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Voice Applications for Alexa and Google Assistant
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Voice Applications for Alexa and Google Assistant

by Dustin Coates
July 2019
Intermediate to advanced
264 pages
7h 33m
English
Manning Publications
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1 Introduction to voice first

This chapter covers

  • Understanding voice first
  • Designing for voice
  • Picturing how computers listen to speech
  • Understanding how computers speak

The best technologies come to our lives in two ways: gradually, and then suddenly. This is how it went with voice. For decades we dreamed of computers with whom we could speak. We gradually got some of that, though it was particularly domain-specific and not something most people interacted with daily. Then, all of a sudden, a product came from Amazon that has millions of people wondering how they ever got by without it. The Echo brought voice-first computing to our daily lives.

If you’re reading this book, you’re probably already aware of the draw of voice-first platforms. ...

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