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Release Roundup
| Date | Name | Summary | Locale | Links | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07/20/2022 | Alexa Shopping Kit | Embed shopping experiences within your skill and earn money in the process. | All | Documentation | GA |
| 07/20/2022 | Alexa Skill Deals | Setup a discount on your In-Skill Purchases (ISP) and Paid Skills. Customers benefit from a skill deal as they get to experience premium content within a skill (through ISP) or the skill itself (if a paid skill) for a longer period of time at a discounted price. | All | Documentation | GA |
| 07/20/2022 | Skill Developer Accelerator Program (SDAP) | The Skill Developer Accelerator Program (SDAP) is an incentive-based program for building high quality skills and grow your business with Alexa. | All | Alexa Blog | Private Beta |
| 07/20/2022 | Alexa Routines Kit | Alexa Routines Kit enables skill builders to surface pre-built routines to their customers when they interact with their skill. Instead of creating routines from scratch, customers can enable these pre-built routines through simple voice consent and make their favorite skills a part of their daily lives. | US | Documentation | Developer Preview |
| 07/20/2022 | Promoted Skills | Promoted Skills provide a simple way for skill builders to set up paid campaigns to promote or advertise their skills on Alexa. | US | Documentation | Developer Preview |
| 07/20/2022 | Alexa Learning Lab | The Alexa Learning Lab is an e-learning product that enables Alexa developers to learn how to build Alexa skills by engaging in practical hands-on learning. | All | Documentation | GA |
| 07/20/2022 | Voice-forward Account Linking (Login with Amazon (LWA)) | With Voice-forward Account Linking, customers can easily link the account that they have with the skill builder on other channels with their Alexa account using just voice consent. They can then use voice to sign-in to the skill using Login with Amazon (LWA) and obtain access to personalized content. | All | Documentation | GA |
| 07/20/2022 | Code Sandbox | Code Sandbox is a new “show me” feature that lets you view and edit live APL examples in the APL tech docs. | All | Documentation | GA |
| 07/20/2022 | Skill Quality Coach | The Skill Quality Coach provides developers with a step-by-step approach for building high quality skills with tailored guidance and feedback. | US | Documentation | Beta |
| 07/20/2022 | Alexa for Apps SDK | Create a voice assistant for your mobile app and implement search, navigation, and custom interactions. | US | Interest Form | Developer Preview |
| 07/20/2022 | Food Skills API | Food Skills API leverages the state-of-the-art techniques in conversational AI to make it easier for restaurants to connect with customers and get food to table in new and convenient ways. | US | Alexa Blog | Updates |
| 07/20/2022 | APL Audio (APLA) Templates | This feature helps developers ramp up quickly on new APLA concepts with full samples. | All | Documentation | GA |
| 07/20/2022 | Multimodal Response Builder | Multimodal Response Builder brings multiple steps to create a visual response for your skill into one guided walkthrough in as little as 15 minutes. | All | Documentation | GA |
| 07/20/2022 | APL best practices for developers | APL best practices for developers provides guidance on how to build performance-optimized APL templates. | All | Documentation | GA |
| 07/20/2022 | APL Accessibility Guide | The APL Accessibility Guide is designed to help developers build experiences that are accessible and delightful to customers who are blind or have visual impairments. | All | Documentation | GA |
| 07/20/2022 | Skill Components | Skill Components are “ready to use” experiences that you can easily add to your skills built using Alexa Conversations, and configure them according to your needs. | US | Documentation | Developer Preview |
| 01/10/2022 | A/B Testing Tool | A/B test two live experiences of your skill simultaneously and see which one your customers prefer through high confidence data. | All | Documentation | Public Beta |
| 9/24/2020 | Motion & Sensing APIs | Build motion-capable Alexa skills for the all-new Echo Show 10 | All | GA | |
7/22/2020 |
Alexa Conversations |
Create Alexa skills that feel more natural with fewer lines of code |
US |
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Beta |
7/22/2020 |
Quick Links for Alexa |
Customers can launch your skills by clicking a link from your mobile app, website, or online ads |
US, es-US |
Beta |
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7/22/2020 |
Skill Resumption |
Allow customers to easily return to your skill after using Alexa accomplish another task |
US |
Preview |
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7/22/2020 |
ASK SDK Controls framework |
The new Controls Framework makes it easier and faster to code manage multi-turn skills |
All |
Beta |
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