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Voicebot and Chatbot Design

You're reading from   Voicebot and Chatbot Design Flexible conversational interfaces with Amazon Alexa, Google Home, and Facebook Messenger

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789139624
Length 296 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rachel Batish Rachel Batish
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Conversational UI is our Future 2. How Not to Build Your Next Chat and Voicebots FREE CHAPTER 3. Building a Killer Conversational App 4. Designing for Amazon Alexa and Google Home 5. Designing a Facebook Messenger Chatbot 6. Contextual Design – Can We Make a Bot Feel More Human? 7. Building Personalities – Your Bot Can Be a Better Human 8. A View into Vertical-Specific Bots – Financial Institutions 9. Travel and E-Commerce Bots – Use Cases and Implementation 10. Conversational Design Project – A Step-By-Step Guide 11. Summary Other Book You May Enjoy Index

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As we outlined earlier in the book, the bot's goal is to replace human-human communication. The correspondence should be on a human level, and we went through the required parameters in this chapter as well as in previous ones.

In the next chapter, we will talk about how bots act compared to humans. What kind of "non-human" are they? What is their unique persona and how can we make the user trust them?

Before we build their personality, we should also think about how we can help our bots to understand not only the context of a conversation, but also its psychology and tone. In what emotional state is the user? Are they happy or angry? What is their tone like, based only on their text or voice?

This is called emotional intelligence. It is by far a less advanced field compared to AI, but it is one of utmost importance, especially for businesses who would like to make sure they understand the emotional status of their clients when they respond and interact with an automated solution...

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