9 Building for Google Assistant

This chapter covers

  • Examining Google Assistant and how it differs from other platforms
  • Learning the difference between the Actions SDK and Dialogflow
  • Building an interaction model in Dialogflow
  • Creating a Dialogflow-powered action

Already you’ve seen the basics of a good VUI and how to build an Alexa skill. Alexa, though, is not the only major voice-first platform. Nearly as prominent is Google, with Google Assistant coming on the Google Home and third-party devices. Although it was released after Alexa, Google has taken hold in the market, and may have even caught up to Amazon in the number of devices sold by the time you read this. As I write this, in 2019, Google has been consistently growing faster than ...

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