Giorgio Robino

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Could Telegram be a competitor of voice assistants, like Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant?

An open letter to Pavel Durov, containing some change requests to enable voice integration into Telegram bots ecosystem — I started writing this article almost two years ago, and from time to time the topic comes in my mind, so maybe the question in the title is still valid. …

Smart Speaker

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Could Telegram be a competitor of voice assistants, like Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant?

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Voice-cobots in industry. A case study

A voice assistant application in the shipping container industry — Update: I participated at the www.lingofest2021.com event, 2021, March 26th, presenting my talk: Enterprise Voice Cobots, where this case study is deepened. Slides and video links available at the end of the article. Voice assistants, for consumers at home, are nowadays taken for granted, but there is a huge space…

Shipping Industry

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Mar 11, 2021

As a result, Semantic Framing brings the following context units for the Chris conversations:

Context Theory II: Semantic Frames

Duygu ALTINOK

Another factor that defines a context unit of a conversation, often underrated, is the TIMING of…

Another factor that defines a context unit of a conversation, often underrated, is the TIMING of turn-taking. That's especially true for a real-word real-time assistant as (your) Chris navigator. I think TIMING (mainly the human utterances time distribution) is an important attribute to be added to the list. For example if user say Call Alicia The bot could reply: Shall I call Alicia A on her mobile?

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Another factor that defines a context unit of a conversation, often underrated, is the TIMING of turn-taking.

That's especially true for a real-word real-time assistant as (your) Chris navigator.

I think TIMING (mainly the human utterances time distribution) is an important attribute to be added to the list. For example if user say

Call Alicia

The bot could reply:

Shall I call Alicia A on her mobile?

Afterward a possible user silence could be managed with a reprompt or a default choice (the mobile phone) if the user do not answer in X seconds.

Or the conversation (and the domain contect) could terminate after Y seconds of silence in the middle of a turn-taking.

What do you think about it?

Thanks

Mar 11, 2021

Context Theory II: Semantic Frames

Duygu ALTINOK

Thanks Duygu for the so interesting article!

Thanks Duygu for the so interesting article! Where I would read/know more about the concept of "Semanting Frames" you introduced? Any suggestion is welcome! BTW, that approach is very similar to what I call "dialog units" in my NaifJs opensource dialog manager: https://github.com/solyarisoftware/naifjs/blob/master/doc/concepts.md Looking forward the context encoder architecture. A topic I thought a lot in past and I still not implemented in NaifJs.

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Thanks Duygu for the so interesting article!

Where I would read/know more about the concept of "Semanting Frames" you introduced?

Any suggestion is welcome!

BTW, that approach is very similar to what I call "dialog units" in my NaifJs opensource dialog manager:

https://github.com/solyarisoftware/naifjs/blob/master/doc/concepts.md

Looking forward the context encoder architecture. A topic I thought a lot in past and I still not implemented in NaifJs.

Thanks

giorgio

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·Sep 8, 2020

Whither Almond, the Stanford University open virtual assistant, will go?

Interview with Giovanni Campagna, one of the Almond principal developers — I learned of Almond, the Stanford University open virtual assistant, for the first time one year ago reading an article on voicebot.ai. I have been immediately enthusiastic about the core concepts on which the project is based: the user’s data privacy, the need of a web based on linguistic user…

Virtual Assistants

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Whither Almond, the Stanford University open virtual assistant, will go?

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·Dec 15, 2019

Are Alexa and Google Assistant both unfit as language learning assistants, inside/outside the classroom?

Some reasons why I’m developing a Telegram chatbot, giving up to develop an Alexa or Google Assistant application. — This article is a remake of my original answer to Julie Daniel Davis article Google Assistant versus Amazon Alexa: Which Could be Queen of the Classroom? I mitigated the original title “Are Alexa and Google Assistant both looser in edutech space?”, too extreme and generic, I admit. The reviewed article…

Amazon Echo

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Are Alexa and Google Assistant both unfit as language learning assistant, inside/outside the…

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·Jul 8, 2019

Stateful Alexa Skills?

My change requests to enhance Alexa programming model with dialog state management support — In this article I want to deepen a typical problem when developing a not trivial Alexa skill, as a complex task-completion workflow or a well-structured voicefirst game: the need of a state management framework supporting developers to manage multi-turn conversations contexts. The need of a dialog “state management” is a…

Amazon Echo

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·Oct 6, 2018

Conversational apps naming dilemma

A terminology survey for (voicefirst) bot makers — 7.10.2018 — added a note about X.ai Recently I started my new job as researcher at ITD-CNR, the Institute of Educational Technology, part of the Italian National Research Council. The goal of research team to which I belong is to realize chatbots/voice assistant applications in order to support Italian language…

Chatbots

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·May 20, 2018

Assistenza vocale per la terza età

Le applicazioni per smartspeaker possono aiutare le persone anziane a non sentirsi sole? — L’anno scorso, qualche mattacchione mise su youtube un video in cui veniva presentato Amazon Echo Silver, fantomatica versione e parodia del vero prodotto Amazon Echo, specificamente studiato per le persone anziane.

Voce

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·May 13, 2018

Echo Dot ed Home Mini: Audio confronto

Un’introduzione allo sviluppo di applicazioni audio su Amazon Alexa e Google Assistant — 01–11–2018 — Warning: questo articolo compara alcune caratteristiche audio di Google Home mini e Amazon Echo Dot di seconda generazione (vedi fotografia). Dal 30 ottobre 2018 è in vendita in Italia l’Echo Dot di terza generazione, che ha caratteristiche audio completamente rinnovate rispetto al modello di precedente generazione.

Voce

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