Amazon Fire TV Stick (3rd Gen) and Fire TV Stick Lite have a new user interface (UI) for improved content discovery and expanded voice navigation with Alexa. 

Today, we announced the next-generation Fire TV Stick, all-new Fire TV Stick Lite, Fire TV Cube expansion in Europe, and a redesigned Fire TV user experience with improved content discovery and engagement features for Fire TV developers.

In this roundup video we share details about the new things released for skill developers last month, including Skill Personalization, Utterance Conflict Detection, the Get Metrics API, and many other releases from October!

カスタムスキルをAlexa定型アクションから呼び出せるようになりました。Alexa定型アクションを使うと、Alexaに複数のアクションを、指定した順番に同時に実行させることができます。定型アクションは、カスタム発話や時間指定などで起動できます。あなたのスキルのユーザーをエンゲージし、スキルを繰り返し使ってもらえるようにするためのよい機会です。

Today, we are excited to announce that you can start building skills using Alexa Presentation Language (APL) on the Echo Dot with clock, one of Amazon’s newest Echo devices. With this new capability, APL can be used to build visual experiences on a new class of devices with character-based displays.

In this roundup video we share details about the new things released for skill developers last month, including the Web API for Games (Preview), Alexa-hosted Skills Python Support, the NLU Evalution tool, and all of the announcements from our September Event.

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

Starting October 8, we are expanding Alexa Voice Service capabilities by bringing the Portuguese language to customers across Brazil.

Today, we’re excited to announce new features you can use to make your smart devices easier for customers to setup, use, and maintain, and easier for you to build.

Alexa now supports voice interactions in Hindi in addition to other supported languages. Starting early October, we will support US Spanish and enable Multilingual Mode, which allows Alexa to switch between two languages.