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AI as a Service
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AI as a Service

by Peter Elger, Eoin Shanaghy
September 2020
Intermediate to advanced
328 pages
8h 37m
English
Manning Publications
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5 Adding AI interfaces to a web application

This chapter covers

  • Speaking a note with Transcribe
  • Reading back a schedule with Polly
  • Adding a chatbot interface with Lex

In this chapter we will build upon the to-do list application from chapter 4, adding off-the-shelf AI capability to the system. We will add natural language speech interfaces to record and transcribe text and to have the system tell us our daily schedule from our to-do list. Finally, we will add a conversational interface to the system, allowing us to interact entirely through a natural language interface. As we will see, this can be built very rapidly by harnessing cloud AI services to do the heavy lifting.

If you haven’t worked through chapter 4, you should go back and do ...

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