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Voicebot and Chatbot Design

By : Rachel Batish
Book Image

Voicebot and Chatbot Design

By: Rachel Batish

Overview of this book

We are entering the age of conversational interfaces, where we will interact with AI bots using chat and voice. But how do we create a good conversation? How do we design and build voicebots and chatbots that can carry successful conversations in in the real world? In this book, Rachel Batish introduces us to the world of conversational applications, bots and AI. You’ll discover how - with little technical knowledge - you can build successful and meaningful conversational UIs. You’ll find detailed guidance on how to build and deploy bots on the leading conversational platforms, including Amazon Alexa, Google Home, and Facebook Messenger. You’ll then learn key design aspects for building conversational UIs that will really succeed and shine in front of humans. You’ll discover how your AI bots can become part of a meaningful conversation with humans, using techniques such as persona shaping, and tone analysis. For successful bots in the real world, you’ll explore important use-cases and examples where humans interact with bots. With examples across finance, travel, and e-commerce, you’ll see how you can create successful conversational UIs in any sector. Expand your horizons further as Rachel shares with you her insights into cutting-edge voicebot and chatbot technologies, and how the future might unfold. Join in right now and start building successful, high impact bots!
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Voicebot and Chatbot Design
Contributors
Preface
Other Book You May Enjoy
Index

Google Home


Amazon's first-mover advantage resulted in an imposing 94% market share by Q3 2016. However, since then, Google Home has shown some growth in the market, reaching a little over 34%. Some predictions show that Google Home will take over Amazon Alexa by 2022 (see the following graph).

Figure 4: The smart speaker market and the predictions for Google Home (from Voicebot.ai)

Google Home is the brand of smart speakers that is developed by Google. The first device was released in the United States in November 2016.

Figure 5: The Google Home: a late bloomer?

Google Home's speakers, just like its competitors, enable users to speak voice commands to interact with services. The voicebot behind Google Home, which takes the form of an intelligent personal assistant, is called the Google Assistant. The Google Assistant is also available on most of the new Android phones and can be downloaded on Apple's devices.

In the same way as Amazon Alexa does, Google Home offers both in-house and third-party...