John Gillilan, Alexa Champion and founder of bondad.fm, shares some best practices for personalizing your Alexa skill experience by applying memory and variety. He also shares insights for localizing your Alexa skill.

In this skill recipe update, we look at two of the most popular methods you can use to call an external API through your Alexa skill using version 2 of the Node.js Software Development Kit.

We recently spoke with Tim McElreath, director of technology for mobile and emerging platforms at Discovery, to learn how Discovery is leveraging voice, explore his team’s process for building multimodal skills, and dive deep into their Food Network Alexa skill.

In much the same way the layout, color, and animations on a screen can impact usability, wording can signal subtle meaning to users. Learn how to write skill dialog that's focused, natural, and simple.

Get a recap of all the gaming sessions shared during Alexa Live and get inspired to build engaging voice-first games.

Este tutorial muestra como agregar soporte para Español de los Estados Unidos de América "Spanish (US)" a tus skills existentes. Adicionalmente, te muestra como usar el ASK (Alexa Skills Kit) para que Alexa responda en función a el modelo de lenguaje.

With hundreds of thousands of monthly users, customers say Question of the Day is a skill that they “take the time to play every single day.” Learn how developer Joel Wilson is taking his voice game to the next level with in-skill purchasing.

What's new in the Alexa Skills Kit for April 2019? Read our release roundup blog to find out.

Today, we congratulate those Alexa developers whose skills won them a coveted Webby award and recognition from their peers and the industry.

We are excited to announce that we are expanding in-skill purchasing (ISP) capabilities internationally, starting with the UK, Germany, and Japan.

One certification requirement for monetized skills is the ability to keep track of your customers' inventory of consumable in-skill products. Learn how to manage product inventory in monetized skills.

We’re excited to announce that now developers can start building skills for Spanish-speaking customers in the US using the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) with the new Spanish for US voice model.

This tutorial will show you how you can add support for Spanish (US) in your existing skills. It will also show you how you can use ASK to enable Alexa to respond based on locales.

Learn how to implement in-skill purchasing in an Alexa skill using the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) Software Development Kit (SDK) for Java.

Now you can now test multi-turn conversations using the new dialog command in the ASK CLI and the updated simulation API (beta) in SMAPI.