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Roles and skills

Nicky Birch of BBC and Rosina Sound and Kane Simms of VUX World talk about the skills needed to create great conversational interfaces.

No matter how sophisticated the bot or the interface, they’ve been developed by a team of people. Perhaps you’re interested in moving into this area yourself, or perhaps you’d like to understand a bit more about the development process.

Now that you’ve begun to familiarise yourself with the different types of conversational interface, we can explore the teams behind the tech, the skills that they have and the way they approach their work.

There are a wide variety of roles working with conversational interfaces – everything from personae development to sound design. Over the next set of steps we’ll explore this in more detail and look at some interesting examples of technology in development.

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Introduction to Conversational Interfaces

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