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Voice User Interface Projects

You're reading from   Voice User Interface Projects Build voice-enabled applications using Dialogflow for Google Home and Alexa Skills Kit for Amazon Echo

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788473354
Length 404 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Henry Lee Henry Lee
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Preface 1. Introduction 2. Building an FAQs Chatbot FREE CHAPTER 3. Building a Fortune Cookie Application 4. Hosting, Securing, and Testing Fortune Cookie in the Cloud 5. Deploying the Fortune Cookie App for Google Home 6. Building a Cooking Application Using Alexa 7. Using Advanced Alexa Features for the Cooking App 8. Migrating the Alexa Cooking Application to Google Home 9. Building a Voice-Enabled Podcast for the Car 10. Hosting and Enhancing the Android Auto Podcast 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Learning about Google Home's features

With a Google Home device, you can do many interesting things. First, you can use a Google Home device just like a typical search engine. Anything you would type to get a search result from Google, you can simply ask using your voice. Another thing I like to do is listen to music using Spotify, so you can link your favorite music to Google Home. If you have not done this, you can go to the Google Home application, go to the menu, select the music menu, and add your favorite music provider.

The following screenshot shows the Google Home application menu for adding a music provider:

Google Home setup—music menu

Another feature that I use almost every day is the wake-up alarm by saying Hey Google set my alarm every day at 8:30 am. I also like to review my calendar events or create new events by saying Hey Google what's my schedule...

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