When you build your first Alexa skill, you’ll likely have a few questions. To help you out, we’ve compiled some of the most frequently asked questions and answers that we’ve received from developers about to build their first Alexa skills.

Amazon today announced that Alexa, the brain that powers the Echo family of devices, is coming to amazon.es, along with Alexa-enabled devices: Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, Echo Plus, Echo Sub and Echo Spot, and Amazon Smart Plug.

Now you can use 27 different Amazon Polly voices in your Alexa skills.

How do you know if your Alexa skill should be conversational? Learn about the four hallmarks of conversational design, and then start ideating for conversation in our new self-paced training course.

Every developer who submits a skill for certification has the opportunity to share feedback via a survey we send with their certification results. Based on the results of this survey, we’ve identified a few common certification pain points that are relatively easy to avoid.

With a variety of in-skill products to offer, it’s important to think about which one can help you best enhance your skill through premium content.

今年5月Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) SDK for Node.jsのバージョン2（以下：V2）がリリースされました。そこでV1からV2へ移行を考える方が多いと思います。先週行われたAlexa Dev Days Tokyoで沢山のAlexaスキルデベロッパーとお会いする中で、これに関連した質問をいただきましたので、ご紹介します。

Before you dive into creating conversational skills, you'll need to spend some time understanding conversation and the elements of communication.

Jeff Bolton has a catalog of 88 Alexa skills. When in-skill purchasing became available, he saw an even greater opportunity to monetize his popular skills by delivering premium experiences.

The entire AWS re:Invent 2018 session catalog is now live! Explore more than 50 Alexa technical sessions and then register to attend.

Today, we’re excited to announce that developers can start building voice experiences, called “skills,” for French Canadian customers using the Alexa Skills Kit with the Canadian French voice model.

This tutorial will show you how you can add support for the French (Canada) model for your existing skills. It will also show you how you can use ASK to enable Alexa to respond based on locales.

The more customers you reach, the more likely they are to discover and engage with your skill. Therefore, we always suggest developers localize and publish skills in as many languages as possible. Follow these steps to localize your Alexa skill.

Discover three ways you can add in-skill purchasing to your Alexa skills using the Alexa Skills Kit Command-Line Interface, and two great skill-building tools from Storyline and Voice Apps.

We're so excited for the possibility of voice, that we've launched a new and free self-paced course called Designing for Conversation to help you get started building natural interactions.