Category: Artificial Intelligence

Listen to this post Voiced by Amazon Polly This is a guest post by Yiannis Philipopoulos, a Software Developer at Bandwidth. In Yiannis’ words: “Bandwidth’s solutions are shaping the future of how we connect with voice and messaging for mobile apps and large-scale, enterprise-level solutions. At the core of Bandwidth’s business-grade Communications Platform as a […]

To increase the accuracy of speech recognition for conversations over the phone, Amazon Lex now supports telephony audio (8 kHz). You can now employ the same deep learning technology as Amazon Alexa to converse with your applications and fulfill the most common requests. Amazon Lex maintains context and dynamically manages the dialogue, adjusting responses based […]

The Kelley Blue Book Bot allows users to get real-time Kelley Blue Book® Trade-In Value for vehicles using natural language. Users can interact with the chatbot in both voice and text. A simple question like, “Kelley Blue Book, can you tell me the trade-in value for my 2012 Honda Civic?” is all that is needed […]

Note: AWS released Amazon Rekognition Video on November 29, 2017 which is now the preferred approach for analyzing videos and finding distinct people. Nevertheless, we continue to make this blog post available for educational purposes on how to use Amazon Rekognition. Amazon Rekognition makes it easy to detect, search for, and compare faces in images […]

This is a guest post by Michael Wray, senior software architect at Inhealthcare. Founded in 2012, Inhealthcare has created a digital infrastructure which supports remote home monitoring for the entire UK population. Listen to this post Voiced by Amazon Polly   With an aging population that continues to grow, healthcare is being changed forever. Are […]

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 The machine learning models are out of date and people are complaining, but no one is looking past […]

Listen to this post Voiced by Amazon Polly It’s New Year’s Eve. Your friends and loved ones have gone to the party, but you can’t go just yet because you haven’t figured out how to track the key performance indicators for your New Year’s resolution. You’ve already divided your resolution into categories, and you’ve set […]

Ever since we released Amazon Lex, customers have asked us how to embed voice into a web application. In this blog post, we show how to build a simple web application that uses the AWS SDK for JavaScript to do that. The example application, which users can access from a browser, records audio, sends the […]

Listen to this post Voiced by Amazon Polly Just as Dan Brown has captivated millions of readers through countless plot twists and turns, the launch of his new novel, Origin, will lead you along an inspired journey that guarantees to speak to you and draw you in. Literally. The 2003 best-selling author of The Da […]

Is your Amazon Lex chatbot ready to talk to the world? When it is, chances are that you’ll want it to be able to interact with as many users as possible. Amazon Lex offers built-in integration with Facebook, Slack and Twilio. But what if you want to connect to a messaging service that isn’t supported? […]