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The Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) is a collection of self-service APIs, tools, documentation, and code samples that makes it easier to start building Alexa skills. Skills are like apps for Alexa, enabling customers to perform everyday tasks or engage with your content naturally with voice.
Join hundreds of thousands of developers who are building Alexa skills to engage and delight customers on more than 100 million Alexa-enabled devices.
Delight Your Customers
Voice is the most natural user interface. You can enable customers to use their voices to easily access your content, devices, and services—wherever they are and whatever they're doing.
Easily Bring Your Vision to Life
You can take advantage of Amazon’s latest innovations in voice to deliver your experience. The Alexa Skills Kit provides self-service APIs, tools, documentation, and samples that you can use for gaming, productivity, news, music, smart home, and other scenarios.
Build Your Business
When you build with the Alexa Skills Kit, you expand your reach to more than 100 million Alexa-enabled devices in countries around the world, including smart speakers, smart TVs, cars, and more. You can also sell premium experiences and physical goods.
Build It Yourself
Build a rich voice experience using our self-service APIs, tools, documentation, and code samples.
Fill in a Template
Create a skill in minutes using Skill Blueprint templates. You can fill in the blanks or add audio to build quickly and easily.
Hire an Agency
Hire an experienced team to build a voice experience that extends your brand’s reach and deepens customer engagement.
Use New Alexa Emotions and Speaking Styles to Create a More Natural and Intuitive Voice Experience
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| Date | Name | Summary | Locale Availability | Links | Release Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10/30/2019 | Skill Personalization | You can now offer personalized experiences for your Alexa skill customers | All | Alexa Blog | Generally Available |
| 10/22/2019 | Kids ISP | Premium Experiences Now Available for Kid Skills in the US | US | Alexa Blog | Generally Available |
| 10/21/2019 | APL (Character Displays) | Build skills on the Echo Dot with clock with Alexa Presentation Language (APL) | All | Generally Available | |
| 10/16/2019 | APL 1.2 | Use new APL features to enhance your skills | All | Documentation | Generally Available |
| 10/11/2019 | Spanish (US) | Publish Spanish skills in the US and Make Money with In-Skill Purchasing (ISP) and Alexa Developer Rewards | es-US | Generally Available |
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