But a number of people asked if they could get a version of this for Slack, leading to the creation of the new Slackbot. Today, that software is being used by around 150 customers – mainly agencies working with bigger brands on voice app development.Īccording to John Kelvie, founder and CEO at Bespoken, the team originally built a web client version of Silent Echo in order to support some functionality in the company’s enterprise voice application solution. These tools help Bespoken to gain exposure for its SaaS product, a logging and monitoring software solution for Alexa and Google Home voice apps. Bespoken spun out of interactive audio ad company XappMedia last year, and has since released a number of open source command line tools which have been adopted by nearly 700 voice app developers. In fact, the idea for Silent Echo comes from Bespoken, a company offering tools for developing voice apps. For example, Silent Echo doesn’t let you control Spotify or other music services, nor can it handle using Alexa skills that require multiple turns due to its short session times.īut there are things Silent Echo can handle, like the ability to control smart home devices or the ability interact with Alexa skills – including for testing purposes, as developers may need to do. The service doesn’t offer the full capabilities that Alexa offers on other platforms, like Amazon’s Echo speaker. For example, if things are too noisy in the room for Alexa to properly hear you, or, alternately, if you need things to be very quiet. The idea is that there are times when you want to interact with Amazon’s virtual assistant, Alexa, but you don’t want to do it by voice.
Use this token as your slack_token configuration parameter.Īs the Realtime API needs a websocket, you need to create a PHP script that will hold your bot logic, as you can not use the HTTP controller way for it.Want to chat with Alexa via Slack? A new bot called Silent Echo now makes that possible. Simply install it using composer require mpociot/slack-client.Īdd a new Bot user to your Slack team and take note of the bot token slack gives you. Please note: The Realtime API requires the additional composer package mpociot/slack-client to be installed. Slack is a cloud-based set of team collaboration tools and services. Or if you use BotMan Studio: php artisan botman:install-driver slack Then load the driver before creating the BotMan instance ( only when you don't use BotMan Studio): DriverManager::loadDriver(\BotMan\Drivers\Slack\SlackDriver::class) First you need to pull in the Slack Driver.
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