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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 on Amazon Alexa


Amazon provides a developer console for developers to build their Alexa skills. Recently, Amazon also launched Alexa Blueprint, which lets non-developers build "personal skills" for home and game use cases.

In this tutorial, I will focus on the stages to build an Alexa skill for business use cases.

  1. Create or sign in to your Amazon Developer account: Before you can build your Alexa skill, you will need to go to the Amazon Developer portal (http://developer.amazon.com/) and open a (free) account. If you already have an account, just click on the Sign in button.

    Figure 10: Developing a skill on the Amazon Developer portal

  2. Create your skill: To start building your skill, click on one of the Create Skill buttons, as demonstrated in the following figure:

  3. Name your project: Give your skill a name. This is still just the name of your project and not the name your users will use to start a conversation with your skill. In the following example, I named my skill ...