Today we welcome a community expert—Gal Shenar, founder of Stoked Skills and creator of popular skills like Escape the Room and Wordplay—to share his best practices for building premium content with in-skill purchasing.

日本語環境のスマートホームスキルAPI に新たな機能が加わりました。今回加わったのはエアコンなど、温度をコントロールすることができるデバイスのための機能です。これによりスマートホームスキルからデバイスの温度のコントロール、モードの切り替え、室温の確認などができるようになりました。

Today, we are excited to announce a new addition to the Alexa Gadgets Toolkit (Beta) – the MusicData Interface which enables you to build Bluetooth-connected gadgets that respond to Amazon Music playing on an Echo device.

Now, with the Alexa Presentation Language, you can enhance voice-first experiences using imagery, typography, and text within a skill. Follow these best practices for using graphics and text within your multimodal skill.

CES is officially a wrap for 2019. More than 100 Alexa products were announced at the four-day event, where new voice experiences spanned a variety of categories, including smart home devices, TVs, tablets, and even cars with Alexa built-in.

By compressing the huge lookup tables that list "embeddings", or vector representations of individual words, a new system can shrink neural-network models by up to 90%, with minimal effect on accuracy.

Many people have asked us where to start with designing an Alexa skill, and we think we’ve found a great method that anyone can use to design a voice experience, from ideation to validation.

Get a deep dive on our new multimodal sample skill called Space Explorer. We’ll walk you through how we built the interaction model using the Alexa Presentation Language.

As Alexa expands to more countries and languages, you have more opportunities to make your skills available to a growing audience around the world. If you're ready to take your skill global, you'll first want to consider the best way to localize, or internationalize, the experience.

The Consumer Electronics Show starts tomorrow, January 8, in Las Vegas. More than 180,000 people from over 155 countries will be in attendance showcasing the latest in consumer technologies.

La mayoría de las skills de Alexa enviadas para certificación se topan con una serie de problemas comunes donde las frases de ejemplo incorrectas son la razón más frecuente. Para ayudarte a evitar este problema hacemos un repaso de los requisitos y mejores prácticas para crear las frases de ejemplo.

If you have published a monetized skill, ensure you optimize your upsell strategy to help drive more customers to your premium content.

If you have already built multimodal Alexa skills using the Display Directive interface, you can still use the Alexa Presentation Language (APL) to create similar displays of those templates. Here's a quick overview of how you can migrate your display templates over to APL.

AWS Training and Certification is now offering a new AWS Certified Alexa Skill Builder – Specialty beta exam and four self-paced, digital training courses to help you enhance your voice design skills.

Get a deep dive on our new sample skill called Space Explorer. We’ll walk you through the skill experience and share best practices for building voice-first visual experiences with the Alexa Presentation Language.