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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)

Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to deploy your Node.js fulfillment code to Microsoft Azure, which allows you to take advantage of a highly available and highly scalable platform, helping you not to worry about the complex network topology or complex server deployments. Now, you can simply focus on building your voice user interface projects and easily deploy middle-tier components to the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. You also learned how to persist your data in Microsoft NoSQL Cosmos DB, allowing you to create separation of concerns between your data and code so that you can dynamically update your data in the database without needing to update your code. Furthermore, we covered basic skills for managing Cosmos DB and the Node.js service in Microsoft Azure. Finally, you learned how to create an end-to-end test script in Node.js using the Dialogflow client SDK.

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