We've identified a few tips for helping you troubleshoot your custom skill's back end with one objective in mind: to help you resolve issues faster and deliver higher-quality skills.

As voice commerce grows, so will customers’ expectations that they’ll be able to purchase premium content from Alexa skills. Many will want to discover what your skill offers by asking, “what can I buy?” In this case, your skill should have a good response ready.

実は、ダイアログ管理は私のお気に入りのAlexa Skills Kit機能の1つです。長い時間をかけていろいろな実験をしてきました。スキルの質を高めるコンテキスト切り替え（英語）や柔軟な条件付け（英語）といった便利なテクニックは、こうして開発できたのです。中には、Alexaイベントや@SleepyDeveloperを通して開発者から頂いた質問にインスパイアされたものもあります。Alexa Skills Kitチームでは日々、ダイアログ管理に新しい機能を追加し、更新を行っています。どれもユーザーとのやり取りを向上させるすばらしい機能ばかりです。今日はその中から、インテントチェーンをご紹介します。

After hypnotherapy helped Mauri Niininen get some much-needed rest over 20 years ago, he had a business idea about delivering audio therapy benefits to a broader audience. Today, the Hypno Therapist skill for Alexa provides therapy to tens of thousands of customers.

Today I am happy to announce our intention to make available the Topical Chat dataset, a corpus of human-human social conversations collected from crowd workers that will be released publicly on September 17, 2019.

Echo devices use information about sound sources' directions to isolate speech signals. Turning speech isolation and automatic speech recognition into a single, large, machine learning problem improves speech recognition accuracy, even on devices with fewer microphones.

The new dynamic entities capability helps you personalize Alexa skill experiences by adapting your interaction model at runtime without edits, builds, or re-certification.

Alexa for Business customers can now create and publish private Alexa skills to their organization in minutes without writing a single line of code.

Acoustic watermarking, which identifies audio signals through noise patterns imperceptible to humans, breaks down when signals are broadcast and re-captured by microphones. A new Alexa system is the first to solve this problem in real time, to prevent false device wakes and aid echo cancellation.

Interaktive Geschichten lassen den Zuhörer Einfluss auf die Handlung nehmen. Die so genannten Spielbücher gibt es schon seit den 60er Jahren, haben Ende der 80er Jahre aber an Popularität verloren. Mit Alexa kommen interaktive Geschichten nun wieder zurück.

The Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) Command-Line Interface (CLI) makes it easier to manage your Alexa skill throughout its lifecycle. The post describes how I automated the ASK CLI to sync my Alexa skill's interaction model faster.

Alexa Skill Blueprintsを使って、自分らしいスキルを作って頂けるようになりました。Blueprintsの使い方はとても簡単。特別なプログラミングの知識は必要ありません。様々な種類のテンプレートの中から好きなものを選択し、空欄を埋めたら、数分でスキルは完成。お持ちのAlexa搭載デバイスですぐに楽しんで頂くことができます。

Mark Cuban—Dallas Mavericks owner, Shark Tank investor, and self-made entrepreneur—shares why now is the time for developers to invest in Alexa and double down on voice. Catch the highlights of our interview with Mark.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) and Amazon commit up to $10 million each in research grants over the next three years focused on fairness in AI.

Sending notifications from applications in your mobile devices is a common feature nowadays, but what if you can send notifications from your Alexa skills to Alexa-enabled devices? Now, with the release of the ProactiveEvents API, you can send timely and relevant information to customers.