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

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

77 points by pentium10 8 years ago | 6 comments

Ryel 8 years ago |

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.

rexreed 8 years ago |

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

matthewayne 8 years ago | |

* 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...

jhurliman 8 years ago | |

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-...

rexreed 8 years ago | |

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.

RubenSandwich 8 years ago | |

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