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Programming Voice Interfaces
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Programming Voice Interfaces
by Bob Lautenbach
Published by O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2017
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Programming Voice Interfaces
Programming Voice Interfaces
Preface
1. Introduction to Voice Interfaces and the IoT
2. Existing APIs and Libraries
3. Getting Started with AVS
4. Iterate: Evolve the Prototype
5. A Different Approach Using IoT Core and API.AI
6. What Else Can We Do?
Index
About the Authors
Colophon
Preface
Who Should Read This Book
Conventions Used in This Book
O’Reilly Safari
How to Contact Us
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction to Voice Interfaces and the IoT
Welcome to a NUI World
Voice All the Things!
What Is NLP?
Speech-to-Text (STT)
Text-to-Speech (TTS)
PLS, SSML, and Other Acronyms
Experience Design
Purpose
One-Off Versus Conversational
Conversation Flows
Sample Utterances
Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML)
When to Use Visual Cues
Additional Design Considerations
Decisions, Decisions...
2. Existing APIs and Libraries
Amazon Alexa
Alexa Skills Kit (ASK)
Alexa Voice Service (AVS)
Amazon Lex
Amazon Polly
Microsoft Cognitive Services, Cortana, and More
Google Cloud Speech API
Other Notable Services
Technical Architecture
Conceptual Architecture
Application Architecture
Conclusion
3. Getting Started with AVS
Tools and Things
Preparing Your Pi
Amazon AVS Configuration
Navigating the Amazon Developer Console
AVS Setup
Get the Code!
But How Does It All Work?
Working with a Button and LEDs
What’s in the Resources Directory?
Customizing the Success Page
Deeper Look at the AVS Requests
Conclusion
4. Iterate: Evolve the Prototype
Why Iterate?
Intents, Utterances, Slots, and Invocation Names
Amazon Alexa Requests and Responses
Create Your Own API
Alexa “Hello, World” in Node.js
Amazon Developer Portal
Testing Custom Skills on Your Device
What’s Next?
Account Linking
State Management
Bigger Picture
5. A Different Approach Using IoT Core and API.AI
IoT Core
Tools and Things
Preparing Your Pi
Welcome to API.AI
Building an API.AI Agent
Building Our UWP App
The Plan
The Code
Deploying and Testing
What’s Next?
6. What Else Can We Do?
Adding More Inputs
Going to Production
Security Concerns
Quality Management
Support
What’s Next?
Index