Alexa Skills for Business, Hospitality, and Residential
This section describes how to build Alexa skills for Business, Hospitality, and Residential.
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Get Started
- What is the Alexa Skills Kit?
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Skill Types
- Automotive Skills
- Business Skills
- Cooking Skills
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Custom Voice Model Skills
- Steps to Build a Custom Skill
- Get Custom Skill Sample Code
- Understand How Users Invoke Custom Skills
- Choose the Invocation Name for a Custom Skill
- Create a Custom Skill from a Quick Start Template
- Host a Custom Skill as an AWS Lambda Function
- Host a Custom Skill as a Web Service
- Configure a Skill for Multiple Languages
- Create the Interaction Model (Intents, Slots, and Dialogs)
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Use Built-in Intents and Slot Types
- Understand the Structure of the Built-in Intent Library
- Built-in Intent Library
- Standard Built-in Intents
- Slot Type Reference
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Built-in Intent Entity Types
- Actor Intents
- Book Intents
- BookSeries Intents
- Calendar Intents
- Catalog Intents
- CreativeWork Intents
- CreativeWork
Section Intents - Episode Intents
- Event Intents
- LocalBusiness Intents
- MusicCreativeWork Intents
- MusicGroup Intents
- Musician Intents
- MusicPlaylist Intents
- MusicRecording Intents
- PlaybackMode Intents
- ReadingList Intents
- ScreeningEvent Intents
- Singer Intents
- Thing Intents
- TVSeason Intents
- TVSeries Intents
- VideoCreative
Work Intents - VideoPlaylist Intents
- WeatherForecast Intents
- Migrate Slot Types that Used AMAZON.LITERAL
- Entity Resolution
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Handle Requests Sent by Alexa
- Manage the Skill Session and Session Attributes
- Delegate the Dialog to Alexa
- Include a Card in Your Skill's Response
- Best Practices for Skill Card Design
- Send the User a Progressive Response
- Understand Name-free Interaction for Custom Skills
- Implement CanFulfill
IntentRequest for Name-free Interaction
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Personalize the User Experience
- Add Personalization to Your Skill
- Access the Alexa Shopping and To-Do Lists
- Add Personalized Greetings or Prompts
- Configure Permissions for Customer Information
- Enhance Your Skill with Address Information
- Get a User-Specific Access Token for Out-of-Session Calls
- Obtain Customer Settings Information
- Request Customer Contact Information
- Request Recognized Speaker Contact Information
- Test and Troubleshoot Personalization
- Use Location Services for Alexa Skills
- Use Personalization With or Without Account Linking
- Expose Skill Functionality with Tasks
- Let Skills Work Together with Skill Connections
- Alexa Quick Links
- Use Display Templates to Show Content on Screens
- Education Skills
- Entertainment Device Skills
- Flash Briefing Skills
- Game Skills
- List Skills
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Music, Radio, and Podcast Skills
- Steps to Create a Music, Radio, or Podcast Skill
- Implement Podcast Skill Features
- Upload Music or Radio Catalogs
- Upload Podcast Catalogs
- Add Premium Audio, Badging, and License Retrieval to a Music Skill
- Internationalize a Podcast Skill
- Catalog Reference
- Understand Voice Modeling
- Testing Guide
- Event Subscriptions
- Troubleshooting
- Music, Radio, and Podcast Skill API
- Networking and Wi-Fi Skills
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Smart Home Skills
- Steps to Build a Smart Home Skill
- Send Events to the Alexa Event Gateway
- State and Change Reporting
- How to Proactively Manage Endpoints
- Authenticate a Customer to Alexa
- Best Practices for the Alexa App
- Develop Smart Home Skills in Multiple Languages
- Smart Home Skill Publishing Guide
- Smart Home Skill Device Templates
- Provide Scenes
- Zigbee Support
- Smart Home Skill v2-to-v3 Migration Guide
- Multi-capability Skills
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Smart Home Skill APIs
- AutomationManagement
- BrightnessController
- ColorController
- ColorTemperatureController
- Estimation
- InventoryLevelSensor
- InventoryUsageSensor
- Meter
- PercentageController
- PowerController
- PowerLevelController
- SceneController
- TemperatureSensor
- ThermostatController
- ThermostatController.HVAC.Components
- TimeHoldController
- Generic Controllers
- Smart Home Security Skills
- Video Skills
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Skill Development Process
- Design Your Skill
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Build Your Skill
- Account Linking
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Sell Products in an Alexa Skill
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Sell Premium Content with In-Skill Purchasing
- Create and Manage In-Skill Products
- Create and Manage In-Skill Products with the ASK CLI
- Design a Good Customer Experience
- Add ISP Support to Your Skill Code
- Choose Pricing, Languages, and Distribution for In-Skill Products
- Build Premium Experiences for Kid Skills in the US
- Test In-Skill Purchasing Skills
- Certify In-Skill Purchasing Skills
- Use In-Skill Product Service APIs
- Set Up Tax Forms for Your Account
- Set Up Payments
- In-Skill Purchasing FAQ
- Sell Real-World Goods and Services with Amazon Pay
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Sell Premium Content with In-Skill Purchasing
- Use APL to Create Visual Content
- Use AI-Driven Dialog Management
- Include Reminders in a Skill
- Include Timers in a Skill
- Use Events in a Skill
- Alexa for Apps
- Deprecated Features
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Test and Debug Your Skill
- Test Your Smart Home Skill
- Test Your Custom Skill
- Beta Test a Skill
- Certify and Publish Your Skill
- Monitor Your Skill and Metrics
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Tools to Create and Manage Skills
- Alexa Developer Console
- Alexa-Hosted Skills
- ASK Toolkit for VS Code
- ASK SDKs
- ASK CLI
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Skill Management API
- Get an Access Token for SMAPI
- Account Linking Management
- Audit Logs
- Catalog Content Upload
- Clone Skill Locale
- Intent Request History
- Interaction Model Management
- In-Skill Product Management
- Proactive Events
- Metrics
- Create a Slot Type to Use in Multiple Skills
- Reference-Based Catalog Management
- Rollback a Skill
- Skill Certification and Publishing
- Skill Credentials
- Skill Enablement
- Skill Management
- Skill Package Management
- Smart Home Evaluation
- Vendor Management
- Alexa-hosted skill
- Manage Update Jobs
- SMAPI Error Codes
- Skill Testing
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ASR Evaluation Tool APIs
- Create an Annotation Set for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) API
- Delete an Annotation Set for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) API
- Delete Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Evaluation API
- Get Annotation Set Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Contents API
- Get Annotation Set Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Metadata API
- Get Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Evaluation Results API
- Get Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Evaluation Status API
- List All Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Annotation Sets API
- List Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Evaluations API
- Post Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Evaluation API
- Update Annotation Set Annotations for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) API
- Update an Annotation Set Property for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) API
- Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) API Error Reference
- Skill Development Notifications
- Migration of SMAPI from v0 to v1
- AWS Tools
- Skill Flow Builder
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Reference
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Skill Developer Reference
- Alexa Interface Reference
- Custom Skill Interface Reference
- SSML Reference
- Alexa Skills Kit Object Schemas
