Amazon has expanded the Dash Replenishment Service in France, Italy, and Spain with new connected devices from Philips, Epson, Bosch, Siemens, Neff, Gaggenau, Haier, Candy, Hoover, and Coway.

What's new in the Alexa Skills Kit for May 2019? Read our release roundup blog to find out.

As part of this preview, developers can build premium kid skills for the US Alexa Skills Store using in-skill purchasing (ISP).

Alexaスキルのベータテストツールとは、本番環境にリリースする前にスキルをベータ版としてテストするために使用するツールです。今回は、ベータテストの管理者がスキルのテスト実施者（ベータテスター）にテストの実施を依頼する際によくみられる問題2例と解決策をご紹介します。

New approach to "active learning", or automatically selecting training examples for machine learning, improves the performance of natural-language-understanding system by 7% to 9%.

In this example skill, we look at one of the most popular methods you can use to call an external API through your Alexa skill using the “Requests” library in Python.

We recently launched dynamic entities, which can help you personalize Alexa skill experiences by adapting your interaction model at run time without edits, builds, or re-certification. Here are some use cases where you can leverage dynamic entities.

Natural-language-understanding system that includes both a generic model for a language and several locale-specific models improves accuracy by an average of 59% over individual locale-specific models.

前回の記事ではスキル内課金の開発手順を紹介しました。開発を進める中で様々な疑問も出てくるかと思います。そのような際に参考になるよう、今回の記事ではスキル内課金に関するFAQを紹介します。下記以外のFAQについてはこちらのドキュメントや「スキル内課金のベストプラクティス」の記事も参考にしてください。

In part 2 of my blog series about our new training course called Cake Walk, I share how you can leverage auto-delegation in the Alexa Skills Kit to collect necessary slots.

みなさまが開発されたAlexaスキルは、スキルストアへの公開に当たり、Alexa審査チームが認定審査をさせていただき、 スキルがよいユーザー体験をお届けできるよう、必要に応じてフィードバックをさせていただいています。このブログでは、審査で改善のフィードバックを受けるスキルの傾向を紹介し、事前にご対応いただく方法を紹介します。今回は「サンプル発話」についてです。

John Kelvie—co-founder and CEO of Bespoken—shares some best practices for testing Alexa skills to ensure you deliver a high-quality voice experience.

A new Alexa system adopts a simpler, more scalable solution to the problem of "reference resolution", or tracking references through several rounds of dialogue, by overwriting referring words with their referents.

Build dialogs that feel natural, faster and with less code using Alexa Conversations.

At Amazon's re:MARS conference, Alexa VP and head scientist Rohit Prasad announced new AI technology that will enable Alexa to engage in multiturn dialogs that span skills, shifting the cognitive burden of complex task coordination from the customer to Alexa.