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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

Development and testing


The development of our conversational application is where R&D takes on the most important role. Whether building solutions from scratch or using some of the available solutions and toolkits, R&D will be responsible for translating our conversations into code, delivering the business logic across all channels and devices.

To be able to build the solution, R&D, based on the preceding work, will build a technical flow, which will take into consideration multiple scenarios and requirements. Those flow charts, or for voice solutions, Voice User Interfaces (VUI), are based on specific building blocks that represent certain functionalities.

You can use Google Drawings for that or any of the available solutions on the market. The following flowchart is an example of a request loan rate conversational flow, which takes into consideration the need for authentication.

Figure 7: Building the business logic: preparing the conversational flow for R&D to program

The...