Thank you for purchasing the MEAP for Voice-First Development! With this book, we want to help you build great voice applications. We’ve been designing and developing voice applications (many great, some not so great) for a long time, and we're excited to see today’s explosion of voice via Alexa, Google Assistant and others. Today's easily available platforms and ever-evolving tools allows just about anyone to build a voice application. That's outstanding.

With the current increasing interest in voice, we find ourselves getting lots of questions: what makes a good voice application, what's hard and what's easy, what do users want, how is it different from other interactions, why is some voice assistant responding in a weird way, what advice do we have for succeeding with voice, and so on. When trying to point people to resources, we found that current contributions focus primarily on tools and development within specific platforms, with some attention to design. So, we decided to create our own.

welcome