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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

Developing actions for Google Home


Google provides a developer tool to build Google Home actions / Google Assistant applications. The underlying NLU on the Google Assistant is called Dialogflow (previously known as api.ai, which was acquired by Google in 2016).

In this tutorial, I will focus on the Dialogflow tool available for building conversational applications.

  1. Create your account or log in: To start building actions, you will need to open an account on Google Actions. Visit https://console.actions.google.com/ and use your Google account to log in. If needed, create a new free account.

  2. Add/import your project: To start a new project or import a project you have built separately, click on the large square box.

  3. Name your project: Name your project and decide on the location. Once you have more than one project, you will have a gallery of projects that you can further build and manage. Pick a name that is relevant for the project, so it will be easy to follow up on. When done, click on CREATE...