Newly added support for Express.js in the Node.js SDK and Jinja support in the Python SDK now make it easier to build and integrate skills. 

Earlier this month, voicebot.ai announced their Top 44 Leaders in Voice 2019. Join us in congratulating all the leaders in voice. Thanks to their innovation, dedication, and hard work, voice continues to grow as a leading technology in the world of user interfaces.

If you’re hosting your Alexa skill on AWS Lambda, debugging can be time-consuming and require log parsing. In this blog post, we’ll demonstrate how you can speed up your development process by setting up a local debugging workflow with our provided scripts and other proxy solutions.

Now you can use app-to-app account linking and the Alexa Skill Activation API to let customers link their Alexa account and enable your skill from within your mobile application.

When Amazon announced the Alexa Skills Challenge: Multimodal, Cameron Sheedy saw an opportunity to develop a rich multimodal user experience he could be really proud of. Read the story in this blog post.

Alle Skills, die im Alexa Skills Store veröffentlicht werden, müssen zuvor einen Zertifizierungsprozess durchlaufen. Die zertifizierten Skills erfüllen die Anforderungen an Sicherheit, Datenschutz, Zertifizierungs-Richtlinien, Funktionalität und die korrekte Entwicklung der Sprachoberfläche.

Read the blog to learn how Ursu created Fork On The Road, an engaging multimodal skill that helps users choose between multiple options by combining an engaging voice-first experience with three-dimensional graphics.

Voice User Interfaces (VUIs) take up more mental resources than Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs), because information is auditory and presented serially, whereas in a GUI information is visual and presented at once.

みなさまが開発されたAlexaスキルはスキルストアへの公開に当たり、Alexa審査チームが規定された要件をもとに認定審査をさせていただき、 スキルがよいユーザー体験をお届けできるよう必要に応じてフィードバックをさせていただいています。このブログではスキルを申請いただいた際に、特に改善の指摘を受けている項目について紹介します。今回は「スキル内課金」についてです。

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

Charlie Cadbury, CEO of Say It Now, has adapted alongside technology since 1999 when he sold his first website. Today, Say It Now is a group of enterprise natural language processing (NLP) experts building out conversational strategies and products alongside Fortune 500 companies.

Great Alexa skills depend on written prompts. This post covers five benchmarks your Alexa skill’s dialog should meet, and specific techniques for how you can get there.

In this tutorial, we will go over how to integrate the Reminders API into your skill to actively extend its utility without requiring customers to launch your skill.

We are excited to announce that now anyone can create and publish an Alexa skill on the Australian Alexa Skills Store using Alexa Skill Blueprints for customers in Australia and New Zealand to discover and use.

During the last three months, more than 75 agencies and tool providers in 12 countries competed across the globe in the Alexa Cup. The challenge offered an opportunity to push the boundaries of what is possible with voice. We are excited to announce the winners.