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What is the Alexa Skills Kit?
- About Voice Interaction Models
- Index of Skill Types
- Create Your Developer Account
- Glossary
Skill Types
App/Website Skills
- Use the Developer Console (No Code)
- Use the Command Line
- FAQ
- Alexa for Apps V1 to V2 Migration Guide
Automotive Skills
- Connected Vehicle Skills
- Alexa Skills for Driving
Custom Voice Model Skills
- Steps to Build a Custom Skill
- Tutorial: Build Your First Alexa 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)
- Use Built-in Intents and Slot Types
- Entity Resolution
- Handle Requests Sent by Alexa
- Understand Name-free Interaction for Custom Skills
- Alexa Quick Links
  - Create a Quick Link for Your Custom Skill
  - Create a Quick Link for Your Custom Task
- Use Display Templates to Show Content on Screens
Flash Briefing Skills
- Steps to Build a Flash Briefing Skill
- Tips to Create a Great Flash Briefing Skill
- Flash Briefing Skill Certification Checklist
- Normalize the Loudness of Audio Content
- Flash Briefing Skill API Feed Reference
Game Skills
- Alexa Web API for Games
List Skills
- Steps to Build a List Skill
- List Events in Alexa Skills
- Functional Testing for a List Skill
- Submit a List Skill for Certification
- List Management FAQ
Music, Radio, and Podcast Skills
- Steps to Build 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
Smart Home Skills
- Steps to Build a Smart Home Skill
  - Implement Smart Home Skill Code
  - Send Events to the Alexa Event Gateway
- Smart Home Skill Concepts
- Smart Home Skill Types
- Tutorial: Build a Smart Home Skill
- Smart Home Skill APIs
Video Skills
- Steps to Build a Video Skill
  - Implement Video Skill Code
- State Reporting for Video Skills
- Video Skill Testing Guide
- Video Skill APIs
- Video Skills for Fire TV Apps
- Video Skills for Echo Show
Skill Development Process
Design Your Skill
- Alexa Design Guide
Build Your Skill
- Use AI-Driven Dialog Management
- Add Visuals and Audio to Your Skill
- Add Account Linking
- Earn Money with a Skill
- Add Alexa Shopping Actions
- Include Reminders in a Skill
- Personalize the User Experience
- Expose Skill Functionality with Tasks
- Let Skills Work Together with Skill Connections
  - Use Skill Connections to Request Tasks
- Offer Pre-Built Routines from Your Skill
  - Pre-Built Routine API Reference
  - Pre-Built Routine Primitives
- Include Timers in a Skill
  - Set Up Voice Permissions for Timers
  - Best Practices for Timers
- Use Events in a Skill
- Add Dash Replenishment
- Display Suggestions on the Home Screen
- Add Rich Media to Your Skill Detail Page
- Deprecated Features
Test and Debug Your Skill
- Test and Debug Your Smart Home Skill
- Test and Debug Your Custom Skill
- Test with the Alexa Simulator
- Beta Test a Skill
Certify and Publish Your Skill
- Certification Requirements
- Smart Home Skill Certification Guide
- Works with Alexa
- Certified for Humans
Monitor Your Skill Metrics and Earnings
- Analyze Your Skill Metrics
- View Your Payments and Earnings
Tools to Create and Manage Skills
- Manage Your Developer Account
- Alexa Developer Console
- Alexa-hosted Skills
- ASK Toolkit for VS Code
- ASK SDKs
- ASK CLI
- Skill Management API
- AWS Tools
- Skill Flow Builder
Skill Developer Reference
Alexa Interface Reference
- List of Alexa Interfaces
- Message and Property Reference
- Foundational APIs
- Smart Home Skill APIs
- Video Skill APIs
Custom Skill Interface Reference
- Request and Response JSON Reference
- Request Types Reference
- Interfaces
REST API Reference
- Alexa-hosted Skill Management
- ASR Annotation Set
- ASR Evaluation
- Intent Request History
- Interaction Model Catalog Management
- Interaction Model Management
- List Management
- Locale Cloning
- Metrics
- NLU Annotation Set
- NLU Evaluation
- Resource Schema
- Skill Certification
- Skill Credentials
- Skill Enablement
- Skill Invocation
- Skill Manifest
- Skill Messaging
- Skill Publishing
- Skill Rollback
- Skill Simulation
- Skill Validation
- Smart Home Skill Evaluation
- Timers
- Utterance Conflict Detection
- Utterance Profiler
- Vendor Management
SSML Reference
- Best Practices for Using Amazon Polly Voices
- Alexa Skills Kit Sound Library
- Speechcons (Interjections)
Schema Reference
- Skill Manifest Schemas
- Skill Manifest Examples
- Account Linking Schemas
- Interaction Model Schemas
- In-Skill Purchasing Schemas
- Paid Skill Schemas
- Proactive Events Schemas

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Skill Developer Reference

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This section contains reference documentation for Alexa skill developers.

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Alexa Interface Reference
Custom Skill Interface Reference
Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Reference
Alexa Skills Kit Object Schemas

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