Introducing Dialogflow, the New Name for API.AI by Google

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Post by pentium10 » Tue, Oct 10, 2017, 4:08 PM UTC

Introducing Dialogflow, the New Name for API.AI by Google
blog.dialogflow.com

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Post by rexreed » Tue, Oct 10, 2017, 5:18 PM UTC

Awesome. I've always wondered - why no Alexa integration?

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Post by RubenSandwich » Tue, Oct 10, 2017, 5:37 PM UTC

rexreed wrote: post #2

Awesome. I've always wondered - why no Alexa integration?

My arm chair guess? Dialogflow is owned by Google who is competing with Amazon Alexa with their Google Assistant/Home.

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Post by rexreed » Tue, Oct 10, 2017, 5:46 PM UTC

rexreed wrote: post #2

Awesome. I've always wondered - why no Alexa integration?

Turns out they have an Alexa exporter. I think it's technical issues more than competitive issues. There are other companies in that integration list that Google competes with.

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Post by matthewayne » Tue, Oct 10, 2017, 5:49 PM UTC

rexreed wrote: post #2

Awesome. I've always wondered - why no Alexa integration?

* Disclaimer * I work on Dialogflow

We have an exporter[0] and importer[1] that lets you export and import your Dialogflow agent to and from Alexa. We also have a sample walking through importing a Alexa skill into Dialogflow [2]

[0] https://dialogflow.com/docs/integrations/alexa-exporter

[1] https://dialogflow.com/docs/integrations/alexa-importer

[2] https://github.com/dialogflow/fulfillment-webhook-importer-n...

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Post by jhurliman » Tue, Oct 10, 2017, 6:55 PM UTC

rexreed wrote: post #2

Awesome. I've always wondered - why no Alexa integration?

The Alexa Skills Kit API relies heavily on an “intents + slots” system where you request specific nouns/verbs from the user such as a first nam or a date and the webhook only sees that specific information. This makes it difficult to wire up third party NLP systems, although there are hacks out there[0].

[0] https://blog.init.ai/alexa-can-you-add-custom-nlp-to-amazon-...

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Post by Ryel » Tue, Oct 10, 2017, 8:13 PM UTC

I've had an absolute blast working on bots this year thanks to all of you on the Dialogflow(API.AI) team. Thank you for all the hard work and building such an easy to use product.