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Creating Voice and Chatbots That Work Everywhere
With all the options out there, creating a voice and chatbot today can be a daunting decision. In this course, you'll take the stress out of figuring it all out by learning how to build a cross-channel conversational bot that works everywhere.
What you'll learn
Do you know how to build a chatbot or a voice interface? Amazon Echo or Google Home? Facebook Messenger or Slack bot? How about all of the above and more? In this course, Creating Voice and Chatbots That Work Everywhere, you'll learn how to build a single conversational interface in C# and the .NET Web API framework that works across all chat and voice channels from Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, Microsoft Cortana, Slack, Facebook Messenger, SMS, and many others. First, you'll explore the overall landscape and conversational flow design concepts. Next, you'll dive into intents and intent handling. Finally, you'll discover advanced debugging techniques using Remote Debugger. When you're finished with this course, you'll not only have a clear understanding of how you can deploy bots across multiple voice and chat channels, but you'll also have a fully functional bot prototype that you can continue to grow and evolve.
Table of contents
- Introduction | 2m 15s
- Changing Times | 1m 16s
- The Big Picture | 1m 43s
- Comparing Channel Connectors | 1m 46s
- Voice Experience Design | 6m 35s
- Creating Accounts - Facebook and Amazon | 2m 16s
- Creating Accounts - Microsoft | 1m 42s
- Creating Accounts - Twilio | 1m 41s
- Creating Accounts - Google and Slack | 1m 15s
- Getting Started with Google API.AI | 1m 7s
- Creating API.AI Agents and Intents | 1m 49s
- API.AI Small Talk and Default Intent Responses | 53s
- The ReservationsIntent and Mapping Entities | 2m 4s
- Creating Follow-up Intents | 1m 23s
- Exporting the ASK Files | 1m 7s
- Recap and What's Next? | 1m 13s
About the author
Walter Quesada is a Software Engineer and Experience Technologist with over 20 years architecting and developing solutions for SMB's to Fortune 500 companies. Although primarily focused on architecting and programming .NET/C# applications, he enjoys some C++, Objective-C, Python, node.js, and Java fun from time to time.
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