Building Voice Assistant Skills for Alexa, Google Home, Cortana, and More Using .NET

Explore the world of voice assistant skills for Alexa, Google Home, Cortana, and other AI assistants in this comprehensive 54-minute conference talk. Discover how to leverage existing .NET skills to create content for artificial intelligence assistants. Gain insights into the fundamentals of different voice assistants, their overlapping capabilities, and learn techniques for building skills abstractly to ensure wide-ranging compatibility. Walk away with a solid understanding of flagship platforms and the ability to develop your own skills and apps using C# and/or F#. Delve into topics such as conversation turns, multi-turn conversations, and dialogue flow. Follow along with practical demonstrations, including an Alexa demo and an Animal Facts demo for Google Assistant. Learn about building APIs, creating skills, adding fulfillment, handling user requests, and implementing business logic. By the end of this talk, you'll be equipped to bring your ideas to life in the exciting realm of AI-powered voice assistants.

Intro
Virtual Assistants
Conversation Turn
MultiTurn Conversations
Alexa Demo
Building the API
Creating a skill
Adding Alexa fulfillment
Alexa POST
Business logic
Asking the user
Checking for context
Returning a response
Returning a request that we didnt want
Testing
Dialogue Flow
Google Assistant
Animal Facts Demo
Pub Comp