We are thrilled to announce the LEGO MINDSTORMS Voice Challenge: Powered by Alexa – an opportunity for Alexa developers, LEGO MINDSTORMS enthusiasts, and creators around the world to explore and build the future of voice-based experiences through construction and robotics play.

Theoretical analysis shows how to efficiently search a large space of possible neural architectures, to identify the one that offers optimal performance.

With in-skill purchasing, you can build a business on Alexa and make money with your skills. The first step in creating a premium experience is to find a reasonable use case, that brings value to your customers. In this blog post, we have summarized some inspirational use cases for you.

Welcome to Part 1 in our series on designing skills with in-skill purchasing (ISP)! Today we’ll explore the different types of in-skill purchases, how they might unlock new experiences for customers, and imagine how we might implement them.

Data set includes more than 230,000 dialogue turns, most of which are annotated to indicate the sources of their factual assertions.

Treating a conversation as a text, and dialogue state tracking as answering questions about the text, enables an 11.75% improvement in accuracy over the best-performing prior system.

Heizung und Klimaanlage werden mit Informationen aus dem Internet immer smarter. In diesem Blogartikel erzählen die Entwickler der Firma tado°, wie sie mit Hilfe ihres Alexa Skills eine komfortable Smart Home-Steuerung für ihre Kunden anbieten.

何度でも使いたくなるような魅力あふれるAlexaスキル開発の場をご提供することを目的に開催されたAlexa Developer スキルアワード2019の受賞者を発表いたします。日本での開発者向けコンテストとして２回目の今回は、応募作品がスキルストアに公開されていることが条件となり、昨年と比べて応募のハードルが上がりましたが、5月9日～8月25日の応募期間内に100件を超えるご応募をいただきました。スキルを開発いただいた全ての開発者の皆様に、心から感謝いたします。

Want to start building with Custom Interfaces, but don’t know where to start? To demonstrate the process for building a prototype, we created an Alexa-connected musical keyboard using the Alexa Gadgets Toolkit.

Today, Amazon announced version 2.0 of the Alexa Auto SDK, which now includes a full-suite of offline, in addition to online, functionality for accessing Alexa in the car, including: music and radio, search and navigation, calling and messaging, and car control.

When a developer wants to link the Alexa back end to an external back end that requires authentication, account linking provides a secure way to do that. However, some skill types require the user to mutually link accounts so that skills can send proactive updates to the Alexa back end. Learn how.

We’re thrilled to announce the Alexa Skills Challenge: In-Skill Purchasing with Devpost, an opportunity to invent the future of premium voice content and compete for cash prizes.

私たちはAlexaスキルチャレンジ：スキル内課金（ISP）wtih Devpost の開催を発表することをうれしく思います。プレミアム音声コンテンツの未来へのイノベーションを行う機会です。

Research spans the five core areas of Alexa functionality, as well as more-general questions in machine learning.

What's new in the Alexa Skills Kit for August 2019? Read our release roundup blog to find out.