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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

Chapter 5. Designing a Facebook Messenger Chatbot

Chatbots and voicebots both fall into the conversational UI category. In the previous chapter, we talked about designing and building voice user experience and interface. Next, we will go back to the design of textual bots, focusing on the Facebook (FB) Messenger platform. With the promise of enabling a "connection to 900 million people on the Messenger platform" and with the goal to "take over sales and customer service functions," FB has the target of revolutionizing the world of chatbots. Indeed, FB revealed at the F8 2018 conference that its platform runs 300,000 bots (https://venturebeat.com/2018/05/01/facebook-messenger-passes-300000-bots/), with more than 8 billion messages sent each day! This is four times more than in 2017.

Around 200,000 developers have used the FB Messenger platform to enable their bots, and that number continues to grow. FB puts a lot of emphasis on the Messenger platform and continues to add features and capabilities...