This document discusses building natural language interfaces using IBM Watson. It provides an overview of how conversational interfaces work, including using speech recognition to convert speech to text, IBM Watson to understand natural language, and text to speech to generate spoken responses. It also outlines some common applications of conversational interfaces like for customer service, internet of things device control, mobile apps, and more. The document encourages readers to think about how conversational interfaces could simplify interactions with technology in various areas of life.

1. Empowering your applications and
devices with conversation.
BUILDING A NATURAL
LANGUAGE 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 &
response
IBM Watson Cloud
Written speech input
Speech to
Text Service
Spoken speech input Written 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
● $0.0089 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. APPLICATIONS

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 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
Empower robots with natural language
understanding and interaction.

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. ● Personality Analysis w/ IBM Watson
● Image Recognition w/ IBM Watson
● Social Customer Care w/ IBM Watson
● Social Customer Care w/ Amazon Machine Learning
● Smart Home Starter Kit w/ AWS IoT & Intel Edison
REVIEW PREVIOUS DEMOS?

31. UNLEASH YOUR BUSINESS
EMBRACE EXPONENTIAL
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