Practical Bot Development: Designing and Building Bots with Node.js and Microsoft Bot Framework

© Szymon Rozga 2018

Szymon RozgaPractical Bot Developmenthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3540-9_10

10. Making the Chat Bot Smarter

Szymon Rozga¹ 

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Port Washington, New York, USA

 

In the previous chapter, we spent time connecting our chat bot’s Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) output into a cloud-based text-to-speech engine to give our chat bot as human a voice as possible. The Bing Speech API that we utilized is an example of what is collectively being called cognitive services . These are typically services that enable more natural human-like interactions with applications. Originally, Microsoft referred to these as Project Oxford.¹ These days, the suite of APIs is now branded as Azure Cognitive Services.

At a more technical level, these ...