One certification requirement for monetized skills is the ability to keep track of your customers' inventory of consumable in-skill products. Learn how to manage product inventory in monetized skills.

We’re excited to announce that now developers can start building skills for Spanish-speaking customers in the US using the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) with the new Spanish for US voice model.

This tutorial will show you how you can add support for Spanish (US) in your existing skills. It will also show you how you can use ASK to enable Alexa to respond based on locales.

Learn how to implement in-skill purchasing in an Alexa skill using the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) Software Development Kit (SDK) for Java.

Now you can now test multi-turn conversations using the new dialog command in the ASK CLI and the updated simulation API (beta) in SMAPI.

Learn how the Beat the Intro game skill is helping media and entertainment marketing company Musicplode reach more customers, build brand awareness, and generate revenue with in-skill purchasing (ISP).

私は毎朝出勤するときに、同じコーヒーショップで緑茶ラテを買います。バリスタは過去の経験から私の欲しいものがわかっているので、入店するとすぐに注文を作り始めてくれます。注文を変えて意地悪してみようかとふと思ったりしますが、せっかく作ってくれたおいしい抹茶ラテを台無しにしてほしくはありません。

エクスペリエンスがシンプルにパーソナライズされているので、私はこの店にせっせと通い続けています。同じように、優れたAlexaスキルではパーソナライズされたユーザーエクスペリエンスを提供してくれます。ユーザーは繰り返しそのスキルを利用したいという気持ちになります。

If you have a custom Alexa skill that uses AWS Lambda as the back end, follow the steps below to create alerts using Amazon CloudWatch alarms to get notified when errors occur.

We’re excited to announce the general availability of the AWS Certified Alexa Skill Builder – Specialty certification, the industry's first and only certification that validates your ability to build, test, and publish Amazon Alexa skills.

We’re excited the 23rd Annual Webby Awards now includes a suite of ten new categories, just for voice. Meet the Alexa skills nominated and vote.

We’re excited to announce that developers can now start building voice experiences, called “skills,” for customers in Brazil using the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) with the new Portuguese for Brazil voice model.

This tutorial will show you how you can add support for the Portuguese (BR) model for your existing skills. It will also show you how you can use ASK to enable Alexa to respond based on locales.

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

In this new code deep dive series, we provide an end-to-end walkthrough of how to monetize your Alexa skill using in-skill purchasing (ISP).

さあ、Alexaで遊べるゲームを開発しましょう。さて、コーディングに入る前に、音声という文脈でスコープを決め、ゲームのアイデアを練り上げるのに役立つ原則をいくつか紹介しましょう。これから紹介する原則は、一般的なゲーム開発にも当てはまる場合があるかもしれません。ただし、ほとんどはAlexa Skills Kitを使った音声操作用ゲーム開発に特化した内容であり、Amazon Alexa音声デザインガイドに記載された音声デザインのベストプラクティスに従う必要があります。