An intent determines what your user is trying to accomplish. Utterances are the various ways your users might express the intent. You can have multiple utterances mapped to one intent. For example, for an intent called RCScheduler, you might specify a number of utterances like the following:
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The below screenshot is an example of the event name used for the Free text in Single input control of flow studio.
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Creating a list (slot)
A slot is a variable in curly brackets { } that helps the voice assistant understand information about the request. For example, whether you ask “Alexa: What is the weather in Boston?” or “Alexa: What is the weather in New York?”, the intent you write (what is the weather in {CityName}) interprets the question using slots to respond to either request: “The weather in {CityName} is {getCityWeather}”.
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