Connecting the pieces

Until now, we have seen all the different APIs, mostly as individual APIs. The whole idea behind the Smart-House application is to utilize several APIs at the same time.

Throughout this chapter, we will add a new intent in LUIS. This intent is for getting the latest news, optionally for different topics.

Further on, we want to actually search for news, using Bing News API. We will do so by allowing the end user to speak a command, converting spoken audio to text, with the Bing Speech API.

When we have some news articles, we want to get the headline, publishing date, and description. In case there is a corresponding image to the article, we want to get a description of the image. We will do this by adding the Computer Vision API.

With all the news article information in place, we want to get that read back to us. We will do this by converting text to spoken audio.

Creating an intent

Let us start by adding our new intent. Head over to https://www.luis.ai, and log on with...