In parallel with the recent surge of chatbots and voice platforms, we've seen a proliferation of tools and platforms that provide a service to extract intent from text and management of conversational flows that you can hook into. DialogFlow (formerly API.ai), which was acquired by Google, is one such ‘natural-language-understanding as a service’ offering that competes with wit.ai and Amazon Lex among other players in this space.
In parallel with the recent surge of chatbots and voice platforms, we've seen a proliferation of tools and platforms such as api.ai that provide a service to extract intent from text and management of conversational flow that you can hook into. Recently acquired by Google, this "natural-language-understanding as a service" offering competes with other players in this space such as wit.ai and Amazon's Lex.