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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)

Deploying and debugging the web service endpoint

In Chapter 4, Hosting, Securing, and Testing Fortune Cookie in the Cloud, you learned how to deploy the Fortune Cookie Webhook (Node.js server tier) to Microsoft Azure. You will follow the exact same steps to create a Microsoft Azure App Service to host the Henry's Kitchen web service endpoint. When you have successfully created your Microsoft Azure App Service to host the Henry's Kitchen endpoint, you should have a web service address similar to https://myhenrytestapp.azurewebsites.net.

Configuring and testing the endpoint in the Alexa console

Once you are done deploying the endpoint Node.js service to the Microsoft Azure App Service, you will need to set it up in...