November 27, 2019

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Can you roll your own virtual assistant?

Can you roll your own virtual assistant?

Creating sophisticated, intelligent applications that listen and respond in natural language is getting easier. Greg Bulmash walks you through building a cross-platform application that works on both mobile and desktop clients and uses Amazon's Lex and Polly services to perform a number of useful tasksand a few entertaining ones.
Talk Title Can you roll your own virtual assistant?
Speakers Greg Bulmash (Amazon Alexa)
Conference O’Reilly Open Source Convention
Conf Tag Making Open Work
Location Austin, Texas
Date May 8-11, 2017
URL Talk Page
Slides Talk Slides
Video

Creating sophisticated, intelligent applications that listen and respond in natural language is getting easier. Amazon’s Lex and Polly pack the power of Alexa’s voice recognition, AI, and speech synthesis into a robust set of APIs, allowing developers to create specialized virtual assistants. Greg Bulmash walks you through building a cross-platform application that works on both mobile and desktop clients, using Lex and Polly to perform a number of useful tasks—and a few entertaining ones.

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