Category: web speech api

Customizing Your Api.ai Assistant with Intent and Context

Api.ai is a really simple service that allows developers to create their own basic personal AI assistant that works a bit like Siri and Amazon’s Alexa. Last week, I covered how to build your own AI assistant using Api.ai where I showed the basics of setting up an AI assistant and accessing the pre-existing knowle...

How to Build Your Own AI Assistant Using Api.ai

The world of artificially intelligent assistants is growing — Siri, Cortana, Alexa, Ok Google, Facebook M — all the big players in technology have their own. However, many developers do not realise that it is quite easy to build your own AI assistant too! You can customise it to your own needs, your own IoT connec...

Make a Voice-Controlled Audio Player with the Web Speech API

The Web Speech API is a JavaScript API that enables web developers to incorporate speech recognition and synthesis into their web pages. There are many reasons to do this. For example, to enhance the experience of people with disabilities (particularly users with sight problems, or users with limited ability to move th...