It’s official – Amazon Prime Day is July 15 and 16. To create a great first impression with new customers, put your best skill forward and make sure it’s in tip-top shape for Prime Day.

For decades, viewers of top-rated TV quiz show Jeopardy! have shouted answers to trivia questions from their couches. Now Sony Pictures Television is leveraging voice as a valuable channel to enhance the customer experience and further grow their brand.

Starting today, you can access more than 2,500 new sound clips on the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) Sound Library to build rich and engaging skill experiences that delight your customers.

Write great prompts for Alexa by crafting precise responses and using built-in slot types.

Estamos encantados de presentarte nuestro nuevo curso autodidacta de desarrollo de skills: "Feliz Cumpleaños: Construye una Skill de Alexa Atractiva". Este curso gratuito ofrece una guía paso a paso de construcción de una skill Alexa de calidad desde el principio hasta el final ¡No te lo pierdas!

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What's new in the Alexa Skills Kit for May 2019? Read our release roundup blog to find out.

As part of this preview, developers can build premium kid skills for the US Alexa Skills Store using in-skill purchasing (ISP).

In this example skill, we look at one of the most popular methods you can use to call an external API through your Alexa skill using the “Requests” library in Python.

We recently launched dynamic entities, which can help you personalize Alexa skill experiences by adapting your interaction model at run time without edits, builds, or re-certification. Here are some use cases where you can leverage dynamic entities.

John Kelvie—co-founder and CEO of Bespoken—shares some best practices for testing Alexa skills to ensure you deliver a high-quality voice experience.

Build dialogs that feel natural, faster and with less code using Alexa Conversations.

When developing your first Alexa skill, issues can arise in areas that you don't expect. Luckily, many of the issues that new skill developers face boil down to some simple misconfigurations that are relatively easy to resolve.

A solutions developer, Stuart Pocklington never imagined he would find a career in voice. Now with a skill that won the grand prize in the Alexa Skills Challenge: Multimodal, he's leaning into his passion for voice development and building a voice business.

With the announcement of the new Echo Show 5, we are expanding the range of multimodal devices that the Alexa Presentation Language (APL) supports to help you reach more customers with your voice-first visual skill experiences.