These features make it easier to select the right combination of Alexa technologies, define the customer experience, and bring your next product to market.
| Product/Feature Name | Description | Relevant Links |
|---|---|---|
| AVS SDK 3.0 | AVS SDK 3.0 enables developers and device makers to develop rich, multimodal experiences for their devices.. | Blog |
These features make it easier to design new skills, build personalized experiences, and drive growth and monetization opportunities.
| Theme | Product/Feature Name | Description | Relevant Links |
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| Drive business growth | Alexa Shopping Kit | The Alexa Shopping Kit is a comprehensive suite of features that will enable skill builders to embed shopping experiences within their skills and earn money in the process. | Blog Docs-Alexa Shopping Actions Sign up for 'Add to List' Shopping Action |
| Drive business growth | Alexa Routines Kit | Alexa Routines Kit enables skill builders to surface pre-built routines to their customers when they interact with their skill. Instead of creating routines from scratch, customers can enable these pre-built routines through simple voice consent and make their favorite skills a part of their daily lives. | Blog Docs Sign up |
| Drive business growth | Alexa Skill Deals | Skill builders will have the ability to set up a discount on their In-Skill Purchases (ISP) and Paid Skills. Customers benefit from a skill deal as they get to experience premium content within a skill (through ISP) or the skill itself (if a paid skill) for a longer period of time at a discounted price. | Docs |
| Drive business growth | Promoted Skills | Promoted Skills provide a simple way for skill builders to set up paid campaigns to promote or advertise their skills on Alexa. | Learn more Sign up |
| Drive business growth | Skill Developer Accelerator Program (SDAP) | The Skill Developer Accelerator Program (SDAP) is an incentive-based program for building high quality skills and grow your business with Alexa. | Blog |
| Drive business growth | Voice-forward Account Linking (Login with Amazon (LWA)) | With Voice-forward Account Linking, customers can easily link the account that they have with the skill builder on other channels with their Alexa account using just voice consent. They can then use voice to sign-in to the skill using Login with Amazon (LWA) and obtain access to personalized content. | Docs |
| Enable high quality customer experiences | Alexa for Apps SDK | Create a voice assistant for your mobile app and implement search, navigation, and custom interactions. | Learn more Sign up |
| Enable high quality customer experiences | APL Accessibility Guide | The APL Accessibility Guide is designed to help developers build experiences that are accessible and delightful to customers who are blind or have visual impairments | Docs |
| Enable high quality customer experiences | APL Audio (APLA) Templates | This feature helps developers ramp up quickly on new APLA concepts with full samples. | Docs |
| Enable high quality customer experiences | APL best practices for developers | APL best practices for developers provides guidance on how to build performance-optimized APL templates. | Docs |
| Enable high quality customer experiences | Dialog Testing Tool | The Dialog Testing Tool API enables you to create automatic test-sets to evaluate multi-turn dialogs while handling skill response variations due to random slot filing and Alexa Presentation Language for Audio (APLA), and prevents your integration tests from failing incorrectly. | Sign up |
| Enable high quality customer experiences | Food Skills API | Food Skills API leverages the state-of-the-art techniques in conversational AI to make it easier for restaurants to connect with customers and get food to table in new and convenient ways. | Learn more |
| Enable high quality customer experiences | Multimodal Response Builder | Multimodal Response Builder brings multiple steps to create a visual response for your skill into one guided walkthrough in as little as 15 minutes. | Docs Learn more |
| Enable high quality customer experiences | Skill Quality Coach | The Skill Quality Coach provides developers with a step-by-step approach for building high quality skills with tailored guidance and feedback. | Blog Docs |
| Enable high quality customer experiences | Voice-forward Account Linking (non-Login with Amazon (LWA)) | Voice-forward Account Linking allows customers to use voice to guide the skill account linking setup and removes the dependency on the Alexa app. In this case, account linking will be pursued by customers using their email address or phone number and does not need the use of 'login with Amazon' as the identity provider. | Learn more Sign up |
| Reduce developer friction | Alexa Learning Lab | The Alexa Learning Lab is an e-learning product that enables Alexa developers to learn how to build Alexa skills by engaging in practical hands-on learning. | Learn more |
| Reduce developer friction | Code Sandbox | Code Sandbox is a new “show me” feature that lets developers view and edit live APL examples in the APL tech docs. | Docs Learn more |
| Reduce developer friction | Developer Portal Updates | Try out the new developer console search experience, providing search functionality across multiple sites such as Amazon, GitHub, and YouTube for easy discovery of resources. | Learn more |
| Reduce developer friction | Skill Components | Skill Components are “ready to use” experiences that you can easily add to your skills built using Alexa Conversations, and configure them according to your needs. | Learn more Sign up |
| Reduce developer friction | Unified Developers experience across Alexa Conversations (AC) and Interaction Model (IM) | Unified developer experience across Alexa Conversations and Interaction Model eliminates the one-way-door decisions for developers and reduces the learning curve for developers to adopt our dialog manager capabilities. | Learn more |
These features make it easier to build smart home products that customers can control from millions of Alexa devices.
| Product/Feature Name | Description | Relevant Links |
|---|---|---|
| Alexa Ambient Dev Home Kit | Alexa will soon extend its smart home capabilities with the Alexa Ambient Dev Home Kit. This feature allows an Alexa customer to add an account-linked skill as a second Matter Admin to a device which already has Alexa as a Matter Admin. | Blog Learn more |
| ACK SDK for Matter | Device makers will soon be able to build Matter-compliant devices with cloud-based business intelligence and device lifecycle management using ACK SDK for Matter. | Blog |
| Matter | Customers can soon add your Matter devices to almost all Echo and eero devices. Developers can build Matter-differentiating features such as Frustration-Free Setup, commissionable endpoints, and certify their devices for Works with Alexa (WWA) certification for a delightful and familiar customer experience. | Learn more |
