Today, we are excited to announce that users can invoke custom skills from Alexa routines.

You've done it! Together, the Alexa skill builder community has now published more than 100,000 Alexa skills. We’re thrilled to celebrate this milestone with you and want to thank you for making this possible.

Announcing New Alexa Skills Kit Developer Tools to Help You Deliver Visuals on the Latest Echo Devices, More Languages, and Personalization

We're excited to introduce the Alexa Education Skill API (Preview), a new set of interfaces that allow Education Technology (Ed Tech) developers to build voice experiences for parents and students 13 and older.

Announcing Personalized Alexa Skill Experiences (Preview)

Use Alexa voice profiles to personalize your skill content for individual customers.

Con mucho entusiasmo anunciamos que en las proximas semanas, las skills en Español con el modelo de lenguaje: Spanish (US) o Español para los Estados Unidos, pueden ser publicadas en la tienda de Skills con compras dentro de las skill (ISP) y Recompensas Para Desarolladores. 

We’re excited to announce that you are now able to publish Spanish skills in the US and start making money with in-skill purchasing (ISP) and Alexa Developer Rewards.

With in-skill purchasing, you can build a business on Alexa and make money with your skills. The first step in creating a premium experience is to find a reasonable use case, that brings value to your customers. In this blog post, we have summarized some inspirational use cases for you.

Welcome to Part 1 in our series on designing skills with in-skill purchasing (ISP)! Today we’ll explore the different types of in-skill purchases, how they might unlock new experiences for customers, and imagine how we might implement them.

When a developer wants to link the Alexa back end to an external back end that requires authentication, account linking provides a secure way to do that. However, some skill types require the user to mutually link accounts so that skills can send proactive updates to the Alexa back end. Learn how.