if (phoneOrEmail == "email")
{
return new HashSet<ListItemModel>(listItems.Where(x => re.IsMatch(x.Email,0)));
}
else
{
return new HashSet<ListItemModel>(listItems.Where(x => re.IsMatch(x.Tel, 0)));
}
}
This takes way too long to execute. Is there a faster way of returning a subset that contains only valid emails/phone numbers?
I need to come up with something that is lightning quick. My other operations usually take only a couple of seconds on 700k+ items, but this method is taking forever and I hate that. I will be experimenting with a series of LINQ .Contains(x,y,z) checks, but in the meantime, I'd like some input from people who are smarter than me.