Voice, Chat and Vision Automation Bundle

Alexa, Siri, Cortana and Google Now — voice-activated personal assistants are one of the hottest trends in technology these days. They are a great way to convey complex information to your customers in a free-flowing, conversational way. Alexa is a great way to build them — an AWS service for building conversational interfaces for Echo, FireTV and a bunch of Alexa-aware devices. In this course, you'll learn how to start building apps for use with Alexa.

• Access 37 lectures & 3.5 hours of content 24/7
• Cover voice & text interfaces and current trends in human-computer interaction
• Discover how Alexa, Lex, Echo, & other bits of the amazon ecosystem come together
• Explore interaction models like utterances, intents, slots, prompts, & their resolution into API calls
• Learn about fulfillment models

SikuliX is a scripting/automation technology that relies on pattern matching, and is available for use via Python or Java. Developed at the User Interface Design Group at MIT, it's a powerful and easy-to-use tech that uses image recognition to automate just about anything that happens on screen. In this course, you'll uncover all the secrets to Sikuli you need to start automating everything.

• Access 32 lectures & 3 hours of content 24/7
• Learn how to automate, script, & image-match w/ SikuliX
• Explore OCR-mode in SikuliX
• Discover unusual, specific use cases for SikuliX

Elasticsearch wears two hats: It is both a powerful search engine built atop Apache Lucene, as well as a serious data warehousing and Business Intelligence technology. This course will help you use the power of ES in both contexts.

• Access 59 lectures & 6 hours of content 24/7
• Learn how search works, & the role that inverted indices and relevance scoring play
• Discover the tf-idf algorithm & the intuition behind term frequency, inverse document frequency and field length
• Perform horizontal scaling using sharding & replication
• Explore powerful querying functionality including a query-DSL
• Use REST APIs - from browser as well as from cURL
• Dive into Kibana for exploring data & finding insights
• Cover aggregations — metrics, bucketing & nested aggs

Chatbots are voice-aware bots, i.e. computer programs designed to simulate human conversations with users. Chatbots have become ubiquitous across sites and apps and a multitude of AI platforms exist which help you get up and running with a chatbot quickly. This course introduces DialogFlow, a conversational interface for bots, devices and applications. It's Google's bot technology and a direct rival of Amazon Lex.

• Access 31 lectures & 3.5 hours of content 24/7
• Discuss voice & text interfaces and current trends in human-computer interaction
• Explore interaction models such as intents, entities, contexts & their resolution into API calls
• Manage the flow of conversations using linear & non-linear dialogs
• Use webhooks to fulfill user intents & learn how to connect to external services to respond to queries
• Deploy a flask app to Heroku
• Understand how a chatbot can be added to your Slack workspace

Chatbots are a hot new technology. They're a great way to convey complex information to your customers in a free-flowing, conversational way. Amazon Lex, an AWS service for building conversational interfaces for any application using voice and text, is one of the leading ways to build them. Here, you'll learn how to do it!

• Access 43 lectures & 4.5 hours of content 24/7
• Discuss voice & text interfaces and current trends in human-computer interaction
• Understand how Alexa, Lex, Echo & the other bits of the Amazon ecosystem come together
• Explore interaction models such as utterances, intents, slots, prompts & their resolution into API calls
• Use AWS Lambdas to fulfill user intents, & learn how AWS lambdas provide smooth, no-ops, auto-scaling code endpoints
• Discover how a chatbot can be added to your Slack workspace