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I encountered many of the same roadblocks for submitting a skill. I found this checklist helpful to reduce the number of submissions. https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-sk...

Yes this is very useful for this. Thank you for the link!

Funny, I just tried making an alexa skill the other day so this is appropriate. How did you get around the restriction on the types of utterances you can do? It seems like with this type of app you would need to use AMAZON.Literal but they took that out for (security?) reasons. I saw that you effectively have placeholder text in your slot definitions, is alexa 'loose' enough with utterances to let you say almost any phrase?

I hope that my post can help you then! It seems as if with the custom slot type, I was able to create my own slot type for each of the things I needed. Then I gave it some sample inputs for that type and I tried making it general but covering different types of inputs (ones with numbers, symbols etc). Here is a link to my IntentSchema.json file to see how I made the intents: https://github.com/acucciniello/alexa-open-doc/blob/master/s.... Here is a link to folder containing the slot type definition files: https://github.com/acucciniello/alexa-open-doc/tree/master/s....

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Publishing an Amazon Echo Skill