Improving Dialogflow Phone Calls by Adding Noise
How to add filler noise (aka comfort noise) and ambient noises to Dialogflow voicebots for the phone to improve the user experience. ... read more
Build a Conversational IVR with Amazon’s Lex and Connect in 45 minutes
Review and guide on building an interactive, speech-based conversational / voicebot IVR using Amazon Lex and Amazon Connect ... read more
SignalWire's Dialogflow Connector
Review and walkthrough of SignalWire's Dialogflow connector that lets you pick phone numbers and dial into the voicebot. SignalWire is a new CPaaS offer from the Freeswitch team ... read more
Computer Vision Training, the AIY Vision Kit, and Cats
Review of how to do computer vision training followed with specifics on how to implement this for the AIY Vision Kit ... read more
Making a Star Wars Day Skill for Mycroft - the open source voice assistant
I evaluated Mycroft - an open source voice assistant that runs on a Raspberry Pi 3 or with Google's Voice Kit. To test it, I made a custom skill for Star Wars Day. Mycroft has many of the pieces needed to build your own voice assistant but has a ways to go in some areas. ... read more