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Hands-On Chatbots and Conversational UI Development

You're reading from   Hands-On Chatbots and Conversational UI Development Build chatbots and voice user interfaces with Chatfuel, Dialogflow, Microsoft Bot Framework, Twilio, and Alexa Skills

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788294669
Length 392 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Srini Janarthanam Srini Janarthanam
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Preface 1. Introduction FREE CHAPTER 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 10. More Resources

Amazon Alexa

Amazon Alexa has its own development platform that allows developers to teach it new skills. Skills are nothing but conversational capabilities that can be custom-built into Alexa using a combination of Amazon's toolkit with our own. You do not actually need the Amazon Echo smart speaker to get started, but it would be great if you had one. Amazon Echo comes in three sizes: Amazon Echo, Amazon Echo Dot, and Amazon Echo Show. Echo Dot is the most basic version and is priced at £49 at the time of writing. This would suffice for a developer to develop and test custom-developed skills:

Source:Amazon.co.uk

The Alexa ecosystem also includes a skill store where custom skills can be published. Published skills can be browsed and installed on your Alexa, thereby adding to Alexa's skill set. This can be done either on Alexa's companion website...

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