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....