Introduction to voice first -- Building a call-and-response skills on Alexa -- Designing a voice user interface -- Using entity resolution and built-in intents in Alexa skills -- Making a conversational Alexa skills -- VUI and conversation best practices -- Using conversation tools to add meaning and usability -- Directing conversation flow -- Buidling for Google Assistant -- Going multimodal -- Push interactions -- Building for actions on Google with the Actions SDK.
Summary:
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.
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