Seems like these chat bots have A LOT of lock in. So the question is which one to pick? This one? IBM Watson? Others? Which horse are you betting on and why?<p>Amazon making this is great because it's developer friendly and will surely fall in price and improve in quality over time. They also have to make it work well because it's a critical ordering channel for them going forward.<p>Seems like IBM has been focused on this for years though? Worried they will try to make this a profit center though... rather than continually dropping the price.<p>Other companies working on this I should be aware of?<p>Thoughts?
Are there any open source project like this? I would imagine it's a machine learning model to match intent and then a custom NER that extracts slots. I'm sure the actual models are pretrained on lots of data, and the process is probably a lot more complex. Given the abundance of vendors in this space, it has to at least be a possibility .
Making the backend of Alexa and offering it to users is a killer feature. I have toyed with the idea of making an app with a voice interface. I was able to make an alexa app and looking at the preview pictures it looks similar.
This is neat but I've been on the lookout for a service that takes <i>speech</i> and responds with <i>speech</i> that you can use in a domain-specific app.<p>Basically, Alexa as a service?<p>Is there something out there that does this?<p>For certain things that require hands-free usage, this would be a killer feature.<p>ex. a workout-app that tells you your next rep and weight, and you can respond with what weight/reps you did to add to your log!
Does anyone have experience with the Web Speech API? <a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/demos/speech.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/demos/speech.html</a>
What speech engines are behind these? Do they run in the browser?
I want to implement speech input commands for an SPA for 3D design. Thanks.
>you know how simple, useful, and powerful the Alexa-powered interaction model can be.<p>This is so comical. Alexa is phenomenally bad at conversation, it is so bad that there are almost no successful "apps" built around it despite having an API and app platform.<p>Alexa is decent at single command/action model nothing more than that.
It's great to see so much competition in this space. This initial offering looks limited in its ability to handle more complex branching and context building but hopefully it will evolve. I'm also a little surprised at the pricing given that Google and Facebook offer comparable services for free.
Very nice! With all the great things they've announced today that apply to my work (Lightsail, Rekognition, Athena), I'm crossing my fingers that their next announcement is making speech recognition available as a separate API. And Python 3 support for Lambda.
It's great to see the utterence/intent/slot model to be available outside of Alexa. It's been easy to work with so far in Alexa. And you see a similar model from Nuance with Mix, though Mix seems to be stuck in beta.<p>Lex looks alot like Alexa though the setup flow is a bit different. Also has prompts for each slot needed. That's nice.