Developers can now create premium kid skills for the US Alexa Skills Store using in-skill purchasing (ISP).

Having fresh and customized content goes a long way in keeping customers engaged with your skill. Using Amazon S3 like a relational database provides an easy way to include fresh and dynamic content in your skill.

Today, we are excited to announce that you can start building skills using Alexa Presentation Language (APL) on the Echo Dot with clock, one of Amazon’s newest Echo devices. With this new capability, APL can be used to build visual experiences on a new class of devices with character-based displays.

CLI profiles are a great way to help you manage your identities and credentials when you work on multiple projects with different accounts. Learn how to use profiles to simplify switching between identities.

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Welcome to Part 3 in our series on designing skills with in-skill purchasing (ISP)! Today we’ll discuss how to write effective upsells and communicate a compelling value proposition to customers.

I recently sat down with Adam Savage and he shared his recommendation on how to approach the Alexa skill development process to successfully deliver a meaningful experience for customers.

We’re excited to invite you to join the Alexa team at AWS re:Invent 2019, December 2-6 in Las Vegas, Nevada. AWS re:Invent is a learning conference hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS) for the global cloud computing community.

We’re excited to introduce our new Alexa Skills course, "How to Design for In-Skill Purchasing". This free course outlines tips and best practices for designing a great monetized Alexa skill experience.

Hear from Alexa Champion Steven Arkonovich about how he used sonic branding and “earcons” to help his skill, Big Sky, stand out.

In this roundup video we share details about the new things released for skill developers last month, including the Web API for Games (Preview), Alexa-hosted Skills Python Support, the NLU Evalution tool, and all of the announcements from our September Event.

Here are some tips and tricks for using Skill Flow Builder (SFB), a tool for visually designing and building story-based game skills which makes it easier for content creators to create skills without needing a large development team.

We’re excited to announce the General Availability of Natural Language Understanding (NLU) Evaluation Tool and Utterance Conflict Detection. We are also excited to announce the Get Metrics API, now in Beta. 

Welcome to Part 2 in our series on designing skills with in-skill purchasing (ISP)! Today we’ll discuss how to surface upsells effectively in your skill to drive conversions and build customer trust.

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