Conversational UX Platform

[engelgabriel]

Build intelligent speech interfaces for apps, devices, and web
Ref: https://api.ai/

[jonbaer]

I think this could be something like an admin server package inside of rocketchat-hubot (ie: Rocket.Cat) which allows for full customizations (scripts to load, NLP/NER setup, etc) ... there is a possibility that more bot applications (and domains) may come from work being done on Botkit (https://github.com/howdyai/botkit) than Hubot at some point so it would be nice to see support for both. I think the api.ai tools are pretty domain specific and could probably already work out of the box with integration webhooks as is. I think this all depends on how much bot setup you would like to see happen inside of Rocket.Chat itself (from scalability viewpoint it may need to be a different app IMHO).

[timkinnane]

Seems like some very broad issues being discussed here that would not be addressed in this repo. @engelgabriel should we close or re-purpose this issue? It might be actionable to support a Dialogflow adapter, other than that I think the larger issue of creating an interface for conversation design would be something specific to each bot platform/framework. I don't see it being possible to provide as an agnostic UX unless it was simply embedding the dashboard within admin views.

[TwizzyDizzy]

As discussed: please add a label "feature-needs-review".

/cc @seanpackham

Cheers
Thomas

[timkinnane]

Closing now as this discussion predates the bots project which has now identified targeted framework adapters for

• Bot platform adapter for Botkit #9937 Botkit
• Bot platform adapter for Rasa #10457 Rasa
• Bot platform adapter for Botpress #5772 Botpress