I work at a NLI company and I have just created a skill where I have pretty much an open mic session with our Alexa Skill through the Amazon Echo. Everything works fine and I can have an open dialog with our backend knowledge base, without having to prefix anything with Alexa.
When I demo this skill, inevitably someone in the room interrupts and wants to enquire about how the NLI piece operates. If I mute the echo or don't ask it questions or answer its questions in a short period of time, the skill times out. I'm then forced to begin the interaction again but asking Alexa to start MySkillInvocation.
Question:
Is there a programmatic way to extend the timeout period when listening back from an Alexa Ask Response? Possibly even a way to programmatically pause a running skill?