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Building a voice AI-Native Interface for an Ember app

With Zenera SDK for Web, you can create a voice AI-Native Interface and embed it to your Ember app. The Zenera Platform provides you with all the tools and leverages the industry's best Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) and Speech Synthesis technologies to quickly build a voice AI-Native Interface from scratch.

In this tutorial, we will create a simple voice enabled Ember app. The app users will be able to click the voice AI-Native Interface button and give custom voice commands, and the AI-Native Interface will reply to them.

What you will learn

  • How to add a voice interface to an Ember app
  • How to write simple voice commands for an Ember app

What you will need

To go through this tutorial, make sure Node.js and the Ember CLI are installed on your machine. For details, see Ember documentation.

Step 1. Sign up for Zenera Studio

First, we need to sign up for Zenera Studio — the web IDE where we will create the dialog script for our voice agent.

  1. Go to Zenera Studio.
  2. Sign up with a Google or GitHub account or with your email address.
  3. In Zenera Studio, click Create Project. Select to create an empty project and give it any name you want.

Step 2: Create an Ember app

Now let's create a simple Ember app:

  1. On your machine, navigate to the folder in which the app will reside and run the following command:
    ember new my-app
  2. Switch to the folder with the app:
    cd my-app
  3. Start the app:
    ember serve

Step 3: Install the Zenera Web component

We need to add the Zenera Web component to the app.

  1. In the app folder, install the Zenera Web component with the following command:
    npm i @zenera/zenera-sdk-web
  2. Install the ember-auto-import package to have the ability to use packages from npm:
    npm install ember-auto-import --save

Step 4: Add the Zenera AI-Native Interface to the app

Now we will update our app to add the Zenera AI-Native Interface to it.

  1. In the app folder, open the app.js file.
  2. At the top of the file, add the import statement for the Zenera Web component:
    import zeneraBtn from "@zenera/zenera-sdk-web";
  3. Below, add the code for the Zenera AI-Native Interface:
    loadInitializers(App, config.modulePrefix);
    
    // Adding the Zenera AI-Native Interface
    zeneraBtn({ 
        key: 'YOUR_KEY_FROM_ZENERA_STUDIO_HERE',
        host: 'v1.alan.app',
    });
  4. In the key field above, we need to replace YOUR_KEY_FROM_ZENERA_STUDIO_HERE with the Zenera SDK key for our Zenera Studio project. In Zenera Studio, at the top of the code editor, click Integrations, copy the value provided in the Zenera SDK Key field and paste this value to key.
    zeneraBtn({ 
        key: '28b4365114e0f2f67d43485dbc3cb44a2e956eca572e1d8b807a3e2338fdd0dc/stage',
        host: 'v1.alan.app',
    });