Building a Conversational Speech Interface
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This document discusses building a conversational speech interface using IBM Watson. It describes how computer speech and vision will allow more advanced artificial intelligence by empowering applications through natural language. It provides steps to create a conversational interface using IBM Watson's speech to text, natural language processing, and text to speech components. Examples are given of how conversational interfaces could be used for internet of things control, customer service chatbots, mobile apps, messaging bots, computer control, and robots.
Building a Conversational Speech Interface
- 1. Empower your applications and devices with natural language. BUILDING A CONVERSATIONAL SPEECH INTERFACE
- 2. TODAY’S EXAMPLE Conversational interface using IBM Watson 10xnation.com/conversational-interface-ibm-watson
- 3. TIPPING POINT A quick note… Computer speech is 1 of the 2 critical technologies that will allow artificial intelligence empower our world in ways we’ve only dreamed of. (Computer vision is the 2nd)
- 4. BACKGROUND
- 5. THE PROBLEM Point and click gets old..and it doesn’t scale.
- 7. NOTE This is deceptively simple, but incredibly powerful. A signature of the most impactful technologies.
- 8. COMPONENTS
- 9. IBM WATSON
- 10. WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE
- 11. HOW IT WORKS Conservation Service Application Natural language recognition & responseIBM Watson Cloud Text input Speech to Text Service Spoken input Text output Text to Speech Service Spoken output
- 12. PRICING Conversation Speech to Text Text to Speech Free tier ● 1000 API queries per month (3 workspaces, 25 intents) Free Tier ● 100 mins per month (includes telephony) Free Tier ● 1M characters per month Production ● $0.0025 per API call (20 workspaces, 2000 intents) Production ● $0.02 per min Production ● $0.02 per 1000 characters
- 13. THE GUIDE
- 14. STEP BY STEP GUIDE 10xnation.com/conversational-interface-ibm-watson
- 17. ENABLE SPEECH TO TEXT
- 18. ENABLE TEXT TO SPEECH
- 19. FIRE IT UP
- 20. ENHANCEMENTS ● Google searches: ibm.com/watson/developercloud/doc/retrieve-rank ● Etc. The only limit is your imagination.
- 21. WHERE CAN IT BE USED?
- 22. INTERNET OF THINGS Interact and control your smart home, smart car, smart office, etc. devices through natural language.
- 23. CUSTOMER SERVICE Chatbot on website (or phone, etc.) automatically answering FAQs for visitors.
- 24. MOBILE APPS Empower your users to control the app functions via natural language.
- 25. MESSAGING Create a chatbot to interact with users on Twitter, Slack, Facebook Messenger, etc.
- 26. COMPUTER CONTROL Work on your computer using natural language.
- 27. ROBOTS Empower robots with natural language understanding and interaction.
- 28. CLOSING
- 29. WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS? How much simpler would your world be if you could simply tell all the things in your life what you want them to do.
- 30. UNLEASH YOUR BUSINESS EMBRACE EXPONENTIAL 10xnation.com