The preceding two chapters focused solely on Amazon Alexa and building Alexa Skills. The next three chapters will teach you how to build chatbots using Amazon Lex. In this chapter, we'll learn how to build and test a Lex chatbot and then we'll step things up by integrating S3.
Amazon Lex is very similar to Amazon Alexa but the main difference is that Lex has been designed to primarily work as a typed interaction. This means that you can use Lex to power Facebook messenger bots, add functionality to Slack, or even send text messages to your users. This doesn't stop you from using Lex for voice interactions and it can be used to build voice-based chatbots outside of the Amazon Alexa ecosystem.
The following topics will be covered in this chapter:
- Creating a Lex chatbot with slots and built-in responses
- Creating an FAQ chatbot...