AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell
Command Reference

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Synopsis

Calls the Amazon Lex PostContent API operation.

Syntax

Send-LEXContent
-Accept <String>
-BotAlias <String>
-BotName <String>
-ContentType <String>
-InputStream <Object>
-RequestAttribute <String>
-SessionAttribute <String>
-UserId <String>
-Select <String>

Description

Sends user input (text or speech) to Amazon Lex. Clients use this API to send text and audio requests to Amazon Lex at runtime. Amazon Lex interprets the user input using the machine learning model that it built for the bot. The PostContent operation supports audio input at 8kHz and 16kHz. You can use 8kHz audio to achieve higher speech recognition accuracy in telephone audio applications. In response, Amazon Lex returns the next message to convey to the user. Consider the following example messages:
  • For a user input "I would like a pizza," Amazon Lex might return a response with a message eliciting slot data (for example, PizzaSize): "What size pizza would you like?".
  • After the user provides all of the pizza order information, Amazon Lex might return a response with a message to get user confirmation: "Order the pizza?".
  • After the user replies "Yes" to the confirmation prompt, Amazon Lex might return a conclusion statement: "Thank you, your cheese pizza has been ordered.".
Not all Amazon Lex messages require a response from the user. For example, conclusion statements do not require a response. Some messages require only a yes or no response. In addition to the message, Amazon Lex provides additional context about the message in the response that you can use to enhance client behavior, such as displaying the appropriate client user interface. Consider the following examples:
  • If the message is to elicit slot data, Amazon Lex returns the following context information:
    • x-amz-lex-dialog-state header set to ElicitSlot
    • x-amz-lex-intent-name header set to the intent name in the current context
    • x-amz-lex-slot-to-elicit header set to the slot name for which the message is eliciting information
    • x-amz-lex-slots header set to a map of slots configured for the intent with their current values
  • If the message is a confirmation prompt, the x-amz-lex-dialog-state header is set to Confirmation and the x-amz-lex-slot-to-elicit header is omitted.
  • If the message is a clarification prompt configured for the intent, indicating that the user intent is not understood, the x-amz-dialog-state header is set to ElicitIntent and the x-amz-slot-to-elicit header is omitted.
In addition, Amazon Lex also returns your application-specific sessionAttributes. For more information, see Managing Conversation Context.

Parameters

-Accept <String>
You pass this value as the Accept HTTP header. The message Amazon Lex returns in the response can be either text or speech based on the Accept HTTP header value in the request.
  • If the value is text/plain; charset=utf-8, Amazon Lex returns text in the response.
  • If the value begins with audio/, Amazon Lex returns speech in the response. Amazon Lex uses Amazon Polly to generate the speech (using the configuration you specified in the Accept header). For example, if you specify audio/mpeg as the value, Amazon Lex returns speech in the MPEG format.
  • If the value is audio/pcm, the speech returned is audio/pcm in 16-bit, little endian format.
  • The following are the accepted values:
    • audio/mpeg
    • audio/ogg
    • audio/pcm
    • text/plain; charset=utf-8
    • audio/* (defaults to mpeg)
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-BotAlias <String>
Alias of the Amazon Lex bot.
Required?True
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-BotName <String>
Name of the Amazon Lex bot.
Required?True
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-ContentType <String>
You pass this value as the Content-Type HTTP header. Indicates the audio format or text. The header value must start with one of the following prefixes:
  • PCM format, audio data must be in little-endian byte order.
    • audio/l16; rate=16000; channels=1
    • audio/x-l16; sample-rate=16000; channel-count=1
    • audio/lpcm; sample-rate=8000; sample-size-bits=16; channel-count=1; is-big-endian=false
  • Opus format
    • audio/x-cbr-opus-with-preamble; preamble-size=0; bit-rate=256000; frame-size-milliseconds=4
  • Text format
    • text/plain; charset=utf-8
Required?True
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-InputStream <Object>
User input in PCM or Opus audio format or text format as described in the Content-Type HTTP header. You can stream audio data to Amazon Lex or you can create a local buffer that captures all of the audio data before sending. In general, you get better performance if you stream audio data rather than buffering the data locally.The cmdlet accepts a parameter of type string, string[], System.IO.FileInfo or System.IO.Stream.
Required?True
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-RequestAttribute <String>
You pass this value as the x-amz-lex-request-attributes HTTP header.Request-specific information passed between Amazon Lex and a client application. The value must be a JSON serialized and base64 encoded map with string keys and values. The total size of the requestAttributes and sessionAttributes headers is limited to 12 KB.The namespace x-amz-lex: is reserved for special attributes. Don't create any request attributes with the prefix x-amz-lex:.For more information, see Setting Request Attributes.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesRequestAttributes
-Select <String>
Use the -Select parameter to control the cmdlet output. The default value is '*'. Specifying -Select '*' will result in the cmdlet returning the whole service response (Amazon.Lex.Model.PostContentResponse). Specifying the name of a property of type Amazon.Lex.Model.PostContentResponse will result in that property being returned. Specifying -Select '^ParameterName' will result in the cmdlet returning the selected cmdlet parameter value.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-SessionAttribute <String>
You pass this value as the x-amz-lex-session-attributes HTTP header.Application-specific information passed between Amazon Lex and a client application. The value must be a JSON serialized and base64 encoded map with string keys and values. The total size of the sessionAttributes and requestAttributes headers is limited to 12 KB.For more information, see Setting Session Attributes.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesSessionAttributes
-UserId <String>
The ID of the client application user. Amazon Lex uses this to identify a user's conversation with your bot. At runtime, each request must contain the userID field.To decide the user ID to use for your application, consider the following factors.
  • The userID field must not contain any personally identifiable information of the user, for example, name, personal identification numbers, or other end user personal information.
  • If you want a user to start a conversation on one device and continue on another device, use a user-specific identifier.
  • If you want the same user to be able to have two independent conversations on two different devices, choose a device-specific identifier.
  • A user can't have two independent conversations with two different versions of the same bot. For example, a user can't have a conversation with the PROD and BETA versions of the same bot. If you anticipate that a user will need to have conversation with two different versions, for example, while testing, include the bot alias in the user ID to separate the two conversations.
Required?True
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)

