will play a significant marketing role —eMarketer 33% of US internet users will use voice assistants —eMarketer >85% of customer interactions will be managed without a human —Gartner Conversational experiences are the future By 2019 By 2020 By 2021
Invoke “Air France” action “Hi! Would you like to book a trip?” Speech to Text “Yes, I’d like to fly from Paris to SFO tomorrow” Text to Speech “Sure, here’s Air France” Speech to Text, NLP, Knowledge Graph, ML Ranking, User Profile Text to Speech “I found one flight, AF84, tomorrow at 10:10am”
leave? A natural conversation that learns from past exchanges CONTEXT → remember the details of the conversation Air France flight 84 departs at 10:10am FULFILLMENT → Call some business logic on a remote URL