The open challenge for the Fact Extraction and Verification (FEVER) workshop at EMNLP involved devising adversarial examples that would stump fact verification systems trained on the FEVER data set.

We’re excited to introduce our new Alexa Skills course, "How to Design for In-Skill Purchasing". This free course outlines tips and best practices for designing a great monetized Alexa skill experience.

Synthetic-data generators provided initial training data for natural-language-understanding models in Hindi, U.S. Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese.

Alexa Developerスキルアワード2019キッズ部門を受賞した『サカナノジカン』を開発した國川雅司氏、 南島康一氏、小川麟太郎氏は、6月9日に行われたスキルアワードハッカソンで出会い、結成されたチームです。スキルアワードを通した経験や、スキル開発の工夫などを伺いました。

Starting October 8, we are expanding Alexa Voice Service capabilities by bringing the Portuguese language to customers across Brazil.

Recorded in the lab during simulated dinner parties, a new data set should aid the development of systems for separating speech signals in reverberant rooms with multiple speakers.

Alexa now supports voice interactions in Hindi in addition to other supported languages. Starting early October, we will support US Spanish and enable Multilingual Mode, which allows Alexa to switch between two languages.

Today we are excited to announce that Alexa Presentation Language (APL) is generally available.

We are excited to announce that the Alexa Connect Kit (ACK) is now generally available.

Con mucho entusiasmo anunciamos que en las proximas semanas, las skills en Español con el modelo de lenguaje: Spanish (US) o Español para los Estados Unidos, pueden ser publicadas en la tienda de Skills con compras dentro de las skill (ISP) y Recompensas Para Desarolladores. 

We’re excited to announce that you are now able to publish Spanish skills in the US and start making money with in-skill purchasing (ISP) and Alexa Developer Rewards.

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.

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.