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Re:Amazon Lex – Conversational interfaces for your applications by daveguy on Monday December 05, 2016 @05:20PM (#13110301)
I'm not sure what the benefit of this is over the alexa voice service api:

https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-vo...

Does anyone know how this differs from alexa voice services? Does this allow you to get away from the stilted "example phrases" of the alexa api and just get a transcript? Judging from the inclusion of "intents" on the faq, it looks like the "example phrase" interface will still be required:

https://aws.amazon.com/lex/faqs/

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Re:Amazon Lex – Conversational interfaces for your applications by supergeek133 on Monday December 05, 2016 @05:27PM (#13110375)
You need intents so whatever code is running Lex knows to do something. Especially for a conversation string.

If you want text to speech or text to text? You'd make a polly utility, or do something like "open dictate" and then just capture everything said after.

That being said the duration is limited too.

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