[Enhancment] Do you want to reply?

[Dil3mm4]

Ideally, at least for 1o1 convos (don't think it would have any kind of benefit for groups), at the end of the message reading function, it could be implemented a "Do you want to reply?" question, allowing the user to dictate a reply.

If you can reference where the pow-wow for the reading func is, I can look into that, as said, totally 0 experience with Skills (for now 😝)

[LorenzHW]

Telegram Connect is already the third version I implemented for Alexa. In the second version I already had that feature. Sending messages with Alexa is a bit of pain, because Amazon does not provide the full transcript of what the microphone is recording. Developers always utilize slots to get the input from the user. As a result of this, sending long messages via Alexa does not work that well. However, sending short messages like: "Yes" or "No" or "On my way" works perfectly fine.

So I also agree that a reply feature would be nice to have but should be optional to the user. So what I have in mind is like an option intent: User: Open options. Alexa: Do you want to turn on the reply feature? User: Yes/No

And then the next time a message is read, the user has the possibility to reply if he answered with Yes.

Everything related to reading messages is inside lambda/skill/intents/message_intent.py. You can use lambda/skill_test/message_intent/test_message.py as well to execute the intent.

Edit: I pushed the old skill with the reply feature to a separate branch here.