5. Using Speech with the Chatbot

Activity 5.01: Creating a Custom Bot and Connecting the Bot with Amazon Connect

Solution:

This is an activity that combines what we learned in the previous chapters. Try to complete the activity on your own and refer to the solution as needed. You will make mistakes and will encounter things that do not seem to work. This is all part of learning an interesting domain. If you build and test it incrementally, the development will be easier and there will be fewer moving parts.

Step 1: Creating an S3 Bucket and storing balance.txt

1. First, navigate to the Amazon S3 service from https://aws.amazon.com/, and then navigate to My Account – AWS management Console-Services-Storage-S3. Click Create bucket:

   Figure 5.35: S3 bucket creation for user account balance

   For the Bucket name, type in account-balance, and then click Create.

   Note

   The bucket names in AWS have to be unique. Otherwise, you will get a Bucket name already exists error. One easy...