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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

Building multiple personas


We have mentioned the possibility that your bot is serving more than just one target audience. In many cases, you can't identify your users, but in cases where you can, it can be useful to assign different bots to different users. Why is this necessary? While the general business logic of the bot may not change, the conversational flow and the content or information provided may differ to the extreme.

Let's take, for example, a banking bot. It is clear that an interaction with a millennial will be different compared to an interaction with a retiree. Their topics of interest will be different since they have different needs and different prospects. This is why what the bot offers should also diverge. Also, the way that they interact, their voice and style, and choice of wording will be different. A human agent would be able to identify those differences immediately and react to them accordingly, and so should your bot.

While it makes everything a bit more complicated...

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