Read the blog to learn how Ursu created Fork On The Road, an engaging multimodal skill that helps users choose between multiple options by combining an engaging voice-first experience with three-dimensional graphics.

Voice User Interfaces (VUIs) take up more mental resources than Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs), because information is auditory and presented serially, whereas in a GUI information is visual and presented at once.

Based on embeddings, system suggests named entities — or "slot values" — that developers might want their skills to recognize.

みなさまが開発されたAlexaスキルはスキルストアへの公開に当たり、Alexa審査チームが規定された要件をもとに認定審査をさせていただき、 スキルがよいユーザー体験をお届けできるよう必要に応じてフィードバックをさせていただいています。このブログではスキルを申請いただいた際に、特に改善の指摘を受けている項目について紹介します。今回は「スキル内課金」についてです。

Charlie Cadbury, CEO of Say It Now, has adapted alongside technology since 1999 when he sold his first website. Today, Say It Now is a group of enterprise natural language processing (NLP) experts building out conversational strategies and products alongside Fortune 500 companies.

Great Alexa skills depend on written prompts. This post covers five benchmarks your Alexa skill’s dialog should meet, and specific techniques for how you can get there.

Two new papers explore techniques for increasing the computational efficiency and reducing the memory footprints of neural networks that process audio data.

In this tutorial, we will go over how to integrate the Reminders API into your skill to actively extend its utility without requiring customers to launch your skill.

Pooling the training data for related skills, and using it to train the skills simultaneously, improves performance for all of them.

Different Alexa services use different names for the same types of data, which makes it hard to track references across dialogues. By learning correlations between data types, a machine learning model can make better decisions about which references to track from one round of dialogue to the next.

どの分野においても、自分の専門的な知識や経験を認めてもらって差別化を図るには、認定資格が効果的です。音声の分野も例外ではありません。本日、AWS認定 「Alexaスキルビルダー – 専門知識」の日本語版が公開されました。

Mit dem neu verfügbaren Feature In-Skill Purchasing (ISP) erweitert das Entwicklerteam von Krögoor jetzt auch ihre deutschsprachigen Skills um Premium-Inhalte. Im Blogartikel teilen sie Ihre Erfahrungen mit der Community.

We are excited to announce that now anyone can create and publish an Alexa skill on the Australian Alexa Skills Store using Alexa Skill Blueprints for customers in Australia and New Zealand to discover and use.

In April, we announced new helpers in the Alexa Skills Kit SDK for Python that allow you to locally run, test, and debug your Alexa skill faster. This tutorial shows you how to set up a local Flask Server with a local DynamoDB instance for persistent storage and connect a debugger.

Most question-answering systems rely on either text search or knowledge graphs. A hybrid approach, which knits together data from multiple textual sources to produce an ad hoc knowledge graph, yields better results on complex questions.