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.

After months of hard work from Alexa developers around the world, the Alexa Skill Challenge: Multimodal has concluded. We are excited to annouce the grand prize winner and the bonus prize winners!

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.

Alexa Skill Blueprintsを使って、自分らしいスキルを作って頂けるようになりました。Blueprintsの使い方はとても簡単。特別なプログラミングの知識は必要ありません。様々な種類のテンプレートの中から好きなものを選択し、空欄を埋めたら、数分でスキルは完成。お持ちのAlexa搭載デバイスですぐに楽しんで頂くことができます。

Alexa Voice Service expands to Canadian French, with Sonos, Bose, Harman Kardon, Logitech, Jabra, and First Alert.

Alexa Voice Service ajoute le Français Canadien avec Sonos, Bose, Harman Kardon, Logitech, Jabra, et First Alert.

After reviewing hundreds of submissions, we are excited to share the 10 finalists of the Alexa Skills Challenge: Multimodal.

You can now detect when your skill is being used from an Alexa Auto vehicle or device and adapt your experience to be contextual.

We share details about six new things that we released for skill developers in February, including the ability to publish Skill Blueprints, new APIs, and several dialog management features to help you build higher-quality skills more easily.

We are excited to announce that starting today developers residing in India can start earning money through the Alexa Developer Rewards Program for highly engaging skills published to the India Alexa Skills Store.

Alexaファンドは、13週間プログラム、Alexa Accelerator, powered by Techstarsが3年目を迎えたことをお知らせします。このプログラムは、音声がテクノロジーとの対話方法を根本から改善し、Alexaに関する最高のイノベーションには、初期段階のスタートアップ企業によりもたらされるものもある、という考えに基づいています。世界中から最大10社が本プログラムの参加企業として選ばれます。

The Alexa Fund is excited to announce the third year of the Alexa Accelerator, powered by Techstars.

We share details about five new things that we released for skill developers in January, including a new feature for in-skill purchasing (ISP) and several enhancements to help you build higher-quality skills more easily.