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Building Bots with Microsoft Bot Framework

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Product type Book
Published in May 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786463104
Pages 424 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Kishore Gaddam Kishore Gaddam
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters close

Preface 1. Setting up Microsoft Bot Framework Dev Environment 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

Microsoft Cognitive Services

Initially, Microsoft Cognitive Services was known as Microsoft Project Oxford. It is also known as suite of intelligent APIs and works across platforms which provide facial recognition in images, voice recognition of speakers, language processing, Academic Knowledge, and more. All these APIs are RESTful services. Owing to REST services, you can develop and integrate with any programming language; here, we use C#.

You must try out all the APIs that are available and just play around. For example, APIs such as Face, Emotion, and Speaker recognition will always return a confidence rating/value for each emotion identified in a given image from Face & Emotion APIs. In the case of Speaker recognition, it will tell you how much it accurately matches the voice to your previously registered voice. The best machine learning example API is Language Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS)....

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