Building Awesome Actions for the Google Assistant
DevFest DC
9 Oct 2017
Allen Firstenberg
Software developer / Consultant
Google Developer Expert for Assistant, IoT, Wearables, Identity
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What are we talking about?
Photo Credit: Paramount
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 on Google is the API
that lets you engage in conversations
with other services
through the Google Assistant.
Let's Build an Action
What Personality Should it Have?
What's in a Name?
Scripting and Input Processing
Fulfillment
Intents, Parameters,
Context, and Memory
Processing
Response
Other Surfaces
Other Important Bits
Who Cares?
Summary
- Voice is a new and powerful tool
- Think outside the dialog box
- Develop a personality
- Script the conversation
- Context is Queen
- Separate your request and response from your business logic
- Start with voice - and then go further
- Keep an ear on what people are doing
Keep talking to others - we're all still learning!
Questions
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