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Voice User Interface Projects

By : Henry Lee
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Voice User Interface Projects

By: Henry Lee

Overview of this book

From touchscreen and mouse-click, we are moving to voice- and conversation-based user interfaces. By adopting Voice User Interfaces (VUIs), you can create a more compelling and engaging experience for your users. Voice User Interface Projects teaches you how to develop voice-enabled applications for desktop, mobile, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. This book explains in detail VUI and its importance, basic design principles of VUI, fundamentals of conversation, and the different voice-enabled applications available in the market. You will learn how to build your first voice-enabled application by utilizing DialogFlow and Alexa’s natural language processing (NLP) platform. Once you are comfortable with building voice-enabled applications, you will understand how to dynamically process and respond to the questions by using NodeJS server deployed to the cloud. You will then move on to securing NodeJS RESTful API for DialogFlow and Alexa webhooks, creating unit tests and building voice-enabled podcasts for cars. Last but not the least you will discover advanced topics such as handling sessions, creating custom intents, and extending built-in intents in order to build conversational VUIs that will help engage the users. By the end of the book, you will have grasped a thorough knowledge of how to design and develop interactive VUIs.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Hosting, Securing, and Testing Fortune Cookie in the Cloud

In the previous chapter, the built-in Node.js server in Dialogflow was used to create a Fortune Cookie Webhook that responds to the user inquiries. In this chapter, you will learn how to deploy Node.js webhook code to the Microsoft Azure cloud. Traditionally, to build a server to deploy web application code required extensive knowledge of networking and server hardware. However, Microsoft Azure makes it very easy to build a virtual server with a click of a button, bypassing the need to build a physical server and set up complex networking. This chapter will cover various Microsoft Azure offerings in order to deploy Node.js code and, even as a novice, you will be able to perform complex network administrator tasks as if you were an expert. Learning how to use Microsoft Azure will give you a taste of what it's like...