This document discusses building a conversational speech interface using IBM Watson. It describes how computer speech and vision will allow more advanced artificial intelligence by empowering applications through natural language. It provides steps to create a conversational interface using IBM Watson's speech to text, natural language processing, and text to speech components. Examples are given of how conversational interfaces could be used for internet of things control, customer service chatbots, mobile apps, messaging bots, computer control, and robots.

1. Empower your applications and devices
with natural language.
BUILDING A
CONVERSATIONAL SPEECH
INTERFACE

2. TODAY’S EXAMPLE
Conversational interface using IBM Watson
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3. TIPPING POINT
A quick note…
Computer speech is 1 of the 2 critical technologies
that will allow artificial intelligence empower our
world in ways we’ve only dreamed of.
(Computer vision is the 2nd)

4. BACKGROUND

5. THE PROBLEM
Point and click gets old..and it doesn’t scale.

6. THE SOLUTION
Voice control.

7. NOTE
This is deceptively simple, but incredibly powerful.
A signature of the most impactful technologies.

8. COMPONENTS

9. IBM WATSON

10. WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE

11. HOW IT WORKS
Conservation
Service
Application
Natural language
recognition & responseIBM Watson Cloud
Text input
Speech to Text
Service
Spoken input Text output
Text to Speech
Service Spoken output

12. PRICING
Conversation Speech to Text Text to Speech
Free tier
● 1000 API queries per
month (3 workspaces, 25
intents)
Free Tier
● 100 mins per
month (includes
telephony)
Free Tier
● 1M characters per
month
Production
● $0.0025 per API call (20
workspaces, 2000 intents)
Production
● $0.02 per min
Production
● $0.02 per 1000
characters

13. THE GUIDE

14. STEP BY STEP GUIDE
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15. CREATE THE APPLICATION

16. CREATE THE CLASSIFIER

17. ENABLE SPEECH TO TEXT

18. ENABLE TEXT TO SPEECH

19. FIRE IT UP

20. ENHANCEMENTS
● Google searches: ibm.com/watson/developercloud/doc/retrieve-rank
● Etc.
The only limit is your imagination.

21. WHERE CAN IT BE USED?

22. INTERNET OF THINGS
Interact and control your smart home, smart car,
smart office, etc. devices through natural language.

23. CUSTOMER SERVICE
Chatbot on website (or phone, etc.) automatically
answering FAQs for visitors.

24. MOBILE APPS
Empower your users to control the app functions via
natural language.

25. MESSAGING
Create a chatbot to interact with users on Twitter,
Slack, Facebook Messenger, etc.

26. COMPUTER CONTROL
Work on your computer using natural language.

27. ROBOTS
Empower robots with natural language
understanding and interaction.

28. CLOSING

29. WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS?
How much simpler would your world be if you could
simply tell all the things in your life what you want
them to do.

30. UNLEASH YOUR BUSINESS
EMBRACE EXPONENTIAL
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