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Hands-On Chatbots and Conversational UI Development

You're reading from   Hands-On Chatbots and Conversational UI Development Build chatbots and voice user interfaces with Chatfuel, Dialogflow, Microsoft Bot Framework, Twilio, and Alexa Skills

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788294669
Length 392 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Srini Janarthanam Srini Janarthanam
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Preface 1. Introduction FREE CHAPTER 2. Tour Guide for Your City 3. Let's Talk Weather 4. Building a Persona Bot 5. Let's Catch a Train 6. Restaurant Search 7. The News Bot 8. My TV Guide 9. My Man Friday 10. More Resources

Introducing Dialogflow

Dialogflow (previously called API.AI) is conversational agent building platform from Google. It is a web-based platform that can be accessed from any web browser. The tool has evolved over time from what was built as an answer to Apple Siri for the Android platform. It was called SpeakToIt, an Android app that created Siri-like conversational experiences on any Android smartphone. The AI and natural language technology that powered the SpeakToIt app was opened up to developers as API.AI in 2015. 

API.AI enabled developers to create conversational experiences by providing them tools to undertake two kinds of tasks: understand and generate natural language utterances and manage the conversation. While there are many competing tools to API.AI that are available in the market, we chose API.AI because it was one of the first, is very mature and constantly...

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