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Hands-On Chatbot Development with Alexa Skills and Amazon Lex

You're reading from   Hands-On Chatbot Development with Alexa Skills and Amazon Lex Create custom conversational and voice interfaces for your Amazon Echo devices and web platforms

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788993487
Length 266 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sam Williams Sam Williams
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Preface 1. Understanding Chatbots FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started with AWS and Amazon CLI 3. Creating Your First Alexa Skill 4. Connecting Your Alexa Skills to External APIs 5. Building Your First Amazon Lex Chatbot 6. Connecting a Lex Bot to DynamoDB 7. Publishing Your Chatbot to Facebook, Slack, Twilio, and HTTP 8. Improving the User Experience for Your Bots 9. Review and Continued Development 10. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix A 1. Appendix B

Creating an FAQ chatbot

Now that we've learned how to make a Lex chatbot, we can start to build something that you are more likely to see in the real world. FAQ chatbots are becoming more and more popular; they are relatively simple to create and are a great way to introduce a chatbot to a website or Facebook group.

To start creating an FAQ chatbot, we need to find an FAQ page to base this on. Most company websites have an FAQ page now so you can find the FAQ page for a company that interests you, or follow along with me on CircleLoop (circleloop.com). This site was chosen because it is where I work and it has the questions in three groups. If you are only doing this for practice, you can use any website, but if you want to publish your chatbot, ask the permission of the company. You never know, they could end up paying you for it eventually!

CircleLoop is also good as it...

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