The bots—from Hipmunk, IFTTT, Skyscanner, StubHub, and Spock—represent the second wave of voice-controlled Skype assistants.
A few months ago at Microsoft’s Build developer conference, CEO Satya Nadella described a new bot development framework called Conversations as a Platform. It consisted of a number of developer tools to make bots that understand the human voice and use machine learning to answer questions and deliver useful information.
