Engaging with the Google Assistant
Building Awesome Actions
DevFest GDG Bronx
21 Oct 2017
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Allen Firstenberg
Software developer / Consultant
Google Developer Expert for Assistant, IoT, Wearables, Identity
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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 on Google is the API
that lets you engage in conversations
with other services
through the Google Assistant.
Dialogflow
How do we build an Action?
- Design
- Develop
- Deploy
What Personality Should it Have?
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Scripting and Input Processing
Fulfillment
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Intents, Parameters,
Context, and Memory
Processing
Response
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Other Surfaces
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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 talking to others - we're all still learning!
Questions
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https://developers.google.com/actions
Stack Overflow: actions-on-google
https://g.co/actionsdev
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