Natural Language Understanding<\/h2>\n\n\n\n As I told you, a voice assistant should process what we tell her. The best way of processing is artificial intelligence but we also can do a hard coded proof-of-concept as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
What does that mean? hard coding in programming means when we want some certain input to have a fixed output, we don’t rely on our logic for that answer, but we just write code like if the input is this, give the user that, with no regard of the logic. <\/em>In this case, the logic can be A.I, but we tell the machine if user said Hi, you simply say Hi! <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nBut in the real world applications we can’t just go with the A.I. or hard coded functions. A real voice assistant is usually a combination of both. How? When you ask your voice assistant for the price of bitcoin, it’s a hard coded function. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But when you just talk to your voice assistant she’ll may make some answers to you, which may have a human feel<\/em> and that’s when A.I. comes in. <\/p>\n\n\n\nResponding<\/h2>\n\n\n\n Although providing responses can be considered a part of the understanding process, I prefer to talk about the whole thing in a separate section. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A response is usually what the A.I. will tell us, and the question is how that A.I. knows what we mean? <\/em>and this is an excellent question. Designing the intelligent part of the voice assistant or in general chatbots, is the trickiest part. <\/p>\n\n\n\nThe main backbone of responses, is your intention. What is your chatbot for? Is it a college professor assistant or it’s just something that will give you a Stark feeling? Is it designed to flirt with lonely people or it’s designed to help the elderly? There are tons of questions you have to answer before designing your own assistant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
After you asked you those questions, you need to classify what people would say to your bot under different categories. These categories are called intents. <\/em>Let me explain by example. <\/p>\n\n\n\nYou go to a Cafe, the waiter gives you the menu and you see the menu, right? Your intention is now clear. You want some coffee. So, how you ask about coffee? I will say Sir, a cup of espresso please. <\/em>And that’s this simple. In order to answer all coffee related questions, we need to consider different states, as much as possible. What if customer asks for Macchiato? What if they ask for Mocha? What if they ask for a cookie with their coffee? and this is where A.I. can help. <\/p>\n\n\n\nA.I. is nothing other than making predictions using math. A long time ago, I used to write the whole A.I. logic myself. But later a YouTuber called NeuralNine developed a library called neural intents <\/em>and it’s for this purpose! How does this library work? <\/p>\n\n\n\nIt’s simple. We give the library a bunch of questions and our desired answers. The model we train, can classify questions and then simply predict what category our sayings belong to. Let me show you the example. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When you say a cup of espresso please<\/em>, the A.I. sees words cup and espresso. What happens then? she’ll know these words belong to the coffee <\/em>category, so she’ll give you one of those fixed<\/strong> answers from that category. <\/p>\n\n\n\nKeeping answers fixed by the way, is not always a good thing. For some reasons, we may need to make a generative <\/em>chatbot which also can make responses like a human. Those bots are more complex and require more resources, studies and time. <\/p>\n\n\n\nFinal Thoughts<\/h1>\n\n\n\n The world of programming is beautiful and vast. When it comes to A.I. it becomes more fun of course. In this article, I tried to explain how a voice assistant can be constructed but I actually didn’t dig deep to the implementation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why so? I guess implementation is good, but in most cases, like every other aspect of programming, it’s just putting together some tools. So learning the concept, is much more important in most cases, like this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I hope the article was useful for you. If it is, please share it with your friends and leave a comment for me. I’d be super thankful. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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