Engage with the Google Assistant

 

28 Jul 2020

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Dialogflow and Actions Builder

Allen Firstenberg

Software developer / Consultant
New York

 

Google Developer Expert for Assistant, GSuite,

IoT, Wearables, Identity

 

http://spiders.com/

http://prisoner.com/

Twitter: @afirstenberg

 

http://prisoner.com/ubi/

What are we talking about?

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What is the Google Assistant?

A conversation

between you and Google that helps you get things done

in your world.

Where do we find the Assistant?

Where do we find the Assistant?

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English French Spanish Portuguese
  AU   CA   ES   BR Cantonese
  CA   FR   419 Turkish Chinese (Trad.)
  GB ​  BE German Norwegian Hindi
  IN Dutch   DE Swedish Thai
  BE ​  BE ​  AT Danish Indonesian
  SG ​  NL ​  CH Italian Japanese
  US Polish ​  BE Russian Korean

What are Actions on Google?

Actions on Google is the API

that lets you engage in conversations

with other services

through the Google Assistant.

Where Actions Run

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Dialogflow

Actions Builder

Dialogflow

  • Actions on Google v2
  • Actions + other chat platforms
  • Many pre-defined entities
  • No command line
  • Intent-based design + context
  • Static response or webhook

Actions Builder

  • Actions on Google v3
  • Actions only
     
  • Fewer pre-defined entities
  • Command line
  • Graphical scene-based design
  • Conditionals, static prompts, and webhook

Natural Language Processing tools

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(And you can use your own NLP, if you need to)

https://spiders.com/

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Twitter: @afirstenberg

YT: "Questions and Allen"

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https://developers.google.com/assistant

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Engage with the Google Assistant: Dialogflow and Actions Builder

By Allen “Prisoner” Firstenberg

Engage with the Google Assistant: Dialogflow and Actions Builder

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