Author: aravindmc

This is now offered inside Dialogflow CX itself.

I have made a lot of updates to my courses recently. I have merged multiple smaller courses into larger ones. I merged a bunch of mini-courses into a single course called Dialogflow ES Mini Courses I merged the no-code courses – Dialogflow Building Blocks, Dialogflow Conversation Design, Dialogflow Blackholes and Dialogflow Flowcharts – into a…

BotFlo CLI Tools is a collection of Python scripts which can help you with chatbot lifecycle management. In other words, it provides you with tools which can accelerate nearly every step of your bot building process. These are mostly based on the online BotFlo app (and even share some of the code base). Differences Here…

First published: Dec 2020 | Last Updated: June 2022 I recently added a chatbot to this website as a case study for my Improving Dialogflow ES Accuracy course. It was a reasonably complex bot with multiple conversation turns, and it provided tips on speeding up the development of the user’s Dialogflow bot based on their…

I have created a tool which you can use to improve the accuracy of your Dialogflow ES bot. Link to the tool It checks for basic mistakes and also makes recommendations based on the best practices I recommend. Here is a list of things the tool checks. You can also do all these manually, but…

First published: Nov 2017 | Last updated: June 2022 The Chatbase service, which was recently shut down, provided analytics for Dialogflow bots. However, it was missing an important feature: you had no way to ensure that the intent mapping was accurate. As a result, everything that was built on top of that assumption was not…

In a previous article, I discussed how to measure the accuracy of your Dialogflow ES chatbot. However, the accuracy usually needs to be combined with the deflection rate of your chatbot to get the full picture of its usefulness. Note: The deflection rate is defined as the number of times the bot deflects the query…

Sometimes users prefer to talk to a live person and not to a chatbot. This is one of the features which is not supported by Dialogflow Messenger, so we will use the Zoho SalesIQ + Dialogflow ES integration for this example. Create an intent which handles common user phrases Make a list of things the…

First published: 2017 | Last Updated: May 2022 This tutorial used to refer to inline webhooks before. But I have updated it to use a simple Python based webhook for two reasons: I don’t recommend using the fulfillment library and Python is better suited than NodeJS for Dialogflow bots. The problem A little while back…

First published: Aug 2017 | Last Updated: May 2022 So let us understand the question: When you work with Dialogflow you notice that it follows the “user types something -> agent replies with an answer” sequence. Suppose you wish to get the agent to say something before the user types anything, how do you do…

First published: Nov 2017 | Last updated: May 2022 Sometimes I see questions like these in the Dialogflow forum. So, I got one intent working. How can I now “move” the conversation to the next intent? Answer In Intent1, declare an output context called contextA. In the next intent you want to fire, use contextA…

This is NOT an article which gives you a comparison of Python and NodeJS when building your Dialogflow bot. This is very specific to my website, and explains how you can make the most of the materials you find on it. Also, if you have already started using NodeJS, that is OK too. This article…