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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)

Summary

In this chapter, you have learned the following:

  • IoT Hub: Azure IoT Hub is a fully managed service that helps us to enables reliable and secure bidirectional communications between millions of IoT devices
  • Stream Analytics: It is a fully managed event-processing engine in the cloud
  • Power BI: With the help of Power BI, you can analyze and visualize your important data and it always work with real-time data
  • Storage Account: It provides one place to store all your data
  • Cognitive Services: The Face API will detect human faces and tag them as people, also do face detection, identification, verification, similar face search, and face grouping
  • Emotion API: It analyzes faces to identify the emotions of a person is feeling and also detects facial expressions in an image

In the next chapter, you will learn about registering bots with Bot framework, and also how to publish bots to Slack, Skype, GroupMe, and Facebook...