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Voice User Interface Projects

By : Henry Lee
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Voice User Interface Projects

By: Henry Lee

Overview of this book

From touchscreen and mouse-click, we are moving to voice- and conversation-based user interfaces. By adopting Voice User Interfaces (VUIs), you can create a more compelling and engaging experience for your users. Voice User Interface Projects teaches you how to develop voice-enabled applications for desktop, mobile, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. This book explains in detail VUI and its importance, basic design principles of VUI, fundamentals of conversation, and the different voice-enabled applications available in the market. You will learn how to build your first voice-enabled application by utilizing DialogFlow and Alexa’s natural language processing (NLP) platform. Once you are comfortable with building voice-enabled applications, you will understand how to dynamically process and respond to the questions by using NodeJS server deployed to the cloud. You will then move on to securing NodeJS RESTful API for DialogFlow and Alexa webhooks, creating unit tests and building voice-enabled podcasts for cars. Last but not the least you will discover advanced topics such as handling sessions, creating custom intents, and extending built-in intents in order to build conversational VUIs that will help engage the users. By the end of the book, you will have grasped a thorough knowledge of how to design and develop interactive VUIs.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Comparing an Alexa Skills Kit and Dialogflow agent

Alexa Skills Kit and Dialogflow serve as development platforms for creating voice applications for Amazon and Google devices such as the Amazon Echo and the Google Home, respectively. The techniques used to create the voice interfaces on both platforms are very similar, and converting from one platform to the other is not very difficult. In this section, each of the components from Alexa and Dialogflow will be presented, with high-level comparisons between them that will help you understand and migrate Alexa skill to Dialogflow agent.

Comparing an Alexa Skill to a Dialogflow agent

Alexa Skill and Dialogflow agent are natural language processing modules that manages the conversation...