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Episode 112 - Beyond the Assistants: Getting Input

Episode 112 of the Two Voice Devs podcast, hosted by Mark and Allen, titled "Episode 112 - Beyond the Assistants: Getting Input" was published on September 15, 2022 and runs 53 minutes.

September 15, 2022 ·53m · Two Voice Devs

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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

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
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