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Joe Birch

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Chord Assist: Building an accessible smart guitar for the mute, deaf and blind

posted in Uncategorized on February 11, 2019 by hitherejoe

In 2017 I created an Android Things project called BrailleBox — a Braille News Reader for the partially sighted. I’m really passionate about helping others and using the knowledge I have to do so, even if it means learning new things to help achieve that goal. This was the main driver for creating Braille Box, but I… Continue reading →

Exploring Actions on Google Responses: Basic Card

posted in Uncategorized on October 25, 2018 by hitherejoe

When sending responses from our Actions on Google conversational tools, there are a number of different ways in which we can present content to our users. In this post we’re going to look at adding responses to our conversations using the Basic Card. When building responses for our conversation tools we have the ability to… Continue reading →

Exploring Actions on Google Responses: Simple Response

posted in Uncategorized on October 12, 2018 by hitherejoe

When sending responses from our Actions on Google conversational tools, there are a number of different ways in which we can present content to our users. In this post we’re going to look at adding responses to our conversations using the Simple Response. When building responses for our conversation tools we have the ability to… Continue reading →

Localising Actions on Google conversations

posted in Uncategorized on March 7, 2018 by hitherejoe

Actions on Google is a pretty fascinating platform when it comes to the creation of conversational tools. So far myself I’ve been able to create a couple of small tools that could have the potential to help users out in one way or another. But there’s one thing that’s always been present on my mind — they’ve… Continue reading →

Authenticating users with Actions on Google

posted in Uncategorized on January 17, 2018 by hitherejoe

Actions on Google is a pretty fascinating platform when it comes to the creation of conversational tools. So far myself I’ve been able to create a couple of small tools that could have the potential to help users out in one way or another. But they always been missing that one important thing, personalisation. Having… Continue reading →

Exploring Dialogflow: Understanding Agent Interaction

posted in Uncategorized on October 11, 2017 by hitherejoe

Dialogflow is a powerful tool that allows us to create conversational tools without the complications of needing to handle natural language processing. But before we dive into the platform, it’s important to understand all of the different concepts that tie together to create the conversational agents that we can create. When I started exploring the… Continue reading →

Building a Guitar Chord Tutor for Actions on Google: Part Two

posted in Uncategorized on September 22, 2017 by hitherejoe

In the last part of this series, we looked at how we can build a tool for Actions on Google – if you haven’t checked that out yet then it might be worth reading it before continuing this article: In part two, we’re going to be taking a quick look at how we can leverage… Continue reading →

Building a Guitar Chord Tutor for Actions on Google: Part One

posted in Uncategorized on September 13, 2017 by hitherejoe

Google Actions is a fascinating platform. Not only does it provide us with a conversational tool that gives us the ability to create experiences which make certain tasks easier and more convenient for the user, but it allows us to create applications that can be easily accessible for a wide range of users with different… Continue reading →

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