Summary
Voice Applications for Alexa and Google Assistant is your guide to
designing, building, and implementing voice-based applications for Alexa
and Google Assistant. Inside, you'll learn how to build your own
"skills"--the voice app term for actions the device can perform--from
scratch.
Foreword by Max Amordeluso.
Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and
ePub formats from Manning Publications. You'll find registration
instructions inside the print book.
About the Technology
In 2018, an estimated 100 million voice-controlled devices were
installed in homes worldwide, and the apps that control them, like
Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant, are getting more powerful, with new
skills being added every day. Great voice apps improve how users
interact with the web, whether they're checking the weather, asking for
sports scores, or playing a game.
About the Book
Voice Applications for Alexa and Google Assistant is your guide to
designing, building, and implementing voice-based applications for Alexa
and Google Assistant. You'll learn to build applications that listen to
users, store information, and rely on user context, as you create a
voice-powered sleep tracker from scratch. With the basics mastered,
you'll dig deeper into multiuse conversational flow and other
more-advanced concepts. Smaller projects along the way reinforce your
new techniques and best practices.
What's inside
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Building a call-and-response skill
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Designing a voice user interface
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Using conversational context
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Going multimodal
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Tips and best practices
About the Reader
Perfect for developers with intermediate JavaScript skills and basic
Node.js skills. No previous experience with voice-first platforms is
required.
About the Author
Dustin A. Coates is a developer who focuses on voice and
conversational applications. He's currently the voice search lead at
Algolia and is also a Google Developers Expert for Assistant as well as
cohost of the VUX World podcast.
Table of Contents
- Introduction to voice first
- Building a call-and-response skill on Alexa
- Designing a voice user interface
- Using entity resolution and built?in intents in Alexa skills
- Making a conversational Alexa skill
- VUI and conversation best practices
- Using conversation tools to add meaning and usability
- Directing conversation flow
- Building for Google Assistant
- Going multimodal
- Push interactions
- Building for actions on Google with the Actions SDK
