After months of hard work from Alexa developers around the world, the Alexa Skill Challenge: Multimodal has concluded. We are excited to annouce the grand prize winner and the bonus prize winners!

After reviewing hundreds of submissions, we are excited to share the 10 finalists of the Alexa Skills Challenge: Multimodal.

Today we welcome Alexa Champion Adva Levin to offer some best practices for building multimodal skills. She shares how she redesigned her Kids Court skill into a multimodal experience using the Alexa Presentation Language.

Get started with multimodal skill design and the Alexa Presentation Language with our new sample skill, Sauce Boss.

Explore the various components of the Alexa Presentation Language (APL) and how you can use them in different ways to design new experiences for your skill.

Now with the Alexa Presentation Language (APL), you can create interactive voice experiences optimized for tens of millions Alexa-enabled devices. If you've previously built a multimodal skill using Java, check out this tutorial to learn how to update your skill with APL.

APLでは画面デザインを JSON オブジェクトで定義しますが、これを APL ドキュメント と呼びます。 下の aplDocument が簡単な APL ドキュメントの例です。 "こんにちは" というテキストとURLで指定された画像が、画面中央に縦に並んで表示されます。

In the final post in our three-part series about how we created the Space Explorer sample skill, we cover how we built the skill’s back end using AWS Lambda.

Now, with the Alexa Presentation Language, you can enhance voice-first experiences using imagery, typography, and text within a skill. Follow these best practices for using graphics and text within your multimodal skill.

Get a deep dive on our new multimodal sample skill called Space Explorer. We’ll walk you through how we built the interaction model using the Alexa Presentation Language.

As Alexa expands to more countries and languages, you have more opportunities to make your skills available to a growing audience around the world. If you're ready to take your skill global, you'll first want to consider the best way to localize, or internationalize, the experience.

If you have already built multimodal Alexa skills using the Display Directive interface, you can still use the Alexa Presentation Language (APL) to create similar displays of those templates. Here's a quick overview of how you can migrate your display templates over to APL.

Get a deep dive on our new sample skill called Space Explorer. We’ll walk you through the skill experience and share best practices for building voice-first visual experiences with the Alexa Presentation Language.

To create an inclusive voice experience, your skill should be designed in a way so that it is available and delightful for every customer who wants to use it.