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Voice User Interface Projects

You're reading from   Voice User Interface Projects Build voice-enabled applications using Dialogflow for Google Home and Alexa Skills Kit for Amazon Echo

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788473354
Length 404 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Henry Lee Henry Lee
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Preface 1. Introduction FREE CHAPTER 2. Building an FAQs Chatbot 3. Building a Fortune Cookie Application 4. Hosting, Securing, and Testing Fortune Cookie in the Cloud 5. Deploying the Fortune Cookie App for Google Home 6. Building a Cooking Application Using Alexa 7. Using Advanced Alexa Features for the Cooking App 8. Migrating the Alexa Cooking Application to Google Home 9. Building a Voice-Enabled Podcast for the Car 10. Hosting and Enhancing the Android Auto Podcast 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Working with built-in Intents

Building an intent to capture user requests can be a complex task because the task requires you to build utterances and slots. Luckily, Alexa provides built-in intents that you can utilize without having to do lots of upfront work. You can find many of the built-in intents at https://amzn.to/2xgf3j8. In this section, you will take advantage of AMAZON.HelpIntent, which gets triggered when the user says alexa ask henry's kitchen help me. From the server, you will be able to capture the help intent by filtering the request for req.body.request.type === 'IntentRequest' && req.body.request.intent.name === 'AMAZON.HelpIntent'. You can further enhance the help intent by adding your own utterances from the Alexa skill builder console.

  1. Open a browser and go to the Alex skill builder console at https://developer.amazon.com...
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