Release Notes (VSK Echo Show)
The following tables provide release notes for VSK for Echo Show devices.
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| May 1, 2022 | Directives payload upadate. The VSK directives payload has been updated to deprecate some categories of IDs. |
| August 12, 2021 | New country and language support. Launched support of video skills for German in Austria (de-DE), Spanish in the US (es-US), and Hindi in India (hi-IN). |
| June 30, 2021 | New country and language support. Launched support of video skills for Australia (en-AU), New Zealand (en-AU), and Ireland (en-GB). |
| August 10, 2020 | New entity types. Three new entity types were added: Popularity, Recency, and VideoResolution). Entity types provide more detail about the type of request the user is making. In addition to including documentation for these new entity types, the documentation was updated to include entity types that were previously missing: (Channel, Episode, Director, ProductionCompany, and App). |
| July 27, 2020 | Doc navigation. Some documentation updates were made. VSK for Fire TV and VSK for Echo Show were split off into their own navigation, making them easier to view and navigate. Utterances were moved from the certification step to an Utterances Reference for easier navigation, with a Utterances Overview included as well to clarify different aspects of the utterances. Additionally, the list of supported utterances across every locale was updated with the latest confirmed implemented utterances in natural language understanding algorithms that Alexa uses. Versions were also listed for utterances. |
| May 13, 2020 | en-AU support. Support for video skills in Australia (en-AU) entered public beta. For more details, see Supported Countries. |
| April 10, 2020 | displayContext. Launched displayContext object as part of the GetDisplayableItemsMetadata API. For details, see Retrieve Image Size Data from the mediaIdentifier Object. |
| February 07, 2020 | pt-BR support. Support for video skills in Brazil (pt-BR) launched. For more details, see Supported Countries. |
| January 7, 2020 | Reference Video Skill. Launch of Reference Video Skill (Alexa Video Multimodal Reference Software). |
| November 19, 2019 | es-MX support. Support for video skills in Mexico (es-MX) launched. For more details, see Supported Countries. |
| October 31, 2019 | fr-FR support. Support for video skills in France (fr-FR) and Spain (es-ES) launched. For more details, see Supported Countries. |
| September 10, 2019 | it-IT support. Support for video skills in Italy (it-IT) released. For more details, see Supported Countries. |
| August 15, 2019 | ja-JP and de-DE support. Support for video skills in Japan (ja-JP) and Germany (de-DE) released. For more details, see Supported Countries. |
| August 14, 2019 | en-CA support. Support for video skills in English-speaking Canada locales (en-CA) released. For more details, see Supported Countries. |
| July 10, 2019 | de-DE beta. Beta support for video skills in Germany (de-DE) launched. For more details, see Supported Countries. |
| May 2, 2019 | en-GB support. Support for video skills for multimodal devices in the UK (en-GB) launched. For more details, see Supported Countries. |
Last updated: Jun 15, 2022