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Voicebot and Chatbot Design

By : Rachel Batish
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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

Find the direct path to initial success


Voice control and CUI are not that new. There were a few attempts in the past to make them possible and even the good old Nokia feature phones had voice control capabilities. However, since the technology was still immature, most of those trials didn't succeed. With zero patience for failure, after one or two unsuccessful tries, users just moved on or fell back to the web or mobile apps.

Interactive voice response (IVR) systems are also a good example of a voice-controlled solution and a promising idea with a really bad implementation. In fact, more than 80% of IVR users say they hate the experience (https://www.nice.com/engage/blog/Everybody-Hates-IVR-2183). So how do we find the direct path to success?

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#1

Help your users to ask the right questions.

Although this sounds obvious, it is actually crucial to the success of your chatbot or voicebot. I learned that when I initially set up my Amazon Echo device at home. Using a complementary mobile app...