Learn what makes Echo Buttons skills engaging for Alexa players in this skill teardown.

With benefits like increasing user engagement and retention, it may be an easy decision to incorporate organized competition in your mobile game. But it’s harder to know where to start.
 

Jess Williams and Oscar Merry designed their first Alexa skill for Echo Show and won the $7,500 cash prize for Best Skill Designed for Echo Show in the Alexa Skills Challenge: Kids.

Amazon science leader Young-Bum Kim describes the HypRank neural model, which performs the second step in the two-step process that Alexa uses to select the best skill to handle a given utterance.

The final post in our series covers another key voice design principle, which is to make your interactions relatable to your customers.

Today, we are excited to introduce Amazon Fire TV Cube, a hands-free 4K Ultra HD streaming media player with Alexa, allowing you to control your TV from across the room.

Amazon science leader Young-Bum Kim describes the Shortlister neural model, which performs the first step in the two-step process that Alexa uses to select the best skill to handle a given utterance.

Amazon today announced that Alexa, the brain that powers the Echo family of devices, is coming to France, along with three Alexa-enabled devices: Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, and Echo Spot.

We're excited to share that we're updating the Alexa Voice Service to bring French-language Alexa experiences to customers in France. Device makers can soon access the French language models in the cloud using the AVS Device SDK and APIs.

It's easy to create basic game art. The next step is to add proper lighting, textures, and details. Whether you want to draw rocks, some foliage, or a giant robot, there’s a trick for every effect. Let's dive right in and have a look at different shapes, colors, textures, and other details!