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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)

Preface

Today the voice technology is being integrated into many mobile devices such as iOS Siri, Android Google Assistant and Windows Phone Cortana allowing you to perform mobile phone tasks using the voice commands. The voice technology is even coming into our home through Amazon Echo and Google Home allowing you to control home appliances like bedroom lights or opening the garage door. Also you can use your voice in your car allowing you to perform hands free tasks like making a call, texting and playing a music.

This book is designed to help you understand and create voice user interfaces for Google Assistant, Google Home, Android Auto and Amazon Echo. It will help you understand the natural language processing platforms like Alexa and Dialogflow and create Node.js middle tier REST API that will fulfill the platforms' requests. Furthermore, you will take advantage of the cloud technology to deliver your infrastructure back-end needs in order to help deliver your application faster and reliably.