Programming Voice Interfaces: Giving Connected Devices a Voice

by Walter Quesada, Ivan Aguirre

Get a step-by-step guide for developing voice interfaces for applications and devices connected to the Internet of Things. By allowing consumers to use natural human interactions, you can avoid awkward methods of input and interactivity to provide them with elevated user experiences. This practical book is ideal for software engineers who build applications for the Web, smartphones, as well as embedded systems that dominate the IoT space.


Integrate voice interfaces with internet connected devices and sensors
Learn how to integrate with existing voice interfaces
Understand when to use a voice over other Natural User Interface technologies
Build a prototype with tools such as Raspberry Pi, solderless breadboards, jumper cables, sensors, Arduino, Visual Studio, and other tools
Use cloud services such as Azure and AWS to integrate voice with your existing or new web service end-points

300 pages, Paperback

Published September 5, 2017

Reviews

[Travis · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book managed to pack in a lot of information into just six chapters. It's chalk full of the practical information and examples you'll need to get up and running with creating voice enabled applications/devices. I think it could have benefited from having more chapters explaining some of the capabilities in more depth, but it works quite well as a simple primer on the topic, and it encourages experimentation which is of course the best part of development and learning. The simple exercises in this book allows anyone to be up and running in no time and have actual working applications rather painlessly, and demonstrates just how simple it can be to produce voice enabled options. This is definitely a book I'll be referring to again and again while developing my various hobby projects.

[Ietrio · Rating 1 out of 5]

Two nobodies were picked by an editor to fill in a gap. And they have come up with a title to fit that gap. The book itself is rather pointless. On one hand, by the time you get this book the information might be outdated. On the other hand, there isn't much information in there anyway. A whole page with the HTTP chatter done by Alexa. Full color pictures of the integrated circuits. Yes, they are round, so this is probably the reason they were put there. So a computer has a rectangular circuit board, a speaking speaker [pun intended] has round circuit board, right?