Build chatbot with IBM Watson Assistant service

Create a Bluemix console account to access IBM Watson services. Launch the Watson assistant service, review pricing plans, and create an instance for hands-on use.

Explore IBM Watson services, including Watson assistant, text to speech, speech to text, and visual recognition. Learn how to access console and integrate these services in web and mobile apps.

Explore what a chatbot is, how it detects user intent, asks for clarifications, and delivers meaningful, 24/7 responses using IBM Watson assistant for customer care and support workflows.

Explore how to create and train a skill in IBM Watson Assistant, define intents and entities, build dialog, and enable responses that pull information from external sources.

Identify user intent to determine how the system should respond, define intents with examples like booking a flight, and organize them within the flight booking skill.

Learn how to build and manage dialogues in IBM Watson Assistant, define conditions, retain context, and craft responses that use welcome messages and guide users to book flight tickets.

define and train entities in the IBM Watson assistant, including system and user-defined entities, and enable a location entity to extract city names and dates from user input.

Learn to use context variables in the IBM Watson Assistant service, with names starting with $, to store city data, pass it in responses, and manage across turns.

Learn to configure options in IBM Watson Assistant to attach suggestions to responses, so users can click an option and receive the associated response without retyping input.

Learn to train your chatbot with IBM Watson Assistant by building intents, dialogues, and slot filling to handle user input like flight bookings and not interested responses.

Convert text to speech using the IBM Watson text-to-speech service, supporting multiple languages and voices, and demonstrate integration with an app for reading education content and emails.

Explore Watson's speech-to-text service, converting voice input into text across languages for voice control, meetings translation, and dictation. Learn to authenticate, choose models, and integrate with applications.

Connect the Watson Assistant to your application by authenticating with an API key and sending user input to receive a contextual response with identified entities.