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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)

Microsoft Cognitive Services

Initially, Microsoft Cognitive Services was known as Microsoft Project Oxford. It is also known as suite of intelligent APIs and works across platforms which provide facial recognition in images, voice recognition of speakers, language processing, Academic Knowledge, and more. All these APIs are RESTful services. Owing to REST services, you can develop and integrate with any programming language; here, we use C#.

You must try out all the APIs that are available and just play around. For example, APIs such as Face, Emotion, and Speaker recognition will always return a confidence rating/value for each emotion identified in a given image from Face & Emotion APIs. In the case of Speaker recognition, it will tell you how much it accurately matches the voice to your previously registered voice. The best machine learning example API is Language Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS)....