Recently Amazon announced a contest to evaluate the best Alexa skills, running on the Echo and optionally the Echo Show whilst targeting kids under the age of 13. Novoda is always up for a challenge. Here is what we built. At Novoda we have a mission statement: Together on a
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The latest Google Developer Days conference was held in Krakow on 5th and 6th of September 2017, where Google announced the latest news for Google Assistant developers. This post aggregates all that information for you and helps explain how to build your perfect action. Contextual understanding If you currently trigger
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My esteemed colleague Flo and I recently worked on a television guide bot using api.ai + Amazon's AWS backend service to experiment with the capabilities of Voice User Interfaces (VUI). In this blog post I’ve covered the design process we followed to enable voice interfaces in an existing product
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