Once you’ve published your Alexa skill, it’s time to spread the word about it. Sharing your skills is a great way to promote it and expand its reach to potential new users.

APIs are designed for communication between computer systems, which means they don't often translate into a natural conversational interface. Simply put, it's not enough to wrap voice around your API calls. Here are some tips to make the experience more natural.

When building skills, it is incredibly important to build high-quality experiences. Users will not come back if a skill does not open or fails quietly halfway through. And we may not be aware of any problems until a user writes a one-star review. Testing and automation are the solution.

Increase engagement with your skills through continuous improvement and maintenance. See how we track engagement of the Dev Tips skill, then create custom slots based on user activity.

If you are creating skills specific to your business or on behalf of an organization, you can choose to publish skills privately to an Alexa for Business account.

Mit Echo Spot erhalten Nutzer ein kompaktes Gerät, dass Sprache mit einem interaktiven Touch-Bildschirm kombiniert. Dies verschafft Entwicklern ganz neue Möglichkeiten, um multimodale Inhalte zu erstellen, die zusätzlich zur Sprache auch durch grafische Inhalte begeistern.

As you create more skills, you can add advanced features to deliver a more conversational experience to your users. We recently updated the decision tree sample skill to use dialog management and entity resolution.

When building conversational user interfaces, it’s important to think about continued engagement and high-quality interactions. In this 2-part blog series, we tear down a skill called Pet Match to show you the ins and outs of dialog management and entity resolution.

Our final post in the resource roundup series features top tips and tutorials for building multimodal skills for Echo Show and Echo Spot. 

When building conversational user interfaces, it’s important to think about continued engagement and high-quality interactions. In this 2-part blog series, we tear down a skill called Pet Match to show you the ins and outs of dialog management and entity resolution.

Here are some tips for designing multimodal, voice-first experiences that prove engaging across all Alexa-enabled devices.

Our next installment of the resource roundup series features top tutorials and documentation we released last year for smart home skills. Reference these resources as you start building new smart home experiences for your customers.

We're excited to introduce a new series of guides to help you build a voice-forward product that customers will love. These new resources can help you navigate some areas where developers have asked for more help.

For developers who are ready to tackle advanced design techniques and build more sophisticated Alexa skills, check out our latest roundup of resources.

As customers give and receive new Alexa-enabled devices around the holidays, you may experience an increase in skill usage during the holidays. It’s important to scale your backend to prepare such traffic spikes.