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Voice User Interface Projects

You're reading from Voice User Interface Projects Build voice-enabled applications using Dialogflow for Google Home and Alexa Skills Kit for Amazon Echo

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788473354

Length 404 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Alexa Skills

Concepts

Chatbots

Author (1):

Lee

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Title Page

Dedication

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Contributors

Preface

1. Introduction FREE CHAPTER

2. Building an FAQs Chatbot

3. Building a Fortune Cookie Application

4. Hosting, Securing, and Testing Fortune Cookie in the Cloud

5. Deploying the Fortune Cookie App for Google Home

6. Building a Cooking Application Using Alexa

7. Using Advanced Alexa Features for the Cooking App

8. Migrating the Alexa Cooking Application to Google Home

9. Building a Voice-Enabled Podcast for the Car

10. Hosting and Enhancing the Android Auto Podcast

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Index

Testing Android Auto using the Desktop-Header unit

The desktop-header unit (DHU) is a tool provided by Google to simulate Android Auto on your computer. It allows your phone to connect to your computer via USB and then allows DHU to directly interface with the Android Auto installed on your phone.

Here are the steps to test Android Auto using DHU:

On your Android phone, download and install Android Auto from the Google Play Store:

Android Auto on Google Play Store

Open Android Auto.
Click on the hamburger menu and go to About.
Click on About Android Auto until you get a message saying that the developer mode is enabled.

The following image shows About Android Auto:

About Android Auto

Once developer mode is enabled, Android Auto is activated. Go to the top-right corner, click on the three vertical dots, and choose Start head-unit server.

The following image shows starting the header-unit server on Android Auto:

Started header-unit server

Click on the three vertical dots in the top-right corner and choose...

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Authors (1)

Lee

Lee

Henry Lee has over 18 years of experience in software engineering. His passion for software engineering has led him to work at various start-ups. Currently, he works as the principal architect responsible for the R&D and the digital strategies. In his spare time, He loves to travel and snowboard, and enjoys discussing the latest technology trends over a cigar! Also, he authored three books at Apress on mobile development.

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