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Voicebot and Chatbot Design

By : Rachel Batish
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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

Developing skills and actions


Both Amazon and Google see the value of the developer community as the key to the success of their voice assistants. As such, the two platforms offer development consoles that let developers build and deploy voice applications. In this section, we will focus on the set of tools offered by the Amazon Alexa Developer portal and the Google Assistant, and offer a step-by-step tutorial to get started.

Whether building an Amazon Alexa skill or a Google Home action, those kinds of applications are built to provide answers to the user's requests. With this in mind, when building those skills, we should think of them as being in a Q&A format. This means that we will figure out what the user will say or ask, and then what the response should be.

Here is a simple example: a user says, I need help with my insurance.

Your skill/action responds, Please call us at 1-800-1234-567.

When we analyze the preceding request and response, we build them into the following plan.

Figure...