Voice User Interface Projects : Build Voice-Enabled Applications Using Dialogflow for Google Home and Alexa Skills Kit for Amazon Echo.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright and Credits -- Dedication -- Packt Upsell -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Technological advancement of VUIs -- First-generation VUIs -- Boom of VUIs -- History of VUIs on mobile devices -- History of VUIs for Google Home -- History of VUIs in cars -- Basic design fundamentals of VUIs -- What are VUIs and why are they important? -- Role of NLP in VUIs -- VUI design platforms -- Principles of conversation -- Turn taking -- Flow -- Context -- Verbal confirmation -- Visual confirmation -- Error handling -- Session awareness -- Providing help -- Response time -- Empathy -- Voice-enabled applications -- Home assistant devices -- Automobile virtual assistant devices -- Chatbots -- Future of VUIs -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Building an FAQs Chatbot -- Why an FAQs chatbot? -- Introduction to Dialogflow -- Setting up a Dialogflow account -- Creating your first agent -- About an FAQs chatbot -- What are intents? -- Creating your first intent -- What are entities? -- Using entities -- Using JSON to create entities -- About action -- What is context? -- Creating your first context -- No context -- Testing context and no context scenarios -- What is Google Assistant? -- Installing Google Assistant on iPhone and Android -- Configuring Google Assistant on Android and iPhone -- Deploying FaqChatBot to Google Assistant -- Configuring FaqChatBot -- Machine learning in Dialogflow -- Machine learning classification threshold -- Training data -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Building a Fortune Cookie Application -- About the Fortune Cookie project -- About webhook -- Installing Visual Studio Code -- Setting up an agent -- Checking security and the service account -- Enabling webhook -- Deploying and testing webhook -- Working with logs -- Building Fortune Cookie VUIs -- Building a Get Quote intent.

Handling the Get Quote intent from the Webhook -- Building a Get Quote based on the user feelings -- Building a Feeling entity -- Building events to get Feeling-based quotes -- Building a Custom Welcome intent -- Building a get feeling custom follow-up intent -- Writing code for a feeling custom follow-up intent -- Building a Get Fortune Cookie by an author -- Building an Author entity -- About rich response -- Creating a text response -- Creating an image response -- Creating quick replies -- Creating a card response -- Creating a listSelect response -- Building a Get Authors intent -- Building a listSelect response in code -- Building a Get Author Quote intent -- Building a Get Author Quote intent's webhook -- SSML and audio integration -- Integrating SSML and audio to Default Welcome intent -- Testing the default welcome intent SSML and audio sound -- Using Analytics -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Hosting, Securing, and Testing Fortune Cookie in the Cloud -- What is the Microsoft Azure cloud platform? -- Fortune Cookie architectural topology in Microsoft Azure -- Deploying a Fortune Cookie webhook to Microsoft Azure -- Updating Fortune Cookie's Node.js webhook code -- Testing a webhook locally -- Creating a web.config to run Node.js in Microsoft Azure -- Creating Microsoft Azure App Service to host a Node.js webhook -- Configuring Dialogflow webhook -- Securing the Node.js webhook for Dialogflow -- Storing Quotes in Cosmos DB -- Creating Cosmos DB -- Importing the Fortune Cookie quotes -- Updating the Node.js webhook to use Cosmos DB -- Installing a new component on Microsoft Node.js -- Managing the Microsoft Azure Node.js service -- Creating a backup of the service -- Scaling up or scaling out -- Managing Cosmos DB -- Scaling out Cosmos DB -- Geo-replicating Cosmos DB -- Creating end-to-end tests using the Dialogflow client SDK.

Setting up the Dialogflow client SDK -- Enabling the Dialogflow API for Fortune Cookie -- Creating a test script using the Dialogflow client SDK -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Deploying the Fortune Cookie App for Google Home -- Setting up Google Home for the first time -- Learning about Google Home's features -- Adding a home control device to Google Home -- Deploying Fortune Cookie to Google Home -- Certifying an application for the marketplace -- Learning about general guidelines -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Building a Cooking Application Using Alexa -- Introducing the ASK -- Building a Henry's Kitchen Alexa skill -- Setting up the ASK development environment -- Creating an Alexa skill -- Creating wake up words -- Building slots -- Building intents -- Building utterances -- Creating a web service endpoint to handle skill requests -- Deploying and debugging the web service endpoint -- Configuring and testing the endpoint in the Alexa console -- Debugging the endpoint locally -- Working with Amazon Echo -- Setting up and testing in Amazon Echo -- Viewing history in Amazon Echo -- Backing up the Alexa skill -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Using Advanced Alexa Features for the Cooking App -- Logging application events and data -- Setting up an Azure Blob storage -- Setting up application logging in the cooking application -- About dialog interfaces -- Building GetCookingIntent dialog models -- Handling the GetCookingIntent dialog model in code -- Deploying and testing the GetCookingIntent dialog model -- Working with built-in Intents -- About dialog states -- Coding the state management -- Submitting cooking app to Amazon marketplace -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Migrating the Alexa Cooking Application to Google Home -- Comparing an Alexa Skills Kit and Dialogflow agent -- Comparing an Alexa Skill to a Dialogflow agent -- Comparing intent -- Comparing slots to entities.

Converting the Henry's Kitchen Alexa Skill to Dialogflow -- Creating the agent -- Converting slots to entities -- Converting Alexa intents to Dialogflow intents -- Enabling a webhook -- Creating a webhook to handle Dialogflow -- What code is reused? -- Setting up a Dialogflow router -- Setting up a Dialogflow webhook entry point -- Refactoring the BuildGetCookingInstruction function -- Refactoring the GetOffset function -- Deploying and testing Henry's Kitchen -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Building a Voice-Enabled Podcast for the Car -- Learning about Xamarin -- Setting up the development environment -- Creating a new Xamarin project -- Setting up the Xamarin project for Android Auto -- Building Android Auto MyPodCast -- Building MusicService -- Implementing MusicService (Android MediaBrowserService) -- Implementing MusicPlayer -- Building MusicProvider -- Building an Android Media Player UI -- Testing Using Android Phone -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Hosting and Enhancing the Android Auto Podcast -- Enhancing a MusicProvider -- Creating a Node.js backend server -- Creating and adding the podcasts to the Microsoft Azure blob storage -- Refactoring the GetSource() method in MusicProvider -- Testing Android Auto using the Desktop-Header unit -- Testing the Podcast's Application in the Car -- Basic Voice Commands -- Certifying Android Auto -- Summary -- Other Books You May Enjoy -- Index.

The future of user interfaces is moving away from touch based and mouse clicking web interfaces to voice and conversational based user interfaces. This book will take you on a journey from getting started with voice apps to building your very own smart assistants which not only understand voice commands but respond to them.

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