Amazon Lex is a development platform for building intelligent assistants or chatbots. With Amazon Lex, we are building our own custom intelligent assistant capabilities. Lex itself provides many AI capabilities, including Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Natural Language Understanding (NLU), that are useful for building conversational interfaces. However, developers must follow Lex's development constructs, conventions, and norms to leverage these underlying AI capabilities.
These Amazon Lex conversational interfaces are built from Lex's specific building blocks:
- Bot: A Lex bot can perform a set of related tasks through the custom conversational interfaces. A bot organizes the related tasks into a unit for development, deployment, and execution.
- For example, to make the tasks available to the applications, they...