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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

Summary


The FB Messenger platform offers developers and businesses a huge opportunity to communicate with their clients and increase their automated customer support and services, leveraging an existing communication environment that doesn't require the end user to get familiar with new technologies or solutions. However, the development tools that FB is offering today should become more mature and robust, and I expect to see a tighter integration of Wit.ai with the FB Messenger platform in the near future. FB's failure to provide an easy-to-use tool to develop its bots gave rise to some startup companies bridging this need by offering aesthetically pleasing and user-friendly interfaces that are available for non-developers as well.

While it started out with a great vision and mission, in practice, FB Messenger failed to deliver an advanced conversational experience and pushed the industry back into the classic web graphic UI, controlled by menus and pre-made selections.

As an industry leader...