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Building Bots with Microsoft Bot Framework

By : Kishore Gaddam
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Building Bots with Microsoft Bot Framework

By: Kishore Gaddam

Overview of this book

Bots help users to use the language as a UI and interact with the applications from any platform. This book teaches you how to develop real-world bots using Microsoft Bot Framework. The book starts with setting up the Microsoft Bot Framework development environment and emulator, and moves on to building the first bot using Connector and Builder SDK. Explore how to register, connect, test, and publish your bot to the Slack, Skype, and Facebook Messenger platforms. Throughout this book, you will build different types of bots from simple to complex, such as a weather bot, a natural speech and intent processing bot, an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) bot for a bank, a facial expression recognition bot, and more from scratch. These bots were designed and developed to teach you concepts such as text detection, implementing LUIS dialogs, Cortana Intelligence Services, third-party authentication, Rich Text format, Bot State Service, and microServices so you can practice working with the standard development tools such as Visual Studio, Bot Emulator, and Azure.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Developing an IVR Bot for a Bank Using Advanced Microsoft Bot Framework Technologies

The Bank Interactive Voice Response (IVR) bot is like phone banking you can do bank transactions from within the bot itself. This bot will have options such as create account, balance enquiry, credit card payment, and delete account. The Bank IVR bot can tell you the balance of your account. It can also pay your credit card bill as well, by just selecting a few options.

In this bot, we will mainly use the Conversation Concept using FormFlow and dialogs. For example, whenever a user enters some text, the bot will immediately send a response message and also remember the entire conversation. Unlike dialogs, FormFlow helps to handle guided conversations such as ordering a sandwich, booking a movie ticket, setting up an appointment with a doctor, and so on. These types of scenarios need lots of effort.

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