We recently wrapped up AWS re:Invent 2018, where the Alexa team engaged with the largest gathering of global Amazon developers. Check out the recordings and resources from the breakout sessions.

We are excited to announce the Security Panel Controller API, enabling your customers to control their security systems via Alexa-enabled devices.

New Alexa capabilities are often bootstrapped using "grammars", formal rules that can generate artificial training examples for machine learning systems. A new method for constructing statistical language models directly from grammars can improve speech recognition on new capabilities by up to 15%.

Alexaスキルでユーザーのリマインダーを設定、管理できる、リマインダーAPIがこのほど使用できるようになりました。このAPIは、Alexaでサポートされているすべての国・地域で使用できます。

We are excited to announce the availability of the ProactiveEvents API. With the API, you can enable your Alexa skills to send notifications to customers who have granted permissions.

In the Amazon Developer Podcast, I discuss technologies and trends in the mobile, apps, and games developer world with guest speakers and influencers from all over the world.

Here are a few things to keep in mind as you start designing visual components to complement your voice-first experience.

Ruya is a meditative puzzle game where you play a seemingly sleepy character with a garden of adorable characters beneath her. The goal is to match cute characters in Ruya's world of dreams, swiping, sliding, and popping these characters to progress and unfold Ruya's memories.
 

We're excited to announce two new capabilities for Alexa Skill developers that help you quickly improve the performance of your interaction model and build more accurate and engaging skills.

A new technique that lets different natural-language-understanding modules independently calibrate their judgments about whether they should handle a given utterance helps improvements reach Alexa customers more efficiently.