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

• RubenSandwich 9y ago
  My arm chair guess? Dialogflow is owned by Google who is competing with Amazon Alexa with their Google Assistant/Home.
• rexreed 9y 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.
• matthewayne 9y 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 https://dialogflow.com/docs/integrations/alexa-exporter [1] https://dialogflow.com/docs/integrations/alexa-importer https://dialogflow.com/docs/integrations/alexa-importer [2] https://github.com/dialogflow/fulfillment-webhook-importer-nodejs https://github.com/dialogflow/fulfillment-webhook-importer-n...
• jhurliman 9y 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-echo-b743606906f5 https://blog.init.ai/alexa-can-you-add-custom-nlp-to-amazon-...