In this skill recipe update, we look at two of the most popular methods you can use to call an external API through your Alexa skill using version 2 of the Node.js Software Development Kit.

With Amazon Pay for Alexa Skills, you can sell real-world goods and services such as tickets for movies or concerts, car pick up services, food, and more. This post will show you how to add Amazon Pay to your skill in just a few simple steps.

If your business offers a connected microwave, this blog post will help you create an easy-to-consume food preset catalog that you can associate with your microwave Alexa skill.

The combination of an autoencoder, which is trained to output the same data it takes as input, and adversarial training, which pits two neural networks against each other, confers modest performance gains but opens the door to extensive training with unannotated data. 

Today, we are excited to announce two more investments in education companies exploring integrations with Alexa – Unruly Studios and Zoobean.

We recently spoke with Tim McElreath, director of technology for mobile and emerging platforms at Discovery, to learn how Discovery is leveraging voice, explore his team’s process for building multimodal skills, and dive deep into their Food Network Alexa skill.

We’re excited to introduce our new self-paced skill-building course called Cake Walk: Build an Engaging Alexa Skill. This free course offers step-by-step guidance on how to build a high-quality Alexa skill from start to finish. Learn about the course and dive in.

Today, developers and businesses can leverage Alexa to reach customers across over 100 million Alexa-enabled devices, engage with customers, and sell products and services using in-skill purchasing (ISP) and Amazon Pay for Alexa Skills.

Amazon Alexa’s in-vehicle voice-first experience is a finalist for the Best Auto Mobility Product/Service TU-Automotive Award.

In much the same way the layout, color, and animations on a screen can impact usability, wording can signal subtle meaning to users. Learn how to write skill dialog that's focused, natural, and simple.

Text normalization is the process of converting particular words of a sentence into a standard format so that software can handle them. Breaking inputs into component parts and factoring in syntactic information reduces the error rate of a neural text normalization system by 98%.

Get a recap of all the gaming sessions shared during Alexa Live and get inspired to build engaging voice-first games.

Members of Gen Y are particularly interested in voice technology in the vehicle. Learn more about what future generations of car owners expect from voice technology in their vehicles.

Cross-lingual transfer learning improves performance of named-entity recognizer by up to 7.4% versus a system trained from scratch in the new language.

Este tutorial muestra como agregar soporte para Español de los Estados Unidos de América "Spanish (US)" a tus skills existentes. Adicionalmente, te muestra como usar el ASK (Alexa Skills Kit) para que Alexa responda en función a el modelo de lenguaje.