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Prompt - Amazon Lex V1

End of support notice: On September 15, 2025, AWS will discontinue support for Amazon Lex V1. After September 15, 2025, you will no longer be able to access the Amazon Lex V1 console or Amazon Lex V1 resources. If you are using Amazon Lex V2, refer to the Amazon Lex V2 guide instead. .

End of support notice: On September 15, 2025, AWS will discontinue support for Amazon Lex V1. After September 15, 2025, you will no longer be able to access the Amazon Lex V1 console or Amazon Lex V1 resources. If you are using Amazon Lex V2, refer to the Amazon Lex V2 guide instead. .

Obtains information from the user. To define a prompt, provide one or more messages and specify the number of attempts to get information from the user. If you provide more than one message, Amazon Lex chooses one of the messages to use to prompt the user. For more information, see Amazon Lex: How It Works.

Contents

maxAttempts

The number of times to prompt the user for information.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 1. Maximum value of 5.

Required: Yes

messages

An array of objects, each of which provides a message string and its type. You can specify the message string in plain text or in Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML).

Type: Array of Message objects

Array Members: Minimum number of 1 item. Maximum number of 15 items.

Required: Yes

responseCard

A response card. Amazon Lex uses this prompt at runtime, in the PostText API response. It substitutes session attributes and slot values for placeholders in the response card. For more information, see Using a Response Card.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 50000.

Required: No

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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