WELCOME TO THE AGE OF CONVERSATIONAL INTERFACES!
summary
Argues voice and contextual conversations speed common tasks, and shows a working pipeline: train language models with LUIS, build and run a bot with Microsoft Bot Framework in Visual Studio, test locally with the Bot Framework Emulator, register and publish to Azure, then call Nexmo APIs to send a TFA SMS. Demonstrates a form‑flow that collects name and phone, sends a verification code successfully, and notes deployment keys, channels (Cortana, Teams, Slack) and user consent for storing data.
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chapters (30)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:36Agenda
- 0:57About Rabeb
- 1:58History
- 3:20We are lazy
- 3:47Why not move to voice
- 4:33Contextual communication
- 6:11Conversational interfaces
- 7:42Speed
- 8:57Simplicity
- 9:39Availability
- 13:33Light
- 14:17Lois
- 15:57Intent
- 19:38Training
- 20:44Publishing
- 22:13Endpoint
- 23:39Bot Framework
- 25:48Cortana
- 28:28Download files
- 29:56Bot Framework Emulator
- 30:34New Project
- 31:20Web Application
- 31:42Register Bots
- 32:44Message Controller
- 33:38Message Receive
- 34:32Dialogues
- 35:37Form Flow
- 37:56Local Endpoint
- 41:02Cortana Framework
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