The Alexa team is constantly inventing new ways for you to take your skills to the next level. We’re excited to showcase these inventions to developers around the world May 2 during Alexa Live, Alexa’s first online-only conference for voice developers. Learn more and register.

When you build your first Alexa skill, you’ll likely have a few questions. To help you out, we’ve compiled some of the most frequently asked questions and answers that we’ve received from developers about to build their first Alexa skills.

Learn how you can improve the underlying responsiveness of an HTTP request from an Alexa skill by speeding up how content is fetched from APIs.

In this post, we share how you can improve your skill's customer experience with a recipe that addresses this principle element of conversation: responsiveness.

A recent webinar on Alexa for Business discussed how a voice-enabled interface can create new opportunities in a workplace, from building private Alexa skills to smart enabling conference rooms. This post outlines how you can build a private Alexa skill to enable voice-powered business analytics.

We’re excited to announce our next eight cities for Alexa Dev Days, a series of free, interactive events from Amazon. Register now to reserve your spot.

If you are creating skills specific to your business or on behalf of an organization, you can choose to publish skills privately to an Alexa for Business account.

Whether you’re new to voice design or looking to brush up on voice design basics, this post highlights our favorite resources to help you on your way as you start building your first skills for Alexa.

Last month, hundreds of developers and designers from around the world filled Pier 48 in San Francisco. They had gathered to compete at the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon, a grueling 24-hour gauntlet fueled by equal parts passion and caffeine.