You talkin' to me?
summary
Starts from 1961 IBM voice demos and traces to the 2014 Amazon Echo to show concrete tooling: VXML for telephony, the Alexa SDK plus JSON requests/slots that dramatically reduce sample phrases, and SSML elements (voice, prosody, emotion, whisper) that change pronunciation and tone. Demonstrates browser alternatives: Web Speech API speechRecognition and speechSynthesis with getVoices, and proposes CSS Speech to map visual styles to audible prosody for richer, more accessible listening experiences.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Voice interfaces intro
- 3:10Conversational tech history
- 8:39How conversational interfaces work
- 13:58Alexa skills limits
- 17:27Building Alexa skill
- 21:41Speech services for Alexa
- 25:31SSML for speech control
- 34:03Amazon SSML features
- 38:27Browser voice interfaces
- 43:08Web Speech API
- 43:31CSS speech module future
- 49:55Speech interface engagement
- 50:19Closing & Q&A
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