Artificial Intelligence
“Greetings, visitor!” — Engage Your Web Users with Amazon Lex
All was well with the world last night. You went to bed thinking about convincing your manager to add some time in the next sprint for much-needed improvements to the recommendation engine for shoppers on your website. The machine learning models are out of date and people are complaining, but no one is looking past […]
Building Better Bots Using Amazon Lex (Part 2)
In Part 1 we reviewed some elementary bot design considerations, built the Amazon Lex CoffeeBot chatbot, and used the Amazon Lex Test console to confirm that CoffeeBot reacted to text input as expected. In this post, we make some more design decisions to take CoffeeBot to the next level, including voice interaction. Note: The code […]
Building Better Bots Using Amazon Lex (Part 1)
As Jeff Barr showed in his introductory blog post, Amazon Lex is a service that allows developers to build conversational interfaces for voice and text into applications. With Amazon Lex, the same deep learning technologies that power Amazon Alexa are now available to any developer, so you can quickly and easily build sophisticated, natural language […]
