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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

What your bot shouldn't be


Now that we know the purpose of chatbots and voicebots, it can help us to understand the fundamentals of one of the most common mistakes made by chat designers and developers, which eventually leads to all other mistakes: developing conversational UI based on their application's GUI.

A bot's experience should not imitate your web/app experience; it should mimic your agent, which is your service provider – a human!

Rather than leveraging voice and conversational capabilities by replicating real-world interactions, many bot developers and designers try to imitate the behavior of previous human-computer UIs and, more specifically, those of digital channels, such as websites/mobile apps. Instead of building a voice UX that reflects the conversations we generally have with our banker or our travel agent, developers force conversational UIs to imitate bank mobile apps or websites.

Figure 1: Don't replicate the web experience

A successful conversational UI will bring the...