Talking to the Machine

In this talk, I discuss voice integrations and the building blocks to creating natural language interfaces leveraging platforms that exist today. You can play with the demo application following the link below.

https://github.com/rbeene/primary_colors

Transcript

1. TALKING TO THE MACHINE PATTERN MATCHING
2. Communication
5. “The future is now! Soon every American home will integrate their television, phone and computer.” 1996 CABLE GUY
6. Apple Siri 2011 Amazon Alexa 2014 Google Home Nov 2016
7. How We Communicate With Each Other
8. “Alexa, ask amazing app for today’s fun fact.” ____________________ Invocation Name ________________________ Utterance
9. Utterance Intent
10. Voice Data |> decipher_voice |> send_request |> validate_response |> send_response |> generate_response Phoenix API
11. Inbound Request • Request • Context • Session
12. Response • card • output • should end session • session data •directives
14. Transactional Demo
15. What time is it in San Francisco? Slot Value
16. Demo with Slots
17. It’s all about Me OAuth 2 via Authable Responses based on User
18. Elixir Pattern Matching Macros
19. Additional Items Validating User Requests Privacy Policy for User Linked Skills Required Intents: launch, help etc.
20. Choose Your Own Adventure
21. @robert_beene
22. Image Credits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_communication_technology#/media/ File:Timeline_of_communication_tools,_2014_update..jpg http://bizarro.com/comics/october-25-2011/ Cable Guy (1996), screenshot - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115798/ Chose Your Own Adventure: Supercomputer by Edward Packard - screenshot Legend of Zelda by Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka - screenshot