Introduction to DialogFlow

[@kevindhir]

Didn't expect to pass 1,000 views! I am more than happy to answer any questions, and taking suggestions on future videos. I am hoping to make one walking through creating a back-end for fulfillment with Node. Thanks for watching!

[@arunkaushik2909]

What do you mean when you say that dialogflow isn't flexible?

[@kevindhir]

I guess what I mean is, there's not much 'learning'. It is really just a conversational tree. You need to do a lot of explicit enumeration of how you want the conversations to flow.

[@risteardob2095]

How do you recommend working with external databases / APIs. e.g. say if I have over 30 intents and for each intent I want to call a REST API (some that get resources and some that set data e.g. update a users DB data based on something they have viewed / completed within Dialogflow). It seems that if you use the simple inline webhook editor you are limited to one index.js file and therefore it would become very messy. Furthermore, that tool is really only intended for simple use cases anyway. Alternatively, if you use the external webhook then that can only link to one API endpoint; you cannot set it up per intent and it has to be a Post request. Thus if you want to work with a REST based API you would have to use the single external API (that the external webhook connects to) to process every call based on intent name and other parameters in the JSON and then that Endpoint would need to call multiple other REST Endpoints. Both solutions seem sub optimal. IS there another way to work with REST Endpoints with Dialogflow?

[@vigneshks173]

Thanks for knowledge, I made an app because of you goo.gl/knWYnS

[@kevindhir]

@@vigneshks173 This is awesome, thanks a lot!

[@deryaslivka]

This was a great tutorial. Thank you! I just learned about Dialogflow (and Janis) this week and am soaking it all in. So excited to bring some natural language components to my FB Messenger Chatfuel bot that I've been developing. With Janis, I can also train my Df agent within Slack and she'll also send me alerts if a bot session is going wonky. This is so useful as I can jump in live to rescue the conversation (which automatically pauses my bot). I look forward to future insights on Df. I agree, the pre-population is a bit quirky and Df definitely needs to provide us easy access to list of contexts pronto!

[@soujorgeferreira]

Thnx Kevin. You took away all my basic doubts in your video. Here in Brazil we do not have many tutorials. Congratulations. I'm thinking of creating an assistant. : D

[@kevindhir]

Would you like to see an Introduction to DialogFlow V2? If yes, anything specific you'd like covered?

[@ginnanboy8698]

Hello Kevin. Thank you for the introduction. I would like to build an app in Unity with speech language detection. I would like to use Dialogflow. On KZbin I found someone who could setup Dialogflow suitable for Unity in just 5 minutes. Please see link below: kzbin.info/aero/PLDpH9QD5z6ch708eGopPYZkNyaClSdsLl However, some of the steps shown in the videos are unknown to me. The person in the video uses an Apple PC. I use Windows 10. If it is not too much to ask, can you make a video about how to setup Dialogflow for Unity on Windows 10? It would be nice if I can achieve the same as the DEMO video (the last video of the KZbin playlist). Thank you!

[@ricamourao]

I'll love that

[@lakehighland]

hey Kevin, I am pretty new to developing chat bots & programming in general. I need to watch this a few times over to get the gist haha!

[@saktiprasad3675]

Thanks. It was Helpful to get started for a beginner. Hope you make a video on V2 and touch some more functionalities.

[@aruniyer9448]

How can u add hyperlinks in the text response? my menu just wont br chocolate,strawberry n stuff...i would want to add a hyperlink to reach a site page where the detailed menu is present with the prices

[@jacoaucamp2155]

This helped me understand Dialogflow! Thank you

[@AhmedMujtabaOfficial]

How can I add custom sound to my actions? It isn't playing my intro audio url.

[@kevindhir]

If you have any suggestions for the next video to make, let me know below!

[@freefrom9to610]

how to use canlendar to set events and meetings in a google action, pls make a video on this.

[@freefrom9to610]

google calender

[@hainguyenau]

Can you show the mouse pointerin the video? It's hard to figure out where you're clicking on. Thanks.

[@snehitvaddi]

bro...make on linear and nonlinear conversations

[@KanzeeyStore]

how to add links, for example, i want the robot to ask the customer to sign in first, and attach the sign in page redirect to the message. and then i would like the robot to give as many product links or category links etc.

[@singhprakash194]

I want to call External Rest API (Body,Header,Authentication) in dialogflow , and want to get the response in the dialogflow,any help will be appreciated.

[@danylgoodall8442]

23:40 is when the live demo starts :)

[@WritankarBhattacharya]

how do i capture an entity that can have a lot of values? Like an employee number (which can have tens of thousands of values)

[@babbintandukar9959]

bro can i use that response json in my own api .to take action and how do i return response to dialogflow of that action

[@prasoonsrivas]

very nicely explained .... hats off .... when the next is going to upload in same context ...

