In July, we announced the Alexa Skills Challenge: Tech for Good. The challenge invited developers to build Alexa skills that could have a positive impact on the environment, local communities, and the world. We’ve finally narrowed down the 10 finalists and we’re excited to share them with you.

Today, we’re excited to announce that developers can start building voice experiences, called “skills,” for French Canadian customers using the Alexa Skills Kit with the Canadian French voice model.

Today we are excited to announce skill connections (preview) for all current Alexa locales. You can use skill connections (preview) to do more for your customers – including printing and scheduling taxis and restaurants – using functionality provided by other skills.

私たちは本日、スキル間の連携をサポートする、「Skill Connections」の開発者プレビューを、Alexaがサポートする全ての国・地域を対象に開始することを発表しました。Skill Connectionsを有効にすることで、他のスキルが提供する機能が使えるようになり、単体では実現できなかった一貫したサービスをカスタマーに提供できるようになります。

The HiSilicon STB Push-to-Talk Development Kit for Amazon AVS enables STB device makers and TV operators to create new device designs with Alexa built-in and retrofit deployed STBs to support Alexa.

お客様はAlexaを通じてデバイスで音楽を聞くことを好みます。多くの場合、お客様は話しかけたデバイスと同一デバイスで音楽が再生されるようにAlexaに話しかけます。また、お客様は別の場所、もしくは同じ空間内にある別のデバイスで同時に音楽を再生させたいとも考えています。

You can use now use seven new built-in slots in all Alexa locales to save time in your development and improve the experience for your customers.

Today we are excited to announce additions to the ASK Skill Management API (SMAPI) and the ASK Command Line Interface (CLI) that provide programmatic access to the full set of skill beta testing functions available in the ASK developer console.

Alexaスキルアワード2018のファイナルステージ（決勝審査会）が9月29日、東京・目黒のアマゾンジャパン本社で開かれました。Alexaスキルアワードは、日本で初めてのAlexaスキルコンテストで、6月13日から8月27日の応募期間に365もの作品をご応募いただきました。受賞者として選ばれた方々のスキルをご紹介します。

Today, we’re excited to announce investments in three early-stage companies building Alexa-powered experiences and extending the future of conversational AI.

Alexa offers a new sales channel for brands and merchants who want to sell their products and services through their Alexa skills. Today, we are excited to announce Amazon Pay for Alexa Skills is now generally available to the UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria and France based merchants and developers.

Through Alexa Labs, you can get a sneak peek into what we’re creating and gain beta access to new projects. Learn about one of the latest projects we're cooking up for the Alexa Skills Kit to help make the skill-building process faster and easier.

We are excited to announce the release of consumables. Consumables are in-skill product that customers can purchase, use, and then purchase again.

Today we’re excited to announce a preview of a new design language and tools that make it easy to create visually rich Alexa skills for tens of millions of Alexa devices with screens.

Today, we’re excited to announce new developer tools in preview that make device setup easier for customers and let you extend voice control to any device—from the simplest wall plug to the most complex appliance—and to any feature of your device.