Hi PH, Thank you @picsoung for hunting us! 🚀 Super happy to reveal our new platform for creating Amazon Alexa & Google Assistant voice apps. And thanks to the whole team for building this tool that we hope will help more and more businesses launch their cross platform Voice Strategy to better serve their customers. Quick overview: ----------------- - Serverless Hybrid Programming: Visual Programming + Code = The best of both worlds. Visual => Quickly build your dialog flow with an intuitive drag-n-drop builder. Code => Add NodeJS code snippets in your flow to achieve your business logic: call APIs, databases, add account linking, ... We host and execute your code. - Cross Channel Platform: We abstract all the complexity of Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant APIs' to let you focus on what truely matters: The Voice User Interface. - Built in NLU: In order to offer the same user experience across all devices used by your users. - Analytics: Get key insights on your app to ensure it is on track - Multimodal Ready: Beyond verbal inputs, our conversation engine will soon handle other inputs coming from a touch screen or a camera. https://www.youtube.com/watch?ti... Give us a try and let us know ✌️

We are using it internally to build our vocal bot and they are very responsive to feedbacks and requests. Great team!

We are even looking at integrating their designer with our own APIs :)

Pros:

Great platform to develop Vocal bots. Unique visual designer solution with code integration that make it easy for devs AND marketing people

Cons:

Tough for them to keep with the evolutions of all the platforms

I have discovered Smartly about a year ago when they were still called "something Alexa designer". What a progress in such a short time! Not only they improved the UI and the flow to construct complex Conversational Application but they are now supporting both Alexa and Google Assistant. The tool is really intuitive and in less than an hour, you have a functioning application available on the biggest platforms. Perfect launch while AWS Re:Invent conference is happening! I also added them to my Made in 🇫🇷 collection🎉

How is it different from The Storyline .io ?

I really like the mix of a visual interface with the ability to add some code. It makes it easy to prototype a bot in minutes and evolves it afterward.

Pros:

Smartly.ai is a great tool to build multiplatform voicebots quickly

Cons:

Nothing so far.

I don't really know why people put .AI in every app when it's something completely different 🤔 You're a dev tool or you're targeting businesses? @hicham_t

Very motivated team with a product that improve every day.

Pros:

Multiplatform usage

Cons:

Integrate all APIs of different acctors to an improved user experience

Their Voice centric platform is a great solution to build cross-platform Voice UI apps

Pros:

Great solution and great team!

Cons:

They need to keep up with the rapidly evolving Alexa and Google platforms

I appreciated the onboarding, the easyness of configuration and the team support

Pros:

Nice interface and nice promise (one bot -> several platforms)

Cons:

I don't see yet

What about Cortana skills?

A perfect tool to build some voice application / chatbots.

The interface is clear and even a non dev can easily program a smart and useful chatbot.

Pros:

Nice plateform, easy to use and very efficient

Cons:

nothing yet...

Been working with Smartly when they were ... not that much :)

Developped demo bots for smart home use cases

Great team, great spirit

Pros:

- short learning path

- cross platform

- team support and kindness

Cons:

- not that much

- will need to keep their hightest standard when the platform will get bigger

They have develop a huge expertise in vocal solutions and their network is more and more extended; including vocal tools makers, vocal applications users, vocal community members and so on.

Pros:

Smartly.AI has a key resource : it's team. A team of expert working with an open mind when its comes to define and design applications

Cons:

No cons, for the moment- maybe a concern regarding how they will face an always growing vocal application ecosystem.

Smartly.ai seems like the go-to partner when creating a voice app nowadays.

Their team of developers, voice designers, project managers (etc.) is highly responsive and always ready to explain what it's about. You can feel the passion in what they're doing.

Besides, the platform lives up to the expectations and you can truly deliver a voice app in no time.

The algorithm seems to perform very well as well.

Congrats to them!

Pros:

- Sympathetic, open minded, hard working, passionate team

- Intuitive platform

- Experience (for the industry) in Voice apps and ML / NLU

Cons:

- None that I can see

I've really enjoyed using this so far! One snag: everytime we make an update, we have to go in and repaste the Intent Schema. We were using Flow.ai, and once it connected, you could make changes on their interface and it was automatically updated on Alexa. Am I missing something, or is that not a feature Smartly.ai has? It's a pretty important feature to lose.

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