[@OnlyOnesWhoKnow2]

Tnks man great work Best video for me on DF

[@ajprokop]

Have you tried to access a DialogFlow from an application? I am trying to access one from Java and keep running into a permissions problem: PERMISSION_DENIED: IAM permission 'dialogflow.sessions.detectIntent' on 'projects/newagent-a0ef5/agent' denied.

[@DonovanKovar007]

Thanks Kevin, this was very helpful. :)

[@EugeneMakhukhule]

hi kevin..can you please a video where you talk about Pre built agents and how to add them to my bot.

[@antonfruytier]

Is it possible to integrate this in WordPress on the website itself? I'd like to create a chatbot that can provide answers to clients about what our company does. Thank you.

[@kevindhir]

You could embed this into your wordpress site. dialogflow.com/docs/integrations/web-demo

[@avelamagazi1606]

Hey, I love the video. Gives a great amount of detail and everything is easy to understand. How do i use webhooks in dialog flow?

[@dhyanjoshi6431]

Excellent video, could you please let me know how to embed a link in the bot response?

[@andrewyzd7746]

Is a good video. May I also know how to apply fuzzy logic in dialogflow?

[@greigbloom3737]

Regarding guaranteeing a context specific intent is applied over a non contextual version, I've had success using intent priorities to control this.

[@kevindhir]

That's awesome to hear. I totally forgot to bring up intent priorities. I have used them in the past but not explored enough it seems, thanks for sharing!

[@IgorShkarin]

Logistics case. Deliver from city A to B. Two intents, very similar. Agent recognise always intent with city A. How can I fix it?

[@OliverSlezak]

Very helpful video.....may I please have a Kevin ice cream with Durian?

[@ricamourao]

Could you share this presentation slides with us?

[@kevindhir]

They're in the description.

[@ricamourao]

@@kevindhir Thank you so much! Could I make a copy of it? I'll translate to Portuguese to teach people here in Brazil more about DialogFlow

[@girishreddyedula2667]

I am building a chatbot using dialogflow for a corporate housing company. The task is when the user enters his 6 digit is number the chatbot has to read it and give the user first name out. Can some one tell me how to do it

[@kevindhir]

You'd probably have some sort of a map between your phone numbers (which I assume are unique 6 digits) and the person's name. You already probably have some sort of database with the user base. If this is not the case and you want the gimmicky fake way you could do this that would require manual updating, you could simply create an intent for each phone number that uses Exact Match.

[@girishreddyedula2667]

Kevin D I have a MySQL database . After the user enters his 6digit I’d number it should extract the first name of the use and reply ..Hey user !How can we help you . Please help me sort this issue Kevin . Regards

[@aasc7711]

my only gripes with this video is that you cannot read some of the text from the slides and you cannot see the mouse. sometimes you click on things and make no mention of it so have needed to keep rewinding. however ,thanks for sharing!

[@kevindhir]

Angel Serrano thanks for the feedback! i will try and find out how to make my mouse appear for future recordings.

[@jalpriv]

Thanks Kevin, good

[@MichaelPetersiscool]

"I want a scoop of poop" - programming for my 3 year old.

[@rohitnagal3704]

Question answering search engine and you don't know what query user enter and answer is based on articles. In this case dialogflow is helpful

[@LesHenderson]

Still no Contexts panel on DF a year and a half after your request. Give them another call please.

[@kevindhir]

They had such a great concept, got bought out, and did very little to improve it from what I can tell. Have not been using it much as of late.

[@giuliocomerci3277]

Kevin congratulations. I am a professor of Italian philology. I could build a chat bot where he talks with a writer?

[@kevindhir]

Hi Professor! That would be a relatively simple task, yes. :)

[@khushbookaur]

There's annoying noise in between the recording and it really hurts the ear.

[@tommysolaceYT]

Bear with him he was in class

[@TheArnaud44]

I would recommend maybe rehearsing the whole thing once so that you hesitate less and make the whole video smoother. Also we can barely here the guy in the background lol. Overall good video buddy :)

[@이지훈-n2e]

Please translate into Korean :)

[@umairgillani699]

Please talk less and and do more stuff, and be precise with your words. When someones watches tutorial likes these, in order to learn them from scratch, being a complete beginner, the person is focused on every single second, and if he receives whole lot of information which doesn't need to be conveyed on a particular point of time, it just makes him loose interest in tutorial

[@kevindhir]

I appreciate the advice.

[@southernergirl5245]

No idea what this is for

[@kevindhir]

That's unfortunate Beth! Consider watching other KZbin videos. Might I recommend: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o4XIo398eaydpK8