Voice Applications for Alexa and Google Assistant, 1 edition

Book Description To create their own voice "skills," users need to learn some new device toolkits, the basics of Voice UI design, and some emerging best practices for building and deploying on these diverse platforms.
Voice Applications for Alexa and Google Assistant guides readers in the exciting world of designing, building, and implementing voice-based applications for Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant! They learn how to build their own "skills"—the voice app term for actions the device can perform—from scratch.
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Content

1. Introduction to voice first
2. Building a call-and-response skill on Alexa
3. Designing a voice user interface
4. Using entity resolution and built‑in intents in Alexa skills
5. Making a conversational Alexa skill
6. VUI and conversation best practices
7. Using conversation tools to add meaning and usability
8. Directing conversation flow
9. Building for Google Assistant
10. Going multimodal
11. Push interactions
12. Building for actions on Google with the Actions SDK