Introduction
In the future, user interfaces will move away from being touch-based and mouse-clicking web interfaces to voice and conversation-based user interfaces. On average, a person speaks about 20,000 words a day (http://bit.ly/2GYZ1du), which is the equivalent of reading half a book, and voice commands are 5 times faster to process (http://hci.stanford.edu/research/speech/index.html) than web user interfaces or typing. The huge efficiency of voice commands is attributed to the fact that speaking is natural to everyone. The technological leaps in natural language processing (NLP), thanks to machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI), and increased computing power has made it possible to accurately understand and process complex ...
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