Universal dialogue-act tagging scheme, hybrid slot-tracking system promise to improve dialogue state tracking.

Ilarna Nche is only 23 years old but already created 30 skills and runs her own voice business, Adassa Innovations.

SMAPI and CLI error responses are now more detailed and more actionable for failed operations performed in skill development.

Newly added support for Express.js in the Node.js SDK and Jinja support in the Python SDK now make it easier to build and integrate skills. 

Earlier this month, voicebot.ai announced their Top 44 Leaders in Voice 2019. Join us in congratulating all the leaders in voice. Thanks to their innovation, dedication, and hard work, voice continues to grow as a leading technology in the world of user interfaces.

Techniques include weighting training samples from out-of-domain data sets and noise contrastive estimation, which turns the calculation of massive probability distributions into simple binary decisions.

Mit dem neu verfügbaren Feature In-Skill Purchasing (ISP) erweitert Daniel Mittendorf jetzt seine deutschsprachigen Skills um Premium-Inhalte und teilt seine Erfahrungen mit der Community.

If you’re hosting your Alexa skill on AWS Lambda, debugging can be time-consuming and require log parsing. In this blog post, we’ll demonstrate how you can speed up your development process by setting up a local debugging workflow with our provided scripts and other proxy solutions.

Now you can use App-to-App account linking and the Alexa Skill Activation API to let customers link their Alexa account and enable your skill from within your mobile application.

When Amazon announced the Alexa Skills Challenge: Multimodal, Cameron Sheedy saw an opportunity to develop a rich multimodal user experience he could be really proud of. Read the story in this blog post.

Two Interspeech papers report a system that transfers prosody — inflection and rhythm — from a recorded speaker to a synthesized voice and a neural vocoder that works with any speaker.

Alle Skills, die im Alexa Skills Store veröffentlicht werden, müssen zuvor einen Zertifizierungsprozess durchlaufen. Die zertifizierten Skills erfüllen die Anforderungen an Sicherheit, Datenschutz, Zertifizierungs-Richtlinien, Funktionalität und die korrekte Entwicklung der Sprachoberfläche.

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.