For the full list of phrases users can say to begin interacting with your Alexa skill, see Understanding How Users
Invoke Custom Skills.
Not exact matches
Customers needed to enable both
skills, and use a slightly different phrase — «Alexa, ask Harmony to...» — when
invoking custom functions.
In contrast,
custom skills require users to
invoke a
skill by name, and result in individual
skills that aren't aware of the user's broader set of devices and services.
A
custom skill can handle any kind of request, so long as you can create the code to fulfill the request and provide appropriate data in the interaction model to let users
invoke the request.