Alexa Skills Kit > Get Started
Building Alexa Skills can seem difficult at first, but with right resources and guidance, anyone can create a skill. Our beginner's guide to building Alexa skills answers basic questions about skills and skill development, helps you decide what to build, and shows you where to start. Get step-by-step instructions on creating a simple skill, with tips on design, coding, testing, and certification. Start learning today, no experience required.
Courses in this learning path :
Alexa skills foundations
In this course, you will learn fundamentals of Alexa skills and voice design. You will learn about how customers use skills, and discover key resources to guide you as you begin. This course will set you up for success as you start your skill builder journey.
Duration : ~ 1 hr
Build your first Alexa skill
In this course, you will learn to use the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) developer console to create a simple custom skill. Follow alongwith simple step-by-step instructions to learn the steps, and then use your hands-on experience to build your own skill.
Duration : ~ 2-3 hrs
Basics of Alexa skill certification
This course teaches you the fundamentals of Alexa skill certification. You learn to recognize and navigate around common challenges to make sure that your skill successfully passes the certification process.
Duration : ~ 45 min
Getting Started With Alexa | Part 1 | Introduction to Alexa skills
Join our Chief Technical Evangelist Jeff Blankenburg for an introduction to skills, how they work, and what you'll need to know as you get started building your own.
Getting Started With Alexa | Part 2 | Capturing a user's intent
Learn how to design, structure, and test a skill's voice model to effectively capture the user scenarios you want your skill to handle.
Getting Started With Alexa | Part 3 | Responding to your user
Learn how to implement the code required for your skill to respond to a user, tying in the design of your interaction model and including data elements to add interesting capabilities.
Getting Started With Alexa | Part 4 | How to certify, publish, and improve a skill
Learn the steps required to prepare your skill for submission to be certified, how to track your skill's performance with analytics, and highlight some key features to improve the customer experience.
Alexa Innovators
In our Alexa Innovators series, we catch up with developers, founders, and influential creators to see how they got started and leveraged Alexa to optimize their products through skills.
Devs & Coffee
In this video series, we sit down with successful Alexa developers to hear stories about their journey with voice and the skill creation process. These unscripted and authentic conversations provide you with best practices, expert tips, industry trends and insider secrets into what has worked for them—and what hasn't.
