Episode 112 - Beyond the Assistants: Getting Input

Two Voice Devs

English - September 15, 2022 15:00 - 53 minutes - 48.7 MB
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If you're building your own #VoiceFirst app outside the assistants, you'll also need to think about how you get input from people. Fortunately, there are a number of tools available from AWS and Google Cloud (and others) that will help you do this. Mark and Allen go over the raw technologies involved in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Natural Language Understanding / Processing (NLU / NLP), how they work (broadly speaking), and some thoughts on what needs to be done for the future.

Resources mentioned:

Google Cloud Speech-to-Text - https://cloud.google.com/speech-to-text
Google Dialogflow - https://cloud.google.com/dialogflow
Amazon Lex - https://aws.amazon.com/lex/
Jovo Keyword NLU plugin - https://www.jovo.tech/marketplace/plugin-keywordnlu