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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 Chatbots with Dialogflow – Step By Step Guidelines

Dialogflow from Google (earlier known as API.ai) is a great platform for developing chatbots for multiple platforms. Earlier when Dialogflow was known as API.ai, they had an Android and iOS client library to integrate chatbot into mobile apps. But after merging into Google, the existing library is not getting updated; rather we are seeing Dialogflow added to Google’s Cloud platform and a new Java-based client API is being developed.

In this article, I will show you how you can integrate a chatbot developed in Dialogflow using the new Java client API. 

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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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Dialogflow vs. Lex vs. Watson vs. Wit vs. Azure Bot

Chatbots are a revolution in customer communication. Nowadays, companies are relying heavily on chatbots to automate and reduce the workload of humans.

At Kommunicate, we evaluated many chatbot building platforms for various use cases such as customer support and service. Below is the list of chatbot platforms that got our attention.

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Dialogflow Tutorials to Learn Chatbot Development

Chatbots are becoming widely popular nowadays as more and more businesses are adapting it to cater to their various needs. Many of the companies are considering chatbots to improve their customer support. Also, there are chatbots being developed for various bookings like scheduling appointments, ticket booking, hotel room booking, restaurant table bookings, etc. As the popularity of the chatbots is increasing, it's high time that you learn chatbot development. 

To make our lives easier, there are multiple chatbot platforms available that we can use to get started with chatbot development. Some of the platforms are powerful enough to let you create a bot without any programming knowledge. Dialogflow is one such platform.