Delivered at ANZ Un/Conf 2018 Melbourne. https://anzunconfmel2018.sched.com

1. LET’S BUILD VOICE ASSISTANT
LEARNING GAMES FOR KIDS
CLIFFANO SUBAGIO

2. ABOUT ME
• DSE TRIBE MEMBER
• DOTCOM PLATFORM ENGINEER
• PARENT OF 2.5YO TODDLER

3. MY SON

4. THOMAS, PERCY, JAMES, GORDON, …

5. One Way Learning
??

6. Multi Way Learning

7. PROBLEM:
GOOGLE ASSISTANT
DOESN’T KNOW MUCH
ABOUT THOMAS
??

8. SOLUTION:
TRAIN THOMAS FACTS
VIA GOOGLE
DIALOGFLOW+ACTIONS
CONVO

9. CONVO
• NODE.JS LIB FOR TEXT AND CONVERSATION
• YAML SPECIFICATION
• GENERATES DIALOGFLOW AGENT
• GENERATES CLOUDFUNCTIONS MIDDLEWARE
• UTILISES DIALOGFLOW FOR MULTI
LANGUAGE, DEVICES, AND APPS SUPPORT

10. CONVO
GREETINGS
AND
UNKNOWNS

11. CONVO
QUERIES

12. DEMO TIME!

13. HOW IT WORKS
“What number is {{name}}?”
“{{name}}’ number is {{number}}”
{
“inputs": [
{
"intent": "actions.intent.TEXT",
"rawInputs": [
{
"inputType": "VOICE",
"query": “What number is {{name}}?”
}
]}]}
"expectedInputs": [
{
"inputPrompt": {
"richInitialPrompt": {
"items": [ { "simpleResponse": {
"textToSpeech": “{{name}}’ number is {{number}}”
}
}]}}}]}

14. MULTI LANGUAGE SUPPORT

15. MORE USE CASES
• TRIVIA QUIZ LEARNING
• SCORE KEEPING
• 3RD PARTY SERVICE INTEGRATION

16. GREAT, BUT ONE SMALL PROBLEM…

17. THANK YOU.
QUESTIONS?

18. Links
https://github.com/cliffano/convo-thomas
https://github.com/cliffano/convo
https://github.com/cliffano/convo-generator
https://dbpedia.org
https://dialogflow.com
https://www.thomasandfriends.com/en-au/

19. Credits
https://www.pexels.com/photo/closeup-photo-of-
assorted-color-alphabets-1337387/
https://www.ilpost.it/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/7-
signore-anelli.jpeg
https://imagesyoulike.com/images/00000/32x24/00135.jpg
https://cdn1.iconfinder.com/data/icons/general-9/500/
iPad-512.png