Voice Glossary

Navigating the voice landscape can be hard from agents to utterances, our FAQ can help anyone learn a little more about voice.

a

Account linking

Actions console

Actions simulator

Agent

Alexa app

Alexa service / Alexa

Alexa Skills Kit

Alexa-enabled device

AWS Lambda

b

Built-in intent

c

Can fullfil intent

Card

Confirmation

Consumable purchase

Conversation

Custom interaction model

d

Default fallback intent

Default welcome intent

Dialog errors

Dialogflow

Discovery

Display template

e

Entity

Error message

Example phrase

Exit command

Explicit confirmation

Explicit invocation

h

Help message

i

Implicit invocation

Intents

Interruptions

Invocation

Invocation name

l

Low confidence errors

n

Natural language understanding

Notifications

o

One-time purchase

p

Prompt

r

Required slot

s

Sample utterance

Skill

Slot

Slot filling

Subscription

t

Text-to-Speech (TTS)

Touch interaction

Training

Training phrase

Turn

u

Utterance

v

Voice User Interface (VUI)

w

Wake word

Web service

Welcome message