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How to Build Your Own Chatbot With Dialogflow

High-quality conversational interfaces (chatbots and voice assistants) have traditionally been difficult and expensive to build. An effective chatbot requires Natural Language Processing/Understanding (NLP, NLU) and other Deep Learning techniques to understand the underlying intent of human language.

These techniques require skills that are difficult for individuals to acquire and expensive for organizations to hire. Even if you have the skillset at hand, the amount of conversation data required to build natural interactions is labor intensive and expensive to collect. Given these facts, building a chat interface for your application or product likely does not offer enough value for the cost. Until now.

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Build an Android Chatbot With Dialogflow

Previously, we presented you with a simple and effective guide to integrating a Dialogflow bot in a website. In this article, we will be sharing steps to do the same in an Android app. All you need to build a sample chatbot for an android app is Dialogflow and Kommunicate.

Below is an example of Kommunicate Support Bot developed in android using Dialogflow. If you wish to see the bot live in action, head here and click on the chat icon from the bottom right corner.

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A Complete Guide to Managing Time and Date Periods With a Chatbot

Business Challenge

Dates are the key parameter that is mandatory in numerous business scenarios like Leave or Travel Request Creation, generating conversational reports for backend data for the date or period. However, it sometimes appears to be a challenge to record various date formats and combinations (one date, several dates, period).

Prerequisites

This tutorial is meant to be for advanced users, so if you haven’t built your first bot, follow this tutorial.
If you want to learn how to master memory management using the bot builder on SAP Conversational AI platform, please read this article first!

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Connect Your Own AI Chatbot to Amazon Alexa

More and more chatbots are being created every day, basically covering every automatable use case. Most of these chatbots are textual, and we can interact with them on Messenger, SMS, website chat, etc. They’re very accessible and easy to use, but I’m sure you’d love to be able to speak to them, as well as write to them.

Sometimes, speaking is the most natural and easiest way to interact, say, when you’re at home cooking or reading. I’ve got some news for you: you can build your own Alexa bot backed by SAP Conversational AI. We made this integration very easy, so let’s dive in, step-by-step.Image title