Dialogflow is a natural language understanding platform used to design and integrate a conversational user interface into mobile apps, web applications, devices, bots, interactive voice response systems and related uses.
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| Original author(s) | Ilya Gelfenbeyn, Artem Goncharuk, Pavel Sirotin |
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| Type | Conversational AI |
| Website | cloud |
History
editIn May 2012, Speaktoit received a venture round (funding terms undisclosed) from Intel Capital.[1] In July 2014, Speaktoit closed their Series B funding led by Motorola Solutions Venture Capital with participation from new investor Plug and Play Ventures and existing backers Intel Capital and Alpine Technology Fund.[2]
In September 2014, Speaktoit released api.ai (the voice-enabling engine that powers Assistant) to third-party developers, allowing the addition of voice interfaces to apps based on Android, iOS, HTML5, and Cordova.[3][4] The SDK's contain voice recognition, natural language understanding, and text-to-speech. api.ai offers a web interface to build and test conversation scenarios. The platform is based on the natural language processing engine built by Speaktoit for its Assistant application.[3] Api.ai allows Internet of Things developers to include natural language voice interfaces in their products.[5] Assistant and Speaktoit's websites now redirect to api.ai's website Archived 2017-10-10 at the Wayback Machine, which redirects to the Dialogflow website.
Google bought the company in September 2016[6] and was initially known as API.AI; it provides tools to developers building apps ("Actions") for the Google Assistant virtual assistant.
The organization discontinued the Assistant app on December 15, 2016.
In October 2017, it was renamed as Dialogflow.[7]
In November 2017, Dialogflow became part of Google Cloud Platform.[8]
References
edit- ^ "Speaktoit Secures Funding From Intel". Bloomberg. 25 May 2012. Retrieved 20 October 2012.
- ^ "Speaktoit Scores $2.6M to Put Virtual Assistant Into Cars, Robots and Wearables". The Wall Street Journal. 18 July 2014. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
- ^ a b Wierema, Sam (16 September 2014). "Build your own Siri: Api.ai offers voice integration for all". The Next Web.
- ^ "api.ai Documentation". Archived from the original on 2014-12-31. Retrieved 2015-01-09.
- ^ Tolentino, Mellisa (19 September 2014). "New platforms, upgrades simplify life for IoT developers". Silicon Angle.
- ^ "Google acquires API.AI".
- ^ Introducing Dialogflow, the new name for api.ai
- ^ Dialogflow Release Notes
Further reading
edit- Brandon, John (June 1, 2013). "Speaktoit Review". Laptop Magazine. Retrieved February 17, 2017.
- Hopkins, Brent W (April 3, 2012). "Speaktoit Assistant 0.1.2 review". PC Advisor. Archived from the original on February 17, 2017. Retrieved February 17, 2017.
- Warman, Matt (October 13, 2011). "SpeakToIt Android app review". The Telegraph. Retrieved February 17, 2017.
- "You Can Actually Teach This Virtual Assistant for Android". Tom's Guide. January 28, 2013. Retrieved February 17, 2017.