{"id":41750,"date":"2021-02-02T15:08:52","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T15:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/?guid=3e633451095bbdf44711c7c0dd501edd"},"modified":"2021-02-02T15:08:52","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T15:08:52","slug":"amazon-updates-development-environment-powering-alexa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/amazon-updates-development-environment-powering-alexa\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon updates development environment powering Alexa"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n Danny Bradbury<\/a><\/span>
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Amazon has announced an update to Lex, its conversational\u00a0artificial intelligence (AI)<\/a>\u00a0interface service for applications, in order to make it easier to build\u00a0bots<\/a>\u00a0with support for multiple languages.<\/p>\n

Lex is the\u00a0cloud<\/a>-based service that powers Amazon\u2019s\u00a0Alexa<\/a>\u00a0speech-based virtual assistant. The company also offers it as a service that allows people to build virtual agents, conversational IVR systems, self-service chatbots, or informational bots.<\/p>\n

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\nOrganizations define conversational flows using a management console that then produces a bot they can attach to various applications, like\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0Messenger.<\/p>\n

The company released its Version 2 enhancements and a collection of updates to the\u00a0application programming interface (API)<\/a>\u00a0used to access the service.<\/p>\n

One of the biggest V2\u00a0 enhancements is the additional language support. Developers can now add multiple languages to a single bot, managing them collectively throughout the development and deployment process.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to Martin Beeby, principal advocate for\u00a0Amazon Web Services<\/a>, developers can add new languages during development and switch between them to compare conversations.<\/p>\n

The updated development tooling also simplifies version control to track different bot versions more easily. Previously, developers had to version a bot’s underlying components individually, but the new feature allows them to version at the bot level.<\/p>\n

Lex also comes with new productivity features, including saving partially completed bots and uploading sample utterances in bulk. A new configuration process makes it easier for developers to understand where they are in their bot’s configuration, Beeby added.<\/p>\n

Finally, Lex now features a streaming conversation API that can handle interruptions in the conversation flow. It can accommodate typical conversational speed bumps, such as a user pausing to think or asking to hold for a moment while looking up some information. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Danny Bradbury<\/p>\n

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Amazon has announced an update to Lex, its conversational\u00a0artificial intelligence (AI)\u00a0interface service for applications, in order to make it easier to build\u00a0bots\u00a0with support for multiple lan…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":636,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/636"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41751,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41750\/revisions\/41751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}