Bring Your Voice to The Universe

GDG NYC

14 Aug 2019

You can make it so!

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Allen Firstenberg

Software developer / Consultant

Google Developer Expert for Assistant, IoT, Wearables, Identity

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Tell me about you

• Frontend or backend?
• Mobile or web?
• Audio? Video?
• Other fields?
• Alexa or Assistant?

• Kirk? Picard? Sisko? Janeway? Archer?

What are we talking about?

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What is the Google Assistant?

A conversation

between you and Google that helps you get things done

in your world.

What are Actions on Google?

Actions are the APIs

that lets you engage in conversations

with other services

through the Google Assistant.

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Types of Actions

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Web / Content

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• Podcasts
• News articles
• Recipes
• How-to
• FAQs
• Media

App

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• Food ordering
• Fitness
  • health
  • exercise
  • nutrition
• Finance
• Ride sharing

Smart Home

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• Smart Home API
• Local Smart Home API
• Assistant SDK

Conversations

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Cloud APIs & Dialogflow

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Audio

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• Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML)
• Long-format audio

Richer Media

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• Rich Response cards
• Interactive Canvas
  • (Just games right now... but...)

Transactions

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• Physical Goods (Your Processor)
• Physical Goods (Google Pay)
• Digital Goods (tied to Google Play)

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https://actions.google.com/design

https://developers.google.com/actions

Twitter: #AoGDevs

Reddit: /r/GoogleAssistantDev

Stack Overflow: actions-on-google