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Everything we think you need to know can be found here: 2023: Getting Started: What to Know About Git and DialogFlow

To test your knowledge of these subjects there are two Canvas quizzes on the subjects that must be completed.

Additionally on the page 2023: Getting Started: The Tools Used we explain and help you set up the tools needed to complete this project.

The Project

In this project, you will be developing a conversational cooking assistant that uses speech to interact and is able to conduct a conversation for selecting a recipe and for extended recipe instruction. Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has matured to a level where it is possible to categorize a user's utterances adequately to make sense out of them. Also, Speech Synthesis (TTS) can be used to produce well-pronounced spoken utterances from written text. Yet, conversational agents have not become mainstream, and whoever has used a home assistant (Google Home or Apple Siri) has experienced being misunderstood. These assistants are typically able to perform well on basic Question-Answering (QA) interactions, which most of the time consist of just two conversational turns: a question and an answer. However, conducting longer conversations tends to be more challenging. This is because a longer conversation can take (too) many directions and the chance that a user says something unexpected significantly increases. We will investigate this challenge in this project.

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