The Amazon Developer Portal console features a new user interface (UI), including a new header and footer, consistent with the pre-login site, allowing easy access to the services you access most, as well as quick links to technical documentation, support, and search.

In July, we announced the Alexa Skills Challenge: Tech for Good. The challenge invited developers to build Alexa skills that could have a positive impact on the environment, local communities, and the world. We’ve finally narrowed down the 10 finalists and we’re excited to share them with you.

Today, we are excited to launch the new and improved reporting dashboard in the Appstore Developer Console.

We had two primary goals in mind when we built these new enhancements: provide more transparency in our data and ease of use. Keep reading for a closer look at some of the changes.

Today, we’re excited to announce that developers can start building voice experiences, called “skills,” for French Canadian customers using the Alexa Skills Kit with the Canadian French voice model.

Today we are excited to announce skill connections (preview) for all current Alexa locales. You can use skill connections (preview) to do more for your customers – including printing and scheduling taxis and restaurants – using functionality provided by other skills.

私たちは本日、スキル間の連携をサポートする、「Skill Connections」の開発者プレビューを、Alexaがサポートする全ての国・地域を対象に開始することを発表しました。Skill Connectionsを有効にすることで、他のスキルが提供する機能が使えるようになり、単体では実現できなかった一貫したサービスをカスタマーに提供できるようになります。

The HiSilicon STB Push-to-Talk Development Kit for Amazon AVS enables STB device makers and TV operators to create new device designs with Alexa built-in and retrofit deployed STBs to support Alexa.

お客様はAlexaを通じてデバイスで音楽を聞くことを好みます。多くの場合、お客様は話しかけたデバイスと同一デバイスで音楽が再生されるようにAlexaに話しかけます。また、お客様は別の場所、もしくは同じ空間内にある別のデバイスで同時に音楽を再生させたいとも考えています。

Today, we are excited to announce two TVs, Fire TV Edition - Toshiba 4K (2018) and Fire TV Edition - Toshiba HD (2018), will be available for pre-order in Canada, exclusively at Best Buy retail locations and online at BestBuy.com.

Today, we're excited to announce the Fire TV Stick 4K, the most powerful streaming media stick available, plus an all-new Alexa Voice Remote, are available together for customers in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, India, and Japan.