Beano, the brand behind Britain’s longest-running children’s comic, prides itself on being “in the know” when it comes to kids. Check out their top tips for building skills that delight children and parents alike.

We are excited to announce the worldwide release of Alexa Settings API, which you can use to build skills that reference a customer’s preferred time zone and units of measure for distance and temperature.

We recently released version two of the Alexa Skills Kit SDK for Node.js. This deep dive will teach you how to leverage display directives to enhance your skill when invoked on devices with screens

When you create an in-skill product, you generate a JSON file that represents your product. Here we unpack each of the fields in that file to help you make full use of your ISPs.

Adva Levin, founder of Pretzel Labs and winner of the Alexa Skills Challenge: Kids, shares tips for building an engaging persona for your voice-first experience.

Immer mehr Geräte, die wir täglich zuhause benutzen, können mittlerweile intelligent gesteuert werden. Der Alexa Skill von EWE hilft dabei das smarte Zuhause zu steuern.

Help is often overlooked in a skill. But when done well, it is an invaluable part of the customer experience. Learn why it's important for every skill to include contextual help to guide customers throughout the voice experience.

Here are some core principles that we have uncovered in conversational voice design along with some advanced design skill-building tips to create natural voice experiences.

Regular skill testing can help you deliver consistently great and reliable voice experiences to customers.Check out this post to learn how to create unit tests to validate a skill’s output against predefined assertions.

Gal Shenar, founder of Stoked Skills and creator of popular skills like Escape the Room and Wordplay, shares best practices for building highly engaging Alexa skills.

I recently chatted with Oren Jacob, co-founder and CEO of Pullstring, and was delighted to learn that he shares my view on the importance of conversational design. Here are a few points from our chat that have stayed with me.

Florian Hollandt ist begeisterter Entwickler mit einem besonderen Interesse an Voice Games, also sprachgesteuerten Spielen. Da war es nur logisch, dass er selbst sich auch an die Entwicklung eines Voice Games wagt. So entstand die Idee für Mau-Mau, ein Game Skill für Alexa.

I often discover new tools and technologies that are available to developers to help them build skills more efficiently. Here’s a roundup of the tools that I’ve discovered and use on a regular basis to enhance my skill-building process.

We are excited to announce that you can now request customer permission to access and use the contact information stored in their Alexa Customer Profiles.

Accelerate your skill development using the ASK Toolkit for Visual Studio Code (beta).