Episode 111 - Beyond the Assistants: Sending Output

<p>Not every assistant needs to be part of Amazon Alexa or the Google Assistant. What if you're developing your own voice assistant? How do you take care of some tasks like getting output to your users? In this episode, Allen and Mark give an overview of some of the technologies available to you to send audio exactly the way you want it to sound and some of the tools that are available to use.</p> <p>Resources mentioned:</p> <ul> <li>Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) specification - https://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis11/</li> <li>Amazon Lex - https://aws.amazon.com/polly/</li> <li>Google Cloud Text to Speech - https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech</li> <li>SSML Guru - ssml.guru</li> <li>Speech Markdown - SpeechMarkdown.org</li> <li>Jovo Marketplace TTS - https://www.jovo.tech/marketplace#tts</li> </ul>