Dialogflow
| Company type | Privately held |
|---|---|
| Industry | Natural language user interface |
| Founded | Arlington, Virginia, US (2010) |
| Headquarters | |
Key people | Ilya Gelfenbeyn, CEO Artem Goncharuk, CTO Pavel Sirotin, VP Knowledge and Interaction Design |
| Products | Assistant, api.ai |
| Website | www.speaktoit.com |
Speaktoit is a developer of human–computer interaction technologies based on natural language conversations. The company is best known for creating the Assistant (by Speaktoit), a virtual buddy for Android, iOS, and Windows Phone smartphones that performs tasks and answers users' question in a natural language.[1] Speaktoit has also created a natural language processing engine that incorporates conversation context like dialogue history, location and user preferences.
In May 2012, Speaktoit received a venture round (funding terms undisclosed) from Intel Capital.[2] In July 2014, Speaktoit closed their Series B funding led by Motorola Solutions Venture Capital with participation from new investor Plug and Play Ventures and existing backers Intel Capital and Alpine Technology Fund.[3]
Api.ai
In September 2014, Speaktoit released api.ai (the voice-enabling engine that powers Assistant) to third-party developers, allowing the addition of voice interfaces to apps based on Android, iOS, HTML5, and Cordova. [4][5] The SDK's contain voice recognition, natural language understanding, and text-to-speech. api.ai offers a web interface to build and test conversation scenarios. The platform is based on the natural language processing engine built by Speaktoit for its Assistant application.[4] Api.ai allows Internet of Things developers to include natural language voice interfaces in their products.[6]
References
- ^ "The Digital Personal Assistant Problem Siri Still Hasn't Solved". www.fastcompany.com. 8 August 2012. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
- ^ "Speaktoit Secures Funding From Intel". www.bloomberg.com. 25 May 2012. Retrieved 20 October 2012.
- ^ "Speaktoit Scores $2.6M to Put Virtual Assistant Into Cars, Robots and Wearables". http://blogs.wsj.com/. 18 July 2014. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
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- ^ Tolentino, Mellisa (19 September 2014). "New platforms, upgrades simplify life for IoT developers". http://siliconangle.com/.
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