Alexa Live > Release Roundup
| Feature | Description | Relevant Links |
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| Adaptive Mic Timeout (preview) | Give your customers more time to respond using a longer mic timeout | |
| Alexa Conversations (beta DE, developer preview JP) | Author sample conversations, called dialogs, in a declarative manner using Alexa Conversations Description Language (ACDL) |
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| Alexa Skill Insights (beta) | Receive customized recommendations to improve your skill quality and monetization opportunities from in-house experts | |
| Alexa Entities | Retrieve additional factual information for given entities, simplifying content acquisition for your skills | |
| Alexa Skill Design Guide | Design guidance, principles, and best practices for building Alexa Skills | Learn more |
| APL Widgets (preview) | Allow customers to perform quick actions while staying in the current screen context | |
| Featured skill cards on Echo Show (preview) | Promote your skill using pre-defined discovery cards, monitor performance, and convert top-of-funnel traffic to long-term engaged customers | |
| Recommended skills in popular discovery phrases (preview) | Update your NFI container to have your skill suggested as Alexa’s first response to popular phrases | |
| Personalized skill suggestions with NFI (preview) | Name-free voice interactions surface your skill to customers who have previously expressed interest in your skill | |
| Event Based Triggers and Proactive Suggestions (coming soon) | Use specific triggers like initiating a morning commute to proactively suggest actions like locking your home | |
| NFI Container (preview) | Add NFI container to your eligible skills with self-serve experience and reduce friction for existing customers | Docs |
| ISP International Expansion to IN, CA | Add In-Skill Purchasing (ISP) to your skill experiences in India and Canada | |
| Paid Skills | Charge your customers upfront to access the core functionality of your skill | |
| Alexa Shopping Actions (preview) | Create a shopping experience within your skill by recommending products | |
| Amazon Associates on Alexa (preview) | Earn a commission on qualifying purchases from the referrals made using Alexa Shopping Actions | |
| Rich Media on Detail Pages (preview) | Add media to your skill detail pages on the Alexa app to help customers understand your skill | |
| Custom Tasks in Routines (preview) | Integrate custom tasks with Alexa Routines to provide customers with richer experiences and drive more traffic to your skill |
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| ASK Toolkit for VS Code v2.6 | Build and test your skills locally with VS Code | Toolkit |
| Interactive Media Vertical Solution (preview) | Create interactive experiences connected with your content on Alexa, such as, Song Request to DJ, Polls, and Contests | |
| Amazon Music Spotlight Feature (preview) | Enables artists to share their latest content with fans curated for Alexa without coding | |
| Skill Components (preview) | Build skills faster by simply plugging them into your existing voice models and code libraries | Learn more |
| Shared Activities API (preview) | Unlock new ways for customers to play games by adding asynchronous multiplayer gameplay | |
| Food Skill APIs (coming soon) | Add functionality at each stage of food ordering using pre-built experiences from discovery to ordering to tracking | |
| Skill A/B Testing (preview) | Run A/B Tests across multiple skill implementations and monitor new statistical analytics | |
| Sync Locales | Reduce time by propagating skill updates to additional locales supporting the same language | Docs |
| AI based Sample Utterance Recommendation Engine (beta) | Generate variations of samples utterances using machine learning | Docs |
| Fallback intent for new skills | Pick the best match for user utterances that you have not predicted | Docs |
| Auto-Defect Reduction Service (ARES) (preview) | Identify and fix defective customer interactions with minimal to no effort | |
| Customized Pronunciations (preview) | Ingest your own pronunciations in Alexa to improve the speech recognition of rare or custom words | |
| Centralized Testing Tools (beta) | Test your voice interaction model accuracy with little effort |
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| Voice Forward Account Linking (preview) | Make conversations more natural by allowing customers to link their third-party accounts or create new accounts using voice alone | |
| Voice Forward Consent (preview) | Customers can grant permissions to share information such as name, phone number and email address using their voice | |
| Alexa for Apps’ Send to Phone (preview) | Send customers from your skill on any Alexa-enabled device to an app or website on a customer’s phone | |
| Find My (private beta) | Help customers find important things they have misplaced such as keys, wallets, headphones, remotes | |
| Slot Negation (preview) | Allow your customers to indicate things they don't want, like "shoes without white soles" |
| Feature | Description | Relevant Links |
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| Alexa Smart Reorders | Help customers manage their supplies by letting them know when those supplies are running low | Website |
| Monitor Energy Consumption for Your Smart Home Devices | Allow customers to track and manage the energy usage of their Alexa connected devices in the Alexa App | |
| Automatically detect Alexa compatible smart home devices | Automatically detect Alexa compatible devices in the customer’s home | |
| Enabling your smart detectors to work with Alexa (coming soon) | Allow customers to connect their smart safety devices with Alexa to better protect their homes | |
| 'Matter' Protocol (coming soon) | Echo Family Devices (EFDs) will connect to previous non-Matter and new Matter device end points to Alexa | Learn more |
| Alexa Connect Kit: International Expansion (coming soon) | Connect your devices to Alexa quickly and easily |
| Feature | Description | Relevant Links |
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| Alexa Management API for programmatic management and customization of experiences | Assign devices to properties, enable Alexa skills, create a customized guest experience, and more | Docs |
| Alexa for Residential voice-enabled experiences | Build, market, and sell Alexa capabilities at scale to residential properties | Docs |
| Multi-modal customization for Alexa for Hospitality (coming soon) | Customize notifications and visual messaging at scale for your customers using Alexa devices with screens | Docs |
| No Code API management to configure scaled experiences | Use the fleet management API console to build scaled voice experiences for hospitality businesses | Contact us |
| HIPAA-eligible Alexa capabilities for health care organizations | Access the Alexa Health Skill Program and build an Alexa Skill to deliver remote care to their patients at home | Contact us |
| Feature | Description | Relevant Links |
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| Alexa Custom Assistant | Create intelligent assistants tailored to your brand personality and customer needs | |
| Multi-Agent Experience (or ‘MAX’) Toolkit (preview) | Enable device-side orchestration of multiple agent clients running on a single device | Docs |
| Multi Agent Design Guide | Device and voice agent design guidance, principles, and best practices for multiple voice agents to coexist on a device | |
| AVS ROW expansion | Availability of Alexa Voice Service (AVS) to 18 new countries |
