Hands-On Chatbots and Conversational UI Development: Build chatbots and voice user interfaces with Chatfuel,Dialogflow,Microsoft Bot Framework,Twilio,and Alexa Skills
Authors: Srini Janarthanam
ISBN-10: 1788294661
ISBN-13: 9781788294669
Released: 2017-12-29
Print Length 页数: 392 pages
Book Description
Build over 8 chatbots and conversational user interfaces with leading tools such as Chatfuel,Dialogflow,Microsoft Bot Framework,Twilio,Alexa Skills,and Google Actions and deploying them on channels like Facebook Messenger,Amazon Alexa and Google Home
Conversation as an interface is the best way for machines to interact with us using the universally accepted human tool that is language. Chatbots and voice user interfaces are two flavors of conversational UIs. Chatbots are real-time,data-driven answer engines that talk in natural language and are context-aware. Voice user interfaces are driven by voice and can understand and respond to users using speech. This book covers both types of conversational UIs by leveraging APIs from multiple platforms. We’ll take a project-based approach to understand how these UIs are built and the best use cases for deploying them.
We’ll start by building a simple messaging bot from the Facebook Messenger API to understand the basics of bot building. Then we move on to creating a Task model that can perform complex tasks such as ordering and planning events with the newly-acquired-by-Google Dialogflow and Microsoft Bot framework.
We then turn to voice-enabled UIs that are capable of interacting with users using speech with Amazon Alexa and Google Home.
By the end of the book,you will have created your own line of chatbots and voice UIs for multiple leading platforms.
What You Will Learn
Design the flow of conversation between the user and the chatbot
Create Task model chatbots for implementing tasks such as ordering food
Get new toolkits and services in the chatbot ecosystem
Integrate third-party information APIs to build interesting chatbots
Find out how to deploy chatbots on messaging platforms
Build a chatbot using MS Bot Framework
See how to tweet,listen to tweets,and respond using a chatbot on Twitter
Publish chatbots on Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa
contents
1 Introduction
2 Tour Guide for Your City
3 Let’s Talk Weather
4 Building a Persona Bot
5 Let’s Catch a Train
6 Restaurant Search
7 The News Bot
8 My TV Guide
9 My Man Friday
