February 2017

Just-Eat Agrees…Voice is it.

Voice is the future User Interface

According to Just-Eat’s Fernando Fanton, who was speaking to an audience at 4YFN, the start-up spin-off of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona… “one of the things we’re really excited about that we think will make a difference is voice interface. The problem of having to understand a particular way of communicating will fade away, and the experience will be as natural as going into a restaurant and asking a person, what should I eat today? We are not far away from that reality.” Read the article.

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Orderscape Heralds Upcoming Release of Foodiebot™, The Restaurant Industry’s First Full Menu Ordering Skill for Amazon Alexa

Foodiebot will support more than 6,000 restaurants through partnership with MonkeyMedia Software

Silicon Valley-based restaurant technology startup, Orderscape.com, has developed a best-in-class, full food ordering chatbot to launch early in Q2 to over 6,000 restaurants in the U.S. The company will initially offer restaurant clients and consumers access to Foodiebot Voice™ for Amazon Alexa followed by Foodiebot Chat™ for Facebook Messenger and other chatbot platforms. The Foodiebot portal is an entirely new sales channel that will scale to handle millions of restaurants worldwide.

The launch will support more than 6,000 restaurants nationwide through a partnership with Vancouver-based MonkeyMedia Software, creator of MONKEY, the No. 1 cloud-based software for takeout, delivery and catering.

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Michael L. AtkinsonOrderscape Heralds Upcoming Release of Foodiebot™, The Restaurant Industry’s First Full Menu Ordering Skill for Amazon Alexa
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How to Bypass Alexa’s NLP and Jump to Warp 10

If you’re developing skills for Alexa, you’ll find that for all her latest success, her first generation NLP engine is honestly dreadful (and that’s being kind), as compared with competing NLP services, such as API.ai, LUIS, Wit.ai and others.

After a month of developing a complex skill for my startup, I discovered pretty quickly that I was pushing the boundary of Alexa’s NLP, and I wasn’t even done yet. I personally love API.ai and have been using it for our Messenger chatbot for months. Could I use it for Alexa as well? I sure would love to.

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