Watson Assistant (formerly Watson Conversation) is a Watson Developer Cloud service that combines a number of cognitive technologies to easily simulate a more human-like conversational interface. See https://www.ibm.com/watson/services/conversation/ for details. For API reference see: https://www.ibm.com/watson/developercloud/conversation/api/v1/
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Recording WAV to IBM Watson Speech-To-Text
I'm trying to record audio and immediately send it to IBM Watson Speech-To-Text for transcription. I've tested Watson with a WAV file loaded from disk, and that worked. On the other end, I've also tested with recording from microphone and storing it…

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What is the difference between Watson Assistant (formerly Watson Conversation) and Watson Assistant Solutions
I'm only familiar with Watson Assistant because I've done some work with it but I've never used Watson Assistant Solutions.
Is it a new API or an app on top of Watson Assistant? When should I use one or the other?

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Curl request equivalent in VB.NET
As they are, I am trying to use the Watson service, which makes a post request to a URL, and the cURL code is as follows. How could I do the equivalent of this request in Visual Studio with the Visual Basic language?
curl -X POST -u…

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Best practices for creating intents/entities with IBM Conversation Service
I am currently working with the IBM Conversation Service. Does there exist any best practices for creating intents other than the information in the official docs or the ones documented here:…

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Watson Assistant API V2 "manages the context automatically" - more details?
This is a question about Watson Assistant API V1/V2 difference. The doc says like this:
Note that if your app uses the v1 API, it communicates directly with the dialog skill, bypassing the orchestration and state-management capabilities of the…

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Parsing email and phone number entities?
Is there a way to train Watson to recognize email entities and phone numbers without resorting to regular expresses?

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Watson Conversation in a live phone call
Can someone show me how to use Watson Conversation and other services (e.g. Twilio) to make a live phone call and carry on a conversation?
I am able to use Watson Conversation, Twilio, and NodeRED to carry a conversation with a chatbot over SMS. I…

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How i can determine negative answers using Watson Conversation
For example: If the user writes in the Watson Conversation Service:
"I wouldn't want to have a pool in my new house, but I would love to live in a Condo"
How you can know that user doesn't want to have a pool, but he loves to live in a Condo?

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Get Watson Conversation Workspaces
I am using Watson Conversation services on Bluemix. We have multiple Conversation workspaces within the service to enable better segmentation of the problem space.
I need to load information on the set of available workspaces within the Conversation…

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How to implement watson conversation with multiple workspaces
In the webinar it has mentioned about using multiple conversation workspaces to handle different topics of a project (e.g. functional conversations vs off-topics). How should we implement this design?
Say if we have two workspaces, one is…

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How can I integrate Bluemix Conversation and Speech-To-Text and Text-To-Speech
I would like to use the Bluemix Conversation sample application
and add speech input and output to it. There are other sample applications for Bluemix TTS and STT available.
What are options to integrate these 3 functions and which of them are…

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Watson doesn't get zeros
Let's say I have a conversation services configured in IBM Watson ready to recognize a number given in words and in pieces. For example, if I have the number 1320, it can be sent as thirteen twenty or thirteen two zero, etc.
In the first case I'll…

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IBM Watson Slots won't accept 0
I'm trying out the slots feature in IBM Watson Conversations and have hit an issue which I'm not sure how to work around.
I have a use case that is collecting a number of pieces of information from a user so using the Slots feature makes sense.…

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How to extract current date in watson conversation
I need to create a condition, in Watson Conversation dialog model, like this:
if "today's date" < 04-15-2017 do something.
else do something else.
I prefer not asking the user for current date and save it.
I tried many ways but they don't work, I…

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How to add more than one skill to an assistant in IBM Watson Assistant?
I have created few skills under IBM Watson Assistant and also created one assistant to link the one skill. I would like to know how to add more than one skills to a single assistant ?

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