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Building Bots with Microsoft Bot Framework

You're reading from   Building Bots with Microsoft Bot Framework Creating intelligent conversational interfaces

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786463104
Length 424 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kishore Gaddam Kishore Gaddam
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Preface 1. Setting up Microsoft Bot Framework Dev Environment FREE CHAPTER 2. Developing Your First Bot Using the Connector and Builder SDK 3. Developing WeatherBot Using Dialogs and LUIS 4. Natural Speech and Intent Processing Bot Using Microsoft Cognitive Services 5. Developing Bots Using LUIS Prompt Dialogs with State and Nearby Bot Using Custom APIs 6. Developing an IVR Bot for a Bank Using Advanced Microsoft Bot Framework Technologies 7. Intelligent Bots with Microsoft Bot Framework and Service Fabric 8. Developing Intelligent Facial Expression Identification Bot for IoT Using Azure and Power BI 9. Publishing a Bot to Skype, Slack, Facebook, and the GroupMe Channel

Developing an IVR Bot for a Bank Using Advanced Microsoft Bot Framework Technologies

The Bank Interactive Voice Response (IVR) bot is like phone banking you can do bank transactions from within the bot itself. This bot will have options such as create account, balance enquiry, credit card payment, and delete account. The Bank IVR bot can tell you the balance of your account. It can also pay your credit card bill as well, by just selecting a few options.

In this bot, we will mainly use the Conversation Concept using FormFlow and dialogs. For example, whenever a user enters some text, the bot will immediately send a response message and also remember the entire conversation. Unlike dialogs, FormFlow helps to handle guided conversations such as ordering a sandwich, booking a movie ticket, setting up an appointment with a doctor, and so on. These types of scenarios need lots of effort.

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