We’re excited to announce a new video training series from A Cloud Guru on Alexa skill development. The free training series walks new developers and non-developers through how to build Alexa skills from start to finish.

We are excited to announce that Alexa now supports kid skills in Australia and New Zealand. Aussie and Kiwi developers can now use the Australia and New Zealand Alexa Skills Kit to create skills that educate, entertain, and engage kids.

The ASK sound library makes it easy for you to create an engaging customer experience by adding unique sounds to your skill. The library provides hundreds of sounds from 14 categories including ambiance, cartoon, home, nature, and transportation, among others.