Voice Applications for Alexa and Google Assistant

Voice Applications for Alexa and Google Assistant
By 作者: Dustin A. Coates
ISBN-10 书号: 1617295310
ISBN-13 书号: 9781617295317
Edition 版本: 1
Release Finelybook 出版日期: 2019-07-18
pages 页数: (264 )

Book Description to Finelybook sorting

Voice Applications for Alexa and Google Assistant is your guide to designing, building, and implementing voice-based applications for Alexa and Google Assistant. Inside, you’ll learn how to build your own “skills”—the voice app term for actions the device can perform—from scratch.
In 2018, an estimated 100 million voice-controlled devices were installed in homes worldwide, and the apps that control them, like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant, are getting more powerful, with new skills being added every day. Great voice apps improve how users interact with the web, whether they’re checking the weather, asking for sports scores, or playing a game.
Voice Applications for Alexa and Google Assistant is your guide to designing, building, and implementing voice-based applications for Alexa and Google Assistant. You’ll learn to build applications that listen to users, store information, and rely on user context, as you create a voice-powered sleep tracker from scratch. With the basics mastered, you’ll dig deeper into multiuse conversational flow and other more-advanced concepts. Smaller projects along the way reinforce your new techniques and best practices.
What’s inside

Building a call-and-response skill
Designing a voice user interface
Using conversational context
Going multimodal
Tips and best practices

contents
foreword
preface
acknowledgments
about this book
Chapter 1:Introduction to voice first
Chapter 2:Building a call-and-response skill on Alexa
Chapter 3:Designing a voice user interface
Chapter 4:Using entity resolution and built-in intents in Alexa skills
Chapter 5:Making a conversational Alexa skill
Chapter 6:VUI and conversation best practices
Chapter 7:Using conversation tools to add meaning and usability
Chapter 8:Directing conversation flow
Chapter 9:Building for Google Assistant
Chapter 10:Going multimodal
Chapter 11:Push interactions
Chapter 12:Building for actions on Google with the Actions SDK
appendix A:Adding an AWS IAM profile
appendix B:Connecting DynamoDB to a Lambda function