Amazon's new beta for developing Alexa skills is centered around build, test, launch, and measure phases.

Amazon today is rolling out the biggest makeover for its Alexa Skills Kit Developer Console – the console where voice app developers create their skills – since its debut back in 2015.

To get started, developers can review a new exam guide, which helps them learn about Alexa skill building through tutorials, technical documentation and more.

This is the latest move by Amazon to simplify Alexa skill development for developers. On Tuesday, Amazon released a public beta of the Skills Management API and the Alexa Skills Command-Line Protocol.

Learn how to build your own Alexa skills with Amazon's tools. You can even share your new skills with friends or publish them to the Alexa Skills Store.

The program, which dates back to 2017, offers free AWS credits and monthly checks to Amazon app developers with popular Alexa Skills. The money stops flowing on June 30.

Alexa Blueprints lets you create your own Amazon Alexa skill for customized stories, quizzes, and more. And now you can publish them on the Alexa Skills Store.

How to create private Alexa skills without code Amazon's Alexa Skills Blueprints let anyone with an Alexa device make household skills.

Today is a good day to go voice-first, as Amazon released guidance on tools, agencies, and analytics for its smart digital assistant technology, Alexa.

Alexa developers create code for a skill’s voice user interface in Amazon’s developer console, as opposed to in HTML and CSS on a web server.