When Amazon announced the Alexa Skills Challenge: Multimodal, Cameron Sheedy saw an opportunity to develop a rich multimodal user experience he could be really proud of. Read the story in this blog post.

Two Interspeech papers report a system that transfers prosody — inflection and rhythm — from a recorded speaker to a synthesized voice and a neural vocoder that works with any speaker.

Alle Skills, die im Alexa Skills Store veröffentlicht werden, müssen zuvor einen Zertifizierungsprozess durchlaufen. Die zertifizierten Skills erfüllen die Anforderungen an Sicherheit, Datenschutz, Zertifizierungs-Richtlinien, Funktionalität und die korrekte Entwicklung der Sprachoberfläche.

Read the blog to learn how Ursu created Fork On The Road, an engaging multimodal skill that helps users choose between multiple options by combining an engaging voice-first experience with three-dimensional graphics.

Voice User Interfaces (VUIs) take up more mental resources than Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs), because information is auditory and presented serially, whereas in a GUI information is visual and presented at once.

Today, we are excited to introduce new developer tools that enable you to connect gadgets, games, and smart toy products with immersive skill-based content—unlocking creative ways for customers to experience your product. This is made possible using Custom Interfaces.

Based on embeddings, system suggests named entities — or "slot values" — that developers might want their skills to recognize.

みなさまが開発されたAlexaスキルはスキルストアへの公開に当たり、Alexa審査チームが規定された要件をもとに認定審査をさせていただき、 スキルがよいユーザー体験をお届けできるよう必要に応じてフィードバックをさせていただいています。このブログではスキルを申請いただいた際に、特に改善の指摘を受けている項目について紹介します。今回は「スキル内課金」についてです。

What's new in the Alexa Skills Kit for July 2019? Read our release roundup blog to find out.

Charlie Cadbury, CEO of Say It Now, has adapted alongside technology since 1999 when he sold his first website. Today, Say It Now is a group of enterprise natural language processing (NLP) experts building out conversational strategies and products alongside Fortune 500 companies.