5 research students
at University of WA have come up with a social bot named ‘Sounding Board’ that
tries to engage users in a meaningful voice conversation on any topic. They
have used Amazon’s Alexa SDK for speech-to-text, text-to-speech conversions. Once
the bot understands user’s intent, it searches web to pick relevant content and
tries to continue somewhat meaningful conversations. Average meaningful
conversation time for the ‘Sounding Board’ is 10 minutes and 22 seconds before
the user lets it down because of inappropriateness. It’s a AWS cloud based
solution
Sample demo video
People try to push
the bots’ current status of ‘meanial jobs accomplisher’ to an ‘intelligent
companion’
