Episode description
The show is back from the summer break! Today we're exploring the trending topic of conversational UX with Jonathan Stark, a famous mobile consultant and author. You'll learn the basic principles behind voice interfaces and chatbots, what makes them so powerful and personal, and what tools you can leverage in this new environment.
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Show Notes- Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript — Jonathan's book with O'Reilly
- Hourly Billing is Nuts — Jonathan's book on pricing your services
- It's Alive — Facebook chatbot builder
- Amazon AI — Amazon's service for natural language understanding (NLU), automatic speech recognition (ASR), visual search and image recognition, text-to-speech (TTS), and machine learning (ML)
- Applying Built-in Hacks of Conversation to Your Voice UI — video from Google I/O 2017
- Crafting a Conversation — a walk-through guide from Actions on Google
- API.AI — a tool for building conversational experiences
- Shakespeare — Jonathan's prototyping project
- Jonathan's website
- Follow Jonathan on Twitter: @jonathanstark
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