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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 8. A View into Vertical-Specific Bots – Financial Institutions

In previous chapters, we discussed the technology limitations and the lack of use of AI in creating "smart bots." While, on the one hand, many platforms today offer an easy and seamless bot-builder process, on the other hand, that same ease of development has introduced us to a huge number of low-functioning bots, which are no different than a simple web form or, a website's navigation tool.

We have learnt by now that bots are not necessarily cognitive and don't always involve AI in their processing, however, it is clear that this is where technology is heading. The possibility of learning from a user's behaviors and needs, and then reacting to and reimplementing those findings for other use cases is a crucial step in the evolution of bots. This is already being done today, to a certain extent, in some of the bots that we have explored in this book, however, as we have noticed, those processes are very siloed and vertical...