David Markey built his first custom skill in only one day. Within a month of launching his second skill, he had earned almost $1,500 in Alexa Developer Rewards.

Amazon today introduced Alexa Skill Blueprints, a new way to create your own personalized skills and responses for Alexa. Using a set of easy-to-use templates, anyone can create customized experiences for Alexa within minutes.

This resource roundup features our top blog posts on dialog management to help you build conversational Alexa skills.

You can use v2 of the Alexa SDK for Node.js to develop skills faster and reduce complexity in your code.

When a customer enables your Alexa skill, your skill can use the Device Address API to request permission from the customer to use address data associated with their Alexa device. In this skill recipe, we'll walk through how you can use address data to enhance the voice experience.

Today, we are happy to announce an important update to the AudioPlayer interface to help you enhance the visuals for your audio skills for Echo Show and Echo Spot. Now you can send additional metadata about the playing track with the Play directive.

It can be easy to come up with an invocation name for your Alexa skill, but it’s more important to come up with a name that’s memorable. Keep these best practices in mind when creating your invocation name and sample utterances for your Alexa skill.

Check out what happened on Twitch this week with the Amazon Alexa team.

The new example phrase validation and Skill Validation API help you to improve your skill’s example phrases and avoid related certification errors. 

Now with Echo Show and Echo Spot, developers have even more opportunities to enhance their Alexa skills. Check out our new skill template for quiz and dictionary skills for Echo Show and Echo Spot.

The first step in providing a great customer experience with an Alexa-enabled device is wake word detection. Next week, at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Amazon scientists will present two new techniques that improve wake word performance.

This post will walk through how to accomplish dynamic slot elicitation by overriding predefined prompts and elicited slots with dialog management, using a skill that recommends products as the example.

Using the new Intent Request History API, you can improve the customer experience by understanding how your customers are engaging with your skill.

Aftering building with the new Gadgets Skill API (beta), I've gathered several key learnings for Alexa game skill developers. Here are some best practices to jump-start your own interactive games for Echo Buttons.

Oscar Merry may have studied aviation software in university, but it was building for voice that have made his career really soar. An Alexa Champion, Merry has already built a three-pronged career in voice and earned money through Alexa Developer Rewards.