Amazon Lex
A managed AWS service for building voice and text conversational bots, built on the same technology as Alexa.
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$0.004 per speech request and $0.00075 per text request; free tier of 10,000 text and 5,000 speech requests/month for one year.
What it does
- Voice agent
- Customer support
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