From the course: Building Intelligent Chatbots on AWS (2019)

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Define slot types

Define slot types - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

From the course: Building Intelligent Chatbots on AWS (2019)

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Define slot types

- [Instructor] So we've talked about a lot of the built-in slot types that Amazon provides, which are great for common things or for formatting things that can be phrased different ways like times and dates. But what about slots that need a slot type that is a little bit different, or maybe it's specific to your bot? Let's think about the slots that we'll probably need for our app. When ordering food, we'll need to know what food the user wants to order. We'll also ask them where they're ordering it from, and where they want to meet the delivery person. So food and location, there's probably slot types for those. Let's look. So if we go into the place where we define slots, there's a dropdown. And we can search for food. And sure enough, there's a built-in slot type for food and food establishment. But we want a custom delivery location for meeting the delivery person. We want to be able to meet them at the front door, or the garage, or the mailbox, in those types of locations. So…

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