Towards the end of last year, I implemented a feature in a few of my skills that was meant to chip away at one small corner of one of the biggest problems in the VUI space: conveying application context. It was an idea I had been toying with for quite a while, but a few factors made the time right to implement it, and I'm glad to say it's been hugely successful! Read on to hear about what I built, and why...
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Here at 3PO Labs, a common topic of conversation is that of "semantic vs syntactic" language for voice assistants, specifically Alexa. The real crux of the discussion is "How do you get a voice assistant to do what you mean, rather than what you say?" This question was was one of the driving forces behind our creation of DiceBot, as we explain in more detail after the break...
I started asking Alexa to roll various types of dice. Things were going well, until I tried to trick her into doing the impossible...  Alexa, I somehow get the feeling you're just humoring me and not actually rolling these dice... To her credit, she wanted no part of rolling a zero sided die. That would just be crazy talk...
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