Using the new ProactiveEvents API, you can enable your Alexa skills to send notifications to customers who have granted permission. This post walks you through how to configure the ProactiveEvents API to solve a hypothetical business problem.

Alexa開発者コンソール上で、審査の状況やスキルの公開ステータス、スキル利用可能国を知ることができるようになりました。

This post will cover design practices that can help you build a conversational voice experience. We’ll use an example skill called The Foodie to illustrate the concepts.

You can use the new Reminders API to create and manage reminders for customers as part of your Alexa skill experience. Learn how to create reminders using the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) Software Development Kit (SDK) for Java.

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。

You can now find dynamic estimations on when your skill’s certification results will be provided, a history of certification updates, and a list of countries where your live skills are available – all in the Alexa Developer Console or through SMAPI.

We're excited to announce that you can now view how your skill model selects intents and slots across the skill building process, and use this information to improve your interaction model to create more accurate and engaging skills.

This post will cover design practices that can help you build a conversational voice experience. We’ll use an example skill called The Foodie to illustrate the concepts.

You can now select Alexa-hosted for your skill’s back-end services when creating a new skill, a new skill-hosting option that automatically provisions and manages a set of AWS cloud services for your skill’s back-end.

すべての開発者がAlexa-hostedスキルのベータ版を使用できるようになりました。Alexa-hostedスキルとは、スキルのバックエンドサービスにAWSクラウドリソースを自動的にプロビジョニングして管理する、新しい機能です。Alexa-hostedスキルでは、スキルの作成、編集、公開がすべてAlexa開発者コンソールで完結します。

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.

Building a monetized Alexa skill just got easier. You can now add in-skill purchasing (ISP) directly from the Alexa Developer Console.

Today we welcome a community expert—Gal Shenar, founder of Stoked Skills and creator of popular skills like Escape the Room and Wordplay—to share his best practices for building premium content with in-skill purchasing.

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.

Many people have asked us where to start with designing an Alexa skill, and we think we’ve found a great method that anyone can use to design a voice experience, from ideation to validation.