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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Watson: Quick Replies within Slots JSON
I'm trying to insert Facebook quick replies within a Watson dialog slot. I managed to do it at the node level, but cannot do it at the slot level. The syntax I'm using is this - same as the one at the node level, except I'm specifying the context…

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How can we set context variables for IBM Watson from backend
I want to pass some values to frontend in form of context variables in IBM Watson through my Node app. How can I achieve it?
I tried to add the value I want to add to current context variable object and sent that back. Still no help. Is there any…

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how can i test if context variable is undefined on watson dialog condition?
hi can i am creating a watson dialog bot, and i have a context variable that control the flow in some situations...
i need to test if a context variable was already defined (exists) in that moment... anyone knows how to do that?
i tried…

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Using different intonations with Watson text to speech
I am developing a PoC using Watson text to speech and Watson conversation.
Sometimes, the chatbot needs to ask a question, so I'd like text to speech to synthesize the voice using an interrogation intonation.
Is it possible to be done?

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Watson: Dialogs. Are they required?
We are working on a micro-service that interacts with Watson.
I was presented with the following argument: "There is no need to use dialogs in a Conversation project on Watson. Declaring the intents and entities is just enough to get the work…

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Negating conditions in Watson Conversation
I'm using Watson conversation to help run a virtual support system and am trying to figure out how to play with conditions a bit more. Specifically, I'm looking for a way to negate conditions or to specify a condition not found.
For example, I have…

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Node.js - Combine IBM Watson Discovery and Conversation Services
I know this may seem complicated but I have spent a week and a half trying to do this and can not figure it out. Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction. Thank you so much!
I am working with IBM Watson and Node.js to create a…

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IBM Watson conversation service error : cannot convert from 'method group' to 'conversation.onMessage'
I am trying to running IBM Watson conversation service in unity and following here, code snippet
private Conversation m_Conversation = new Conversation();
private string m_WrokspaceID = "xyz";
private string m_input = "help";
// Use…

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@ character is not displayed in Watson Conversation Service response string
In working with IBM Watson Conversation Service (WCS) I want to print an email address in the response. The problem is that WCS is neglecting all the characters after @ symbol and the @ character itself.
I tried using ' and \ to escape it, but it…

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IBM Watson Conversation: How to programmatically turn messages to counterexamples?
The IBM Watson Conversation service offers as part of its UI "Improve". It has the ability to see recent messages, their classification and then to reclassify or mark as irrelevant.
In the REST API for that conversation service there functions to…

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IBM Watson: How do I add a hyperlink to Watson Responses?
I've tried other responses mentioned on other forums but I'm still not able to get the right result.
As of this moment, this is what the layout looks like
Any help would be much appreciated!

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Difference between IBM Watson Conversation and Natural Language Understanding
I'm building an watson conversation service and I want to know different watson Conversation and Natural Language Understanding service.
I think Watson conversation service support Natural Language Understanding, such as intent, entity but Natural…

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Watson conversation output always same message even intent and input has changed (curl API with php)
I am trying to use the Watson conversation API for question and answer.. I am trying to call API for a particular conversation but every time it return the same output and the first level output. Can anybody help me on this? i am using php and curl…

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Bluemix Conversation, advancing the conversation
I have two conversation nodes defined. The first is triggered on conversation_start and asks the users's name. The second stores the user name from input.text in a context variable and asks if the user wants to take a brief survey or do something…

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Math calculation in Watson Conversation response
I am pretty starting some flows and testing, maybe this is a fool question, sorry.
I have a flow asking for some inputs (amount, and currency). I want the conversation bot to answer the total (amount * currency). I did several researches, but…

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