The Talking App: Applying AI to create natural conversational interactions with Alexa

The interactions between Alexa and her human users are significantly more natural than typing, clicking, and swiping. But without significant effort, they still feel somewhat stilted compared to human-to-human communication.

However, by applying a little bit of AI, trained with some predefined example dialogs, conversations with Alexa can seem just like you're talking to a friend or family member.

In this session, we'll explore Alexa Conversations, a new technology for creating conversational dialogs that aren't stiff and scripted. We'll build a simple Alexa Conversations-enabled skill to get started and then explore a complete (and award-winning) Alexa skill that is built on Alexa Conversations.

About Craig Walls

Craig Walls is a Principal Engineer, Java Champion, Alexa Champion, and the author of Spring AI in Action, Spring in Action, and Build Talking Apps. He's a zealous promoter of the Spring Framework, speaking frequently at local user groups and conferences and writing about Spring. When he's not slinging code, Craig is planning his next trip to Disney World or Disneyland and spending as much time as he can with his wife, two daughters, 1 bird and 2 dogs.

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