You can now use voice profiles to understand who is interacting with your skill, which allows you to provide customers with custom responses and a more personalized Alexa skill experience.

Alexaスキルのパーソナライズ機能がAlexa Skills Kitで一般公開され、すべてのロケールでご利用いただけるようになりました。開発者は、カスタムスキルの音声プロフィールを活用し、スキルとの対話する声に応じた応答を返すことができます。

We are excited to introduce Skill Flow Builder (SFB), a new tool that enables you to build story-based game skills faster, including interactive fiction, branching narratives, and role-playing games.

We are excited to announce that now anyone can create and publish an Alexa skill on the India Alexa Skills Store, using the Alexa Skill Blueprints. Skill Blueprints enable you to create and share customized Alexa skills simply by filling in the blanks to one of the dozens of easy-to-use templates. Now, anyone, even with no coding skills, can publish skills created using Alexa Skill Blueprints to the Alexa Skills Store in US and India for customers to discover, use, and review.

We’re thrilled to announce the Alexa Skills Challenge: Multimodal with Devpost, an opportunity for you to build an Alexa multimodal skill using the Alexa Presentation Language (APL) and compete for cash prizes and Amazon devices.

Today we are excited to announce the Reminders API, which you can use to enable your Alexa skills to set and manage reminders for your customers. The new API is available to developers in all locales supported by Alexa.

We are excited to announce a new competition that invites makers to create the smart home gadgets of the future. We’ve teamed up with Arduino, the world’s leading open-source hardware and software ecosystem, and Hackster.io to bring you the Alexa and Arduino Smart Home Challenge.