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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)

Managing Cosmos DB

Just like Microsoft Azure App Service for Node.js, you do not need to worry about backing up and scalability. Microsoft Azure provides an easy-to-use user interface to configure your Cosmos DB to handle much higher demand. Here, I am assuming that when you have greater demands for your database, it means that lots of users are using your application and that you are makings lots of money. This is the beauty of Microsoft Azure—that you start with free stuff and, if you are making money, you can increase your capacity and performance by simply configuring services to meet demand.

Scaling out Cosmos DB

When there is high demand for Cosmos DB, you will need to properly scale out. In Cosmos DB settings...