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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

Understanding Chatbots

To create successful chatbots using Alexa or Lex, you first need to understand the components that make up a chatbot. These parts can then be used to create conversation diagrams and flow diagrams, helping visualize the user's path through the conversation. Being able to have this map for the user's conversation makes building chatbots far easier and quicker.

Toward the end of the chapter, we will also introduce Alexa and Lex and have a look at their similarities and differences. We'll also have a quick look at some of the use cases for each of them.

The chapter will explain the following topics:

  • Introducing chatbots
  • Designing conversation flow diagrams
  • Best practices
  • Amazon Alexa and Amazon Lex
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Hands-On Chatbot Development with Alexa Skills and Amazon Lex
Published in: Sep 2018
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781788993487
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