Working with Google Assistant

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Demo shows a working integration with Actions on Google and API AI (Dialogflow), backed by Firebase Cloud Functions and Node.js, using a static JSON of speakers and events. It maps intents and entities (names, topics, events), does full‑text lookups, and handles two‑step flows, with conversation ending behavior when using assistant.tell. It proves the idea but is flaky in practice (network, special‑character and ambiguous‑entity issues) and surfaces design lessons like don’t annoy the user and expect to fine‑tune entity variations.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 2:51Personal experience
3. 6:26How integrations work
4. 9:18Intents and entities in API.AI
5. 13:53Entity variations and conflicts
6. 17:53Mapping phrases to intents
7. 20:24Fulfillment with Firebase Functions
8. 23:38Multi-step conversations
9. 26:31Demo walkthrough
10. 30:52Design principles
11. 32:59Alternative integrations

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