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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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7 Using conversation tools to add meaning and usability

This chapter covers

  • Making skills users can connect with in their own way of speaking
  • Adding Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) and speechcons
  • Using rate, pitch, and volume, and specifying pronunciation
  • Making responses more natural with discourse markers

The first six chapters of this book provided you with the knowledge you need to build a skill that is more feature-rich and more polished than 90% of the skills available to users. This chapter helps you go further, such as using SSML to aid in understanding and usability, or using discourse markers to imbue meaning and make more natural responses.

7.1 Discourse markers

“Okay, what do we do now?”

“Well, we can go back to the ...

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