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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)

Working with Amazon Echo

In Chapter 5, Deploying the Fortune Cookie App to the Google Home, you learned about Google Home devices, which listen for the wake words OK Google and respond to user requests. Similarly, Amazon Echo devices listen to the wake word Alexa and respond to user requests, providing relevant answers. Amazon Echo and Google Home compete in the voice-controlled device space and both provide marketplaces for developers to submit voice user interface applications that handle specific tasks. For Google Home, you learned to build the FAQ chatbot and the Fortune Cookie. In this chapter, you will build a cooking application that helps the user learn how to cook. The concepts you will learn range from building Alexa skills using the ASK for the Amazon Echo analogues to building intents using Dialogflow for Google Home. If you are thinking of monetizing your voice user...