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sounding board sounding board content driven conversational ai winner of the inaugural amazon alexa prize quick links alexa prize website contact us for research or press inquiries only contact the team at this email address sounding board is the winning socialbot in the alexa prize an amazon competition to further conversational artificial intelligence our socialbot s approach focuses on finding interesting content to talk about with the users while trying to understand who the user is starting out with 15 teams competing for the semi finals we were selected as one of three finalists based on customer experience during the finals expert conversationalists interacted with sounding board while judges observed our bot won the competition scoring a 3 17 on a 5 point scale and had an average conversation length of 10 22 how does it work sounding board is built on top of the alexa skills kit powered by echo devices and most of the computation is done in the cloud at each talk turn the echo device sends the recognized text to our cloud system there our algorithm decides how to take the conversation further through a two tiered dialogue manager based on what the user said we may query our databases for recent news or interesting facts about a certain topic once ready our system generates a response combining natural dialogue markers with queried news or facts the response is then sent back to the echo device where it is turned into audio signal here is a video demo of sounding board who created sounding board graduate students at the university of washington hao fang team lead hao cheng elizabeth clark ari holtzman maarten sap faculty advisors mari ostendorf faculty lead yejin choi noah smith the sounding board team accepting their first place trophy in las vegas at aws re invent left to right hao f hao c ari mari maarten elizabeth yejin missing noah meet the sounding board team left to right noah maarten ari mari elizabeth hao f yejin hao c the sounding board students at the alexa prize summit in april left to right elizabeth maarten hao c hao f ari publications and talks mari ostendorf building a socialbot lessions learned from 10m conversations keynote at naacl 2018 new orleans louisiana june 2 2018 slides hao fang hao cheng maarten sap elizabeth clark ari holtzman yejin choi noah a smith and mari ostendorf sounding board a user centric and content driven social chatbot in proc conf north american chapter assoc for computational linguistics naacl system demonstrations new orleans louisiana june 1 6 2018 paper sounding board in the press the verge james vincent inside amazon s 3 5 million competition to make alexa chat like a human june 13 2018 geekwire taylor soper secrets of the 500k amazon alexa prize winner inside the univ of washington s socialbot april 26 2018 wired james vlahos inside the alexa prize february 27 2018 q13 fox brian flores uw students create conversational amazon alexa device january 8 2018 daily uw michael blume uw student team wins first place in amazon alexa competition january 4 2018 seattle times katherine long uw students teach alexa to have a little chat with us november 28 2017 komo news abc uw team wins 500 000 prize from amazon for conversational bot november 28 2017 amazon alexa blog ashwin ram university of washington students win inaugural alexa prize november 28 2017 komo news abc matt markovich uw team finalist for 1 million prize to hold 20 minute conversation with amazon s alexa november 20 2017 geekwire taylor soper amazon reveals 3 university finalists for 2 5m alexa prize including one from univ of washington august 29 2017