Tag: HAQM Lex

In this post, we show how you can embed HAQM Lex into custom hardware using widely available components. We demonstrate how you can build a simple voice-based AI kit and connect it to HAQM Lex. We’ll use a Raspberry Pi and a few off-the-shelf components totaling less than $60. By the end of this blog […]

Building your chatbot in the HAQM Lex console takes just a few steps, and testing your bot is just as easy. We’ve made enhancements to the Test window of the HAQM Lex console which now provides you more details during testing and enables easier bot troubleshooting. Once you’ve built a bot to test, the Test […]

You can now export your HAQM Lex chatbot schema into the Alexa Skills Kit to simplify the process of creating an Alexa skill. HAQM Lex now provides the ability to export your HAQM Lex chatbot definition as a JSON file that can be added to the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK). Once you add the bot schema file […]

HAQM Lex is now integrated with AWS CloudTrail, a service that enables you to log, continuously monitor, and retain events related to API calls across your AWS infrastructure, to provide a history of API calls for your account. HAQM Lex API calls are captured from the HAQM Lex console or from your API operations using […]

To increase the accuracy of speech recognition for conversations over the phone, HAQM Lex now supports telephony audio (8 kHz). You can now employ the same deep learning technology as HAQM Alexa to converse with your applications and fulfill the most common requests. HAQM Lex maintains context and dynamically manages the dialogue, adjusting responses based […]

The Kelley Blue Book Bot allows users to get real-time Kelley Blue Book® Trade-In Value for vehicles using natural language. Users can interact with the chatbot in both voice and text. A simple question like, “Kelley Blue Book, can you tell me the trade-in value for my 2012 Honda Civic?” is all that is needed […]

All was well with the world last night. You went to bed thinking about convincing your manager to add some time in the next sprint for much-needed improvements to the recommendation engine for shoppers on your website. The machine learning models are out of date and people are complaining, but no one is looking past […]

Listen to this post Voiced by HAQM Polly It’s New Year’s Eve. Your friends and loved ones have gone to the party, but you can’t go just yet because you haven’t figured out how to track the key performance indicators for your New Year’s resolution. You’ve already divided your resolution into categories, and you’ve set […]

Ever since we released HAQM Lex, customers have asked us how to embed voice into a web application. In this blog post, we show how to build a simple web application that uses the AWS SDK for JavaScript to do that. The example application, which users can access from a browser, records audio, sends the […]

Is your HAQM Lex chatbot ready to talk to the world? When it is, chances are that you’ll want it to be able to interact with as many users as possible. HAQM Lex offers built-in integration with Facebook, Slack and Twilio. But what if you want to connect to a messaging service that isn’t supported? […]