Common Credential and Region Parameters

-AccessKey <String>
The AWS access key for the user account. This can be a temporary access key if the corresponding session token is supplied to the -SessionToken parameter.
Required? False
Position? Named
Accept pipeline input? True (ByPropertyName)
Aliases AK
-Credential <AWSCredentials>
An AWSCredentials object instance containing access and secret key information, and optionally a token for session-based credentials.
Required? False
Position? Named
Accept pipeline input? True (ByPropertyName)
-ProfileLocation <String>

Used to specify the name and location of the ini-format credential file (shared with the AWS CLI and other AWS SDKs)

If this optional parameter is omitted this cmdlet will search the encrypted credential file used by the AWS SDK for .NET and AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio first. If the profile is not found then the cmdlet will search in the ini-format credential file at the default location: (user's home directory)\.aws\credentials. Note that the encrypted credential file is not supported on all platforms. It will be skipped when searching for profiles on Windows Nano Server, Mac, and Linux platforms.

If this parameter is specified then this cmdlet will only search the ini-format credential file at the location given.

As the current folder can vary in a shell or during script execution it is advised that you use specify a fully qualified path instead of a relative path.

Required? False
Position? Named
Accept pipeline input? True (ByPropertyName)
Aliases AWSProfilesLocation, ProfilesLocation
-ProfileName <String>
The user-defined name of an AWS credentials or SAML-based role profile containing credential information. The profile is expected to be found in the secure credential file shared with the AWS SDK for .NET and AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio. You can also specify the name of a profile stored in the .ini-format credential file used with the AWS CLI and other AWS SDKs.
Required? False
Position? Named
Accept pipeline input? True (ByPropertyName)
Aliases AWSProfileName, StoredCredentials
-NetworkCredential <PSCredential>
Used with SAML-based authentication when ProfileName references a SAML role profile. Contains the network credentials to be supplied during authentication with the configured identity provider's endpoint. This parameter is not required if the user's default network identity can or should be used during authentication.
Required? False
Position? Named
Accept pipeline input? True (ByPropertyName)
-SecretKey <String>
The AWS secret key for the user account. This can be a temporary secret key if the corresponding session token is supplied to the -SessionToken parameter.
Required? False
Position? Named
Accept pipeline input? True (ByPropertyName)
Aliases SecretAccessKey, SK
-SessionToken <String>
The session token if the access and secret keys are temporary session-based credentials.
Required? False
Position? Named
Accept pipeline input? True (ByPropertyName)
Aliases ST
-Region <String>
The system name of the AWS region in which the operation should be invoked. For example, us-east-1, eu-west-1 etc.
Required? False
Position? Named
Accept pipeline input? True (ByPropertyName)
Aliases RegionToCall
-EndpointUrl <String>

The endpoint to make the call against.

Note: This parameter is primarily for internal AWS use and is not required/should not be specified for normal usage. The cmdlets normally determine which endpoint to call based on the region specified to the -Region parameter or set as default in the shell (via Set-DefaultAWSRegion). Only specify this parameter if you must direct the call to a specific custom endpoint.

Required? False
Position? Named
Accept pipeline input? True (ByPropertyName)

Inputs

This cmdlet does not accept pipeline input.

Outputs

Amazon.Lex.Model.PostContentResponse
This cmdlet returns an Amazon.Lex.Model.PostContentResponse object containing multiple properties. The object can also be referenced from properties attached to the cmdlet entry in the $AWSHistory stack.
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Supported Version

AWS Tools for PowerShell: 2.x.y.z