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Eric Willis

Amazon Lex — Build conversational voice & text interfaces

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Ben Tossell
The same deep learning technologies (ASR – Automatic Speech Recognition NLU – Natural Language Understanding) that power Amazon Alexa available to you for use in your own conversational applications Bot – A bot contains all of the components of a conversation. Intent – An intent represents a goal that the bot’s user wants to achieve (buying a plane ticket, scheduling an appointment, or getting a weather forecast, and so forth). Utterance – An utterance is a spoken or typed phrase that invokes an intent. “I want to book a hotel” or “I want to order flowers” are two simple utterances. Slots – Each slot is a piece of data that the user must supply in order to fulfill the intent. Slots are typed; a travel bot could have slots for cities, states or airports. Prompt – A prompt is a question that asks the user to supply some data (for a slot) that is needed to fulfill an intent. Fulfillment – Fulfillment is the business logic that carries our the user’s intent. Lex supports the use of Lambda functions for fulfillment.
Chintamani Chintadripettai
@bentossell apart from getting a foot in the door, what is the innovation here? How would you say this is better than ms bot framework or watson conversation, just to name a couple?
Eric Willis
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You can use Amazon Lex to build chatbots and other types of web & mobile applications that support engaging, lifelike interactions.
Hicham Tahiri
@erictwillis hello Eric, is Lex also aimed for Alexa Skills creation ?
Simon Dingle
Timing couldn't be better! Just started a new project and wasn't happy with the other options out there. Looking forward to seeing if Lex fits the bill for us. 🙌🏽
James Requa
Sorta shocked this got so few upvotes! This is pretty big news and a really useful way to leverage Amazon's deep learning tech (the same that they use in Alexa).
Parker Woodward
Would have been great to power comment responses in this thread by Amazon Lex
Tucker Kline
Amazon has been on a tear recently. Smarter chat (and voice) bots are definitely part of the future, happy to see products like this popping up.
Manindra Majumdar
How does it compare to Microsoft Bot Framework? https://dev.botframework.com/
orliesaurus
I just feel like Bots turned into the Big Data of 2004
Ali R. Tariq
Super impressed by the volume of forward-thinking products Amazon is spitting out.
Abhilash Jain
This is huge, coming from Amazon!
Arasuvel
This is huge. Really Impressed.
Gene Fan
Looks great, can't wait to play with it!