Developing actions for Google Home

Google provides a developer tool to build Google Home actions / Google Assistant applications. The underlying NLU on the Google Assistant is called Dialogflow (previously known as api.ai, which was acquired by Google in 2016).

In this tutorial, I will focus on the Dialogflow tool available for building conversational applications.

  1. Create your account or log in: To start building actions, you will need to open an account on Google Actions. Visit https://console.actions.google.com/ and use your Google account to log in. If needed, create a new free account.
    Developing actions for Google Home
  2. Add/import your project: To start a new project or import a ...

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