Alexa for Business customers can now create and publish private Alexa skills to their organization in minutes without writing a single line of code.

Acoustic watermarking, which identifies audio signals through noise patterns imperceptible to humans, breaks down when signals are broadcast and re-captured by microphones. A new Alexa system is the first to solve this problem in real time, to prevent false device wakes and aid echo cancellation.

Interaktive Geschichten lassen den Zuhörer Einfluss auf die Handlung nehmen. Die so genannten Spielbücher gibt es schon seit den 60er Jahren, haben Ende der 80er Jahre aber an Popularität verloren. Mit Alexa kommen interaktive Geschichten nun wieder zurück.

The Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) Command-Line Interface (CLI) makes it easier to manage your Alexa skill throughout its lifecycle. The post describes how I automated the ASK CLI to sync my Alexa skill's interaction model faster.

Alexa Skill Blueprintsを使って、自分らしいスキルを作って頂けるようになりました。Blueprintsの使い方はとても簡単。特別なプログラミングの知識は必要ありません。様々な種類のテンプレートの中から好きなものを選択し、空欄を埋めたら、数分でスキルは完成。お持ちのAlexa搭載デバイスですぐに楽しんで頂くことができます。

Mark Cuban—Dallas Mavericks owner, Shark Tank investor, and self-made entrepreneur—shares why now is the time for developers to invest in Alexa and double down on voice. Catch the highlights of our interview with Mark.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) and Amazon commit up to $10 million each in research grants over the next three years focused on fairness in AI.

Sending notifications from applications in your mobile devices is a common feature nowadays, but what if you can send notifications from your Alexa skills to Alexa-enabled devices? Now, with the release of the ProactiveEvents API, you can send timely and relevant information to customers.

Get a recap of our live-streaming sessions from the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2019.

We want to thank everyone who participated in the Alexa Skills Challenge: Multimodal. It's been incredible to see you learning APL so quickly and with passion, and help each other during the process. After reviewing hundreds of submissions, we are excited to announce the 10 finalist skills.

Alexa Voice Service expands to Canadian French, with Sonos, Bose, Harman Kardon, Logitech, Jabra, and First Alert.

Alexa Voice Service ajoute le Français Canadien avec Sonos, Bose, Harman Kardon, Logitech, Jabra, et First Alert.

After reviewing hundreds of submissions, we are excited to share the 10 finalists of the Alexa Skills Challenge: Multimodal.

Get a recap of our live-streaming sessions from the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2019.

To produce synthetic training data for a machine-learning application where real data is scarce, Alexa scientist Rahul Gupta uses generative adversarial learning, which pits two neural nets against each other -- one trying to generate convincing fakes, the other trying to discern fake from real.