Creating interactive audio for virtual assistants

Posted on: Wednesday 11th of March 2020

Some useful links

What is SSML

https://developers.google.com/assistant/actions/reference/ssml

Audio Playback Reference

https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/quick-reference/play-audio-quick-reference.html

Normalizing Audio Content

https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/flashbriefing/normalizing-the-loudness-of-audio-content.html

https://developers.google.com/assistant/sdk/guides/service/python/best-practices/audio

https://developers.google.com/assistant/tools/audio-loudness

Choose Your Own Adventure

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Choose_Your_Own_Adventure_books

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