Best Conversational AI Platforms

Compare the Top Conversational AI Platforms as of October 2024

What are Conversational AI Platforms?

Conversational AI platform software assists in the development of automating customer service and customer interactions using AI, natural language processing, natural language generation, chatbot technology, and more. Compare and read user reviews of the best Conversational AI platforms currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    IBM watsonx Assistant
    IBM watsonx Assistant (Formerly Watson Assistant) is a market-leading enterprise conversational AI platform that allows you to build intelligent virtual and voice assistants that can provide customers with fast, consistent and accurate answers across any messaging platform, application, device or channel. Using artificial intelligence and large language models, watsonx Assistant learns from customer conversations, improving its ability to resolve issues the first time while removing the frustration of long wait times, tedious searches and unhelpful chatbots. Most chatbots try to mimic human interactions, frustrating customers when a misunderstanding arises. IBM watsonx Assistant is more than a chatbot. It knows when to search for an answer from a knowledge base, when to ask for clarity and when to direct users to a human agent for more assistance. And since it can be deployed in any cloud or on-premises environment – smarter AI is finally available wherever you need it.
    Starting Price: $140 per month
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    Dialogflow
    Dialogflow from Google Cloud is a natural language understanding platform that makes it easy to design and integrate a conversational user interface into your mobile app, web application, device, bot, interactive voice response system, and so on. Using Dialogflow, you can provide new and engaging ways for users to interact with your product. Dialogflow can analyze multiple types of input from your customers, including text or audio inputs (like from a phone or voice recording). It can also respond to your customers in a couple of ways, either through text or with synthetic speech. Dialogflow CX and ES provide virtual agent services for chatbots and contact centers. If you have a contact center that employs human agents, you can use Agent Assist to help your human agents. Agent Assist provides real-time suggestions for human agents while they are in conversations with end-user customers.
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    Twilio Messaging
    Build seamless conversations over preferred channels using trusted, reliable messaging solutions with Twilio MessagingX. Easily add and integrate channels to match your customers’ preferences—without needing custom code or rebuilt architecture. Twilio is trusted to send and receive over 130 billion messages a year. Engage customers around the world with a platform that can send messages to over 180 countries, on infrastructure that’s optimized for reliable global delivery at scale. We support SMS, MMS, WhatsApp, chat, Facebook Business Messenger, and Google's Business Messages, all in one platform, to integrate communications at critical touchpoints of your customer journey. Twilio’s APIs make sending and receiving messages across channels easy. Find the documentation, sample code, and developer tools you need to build exactly what you want, fast. We’ll handle the complexity of mobile carriers and global regulations, so you can focus on building.
    Starting Price: $0.0079 per message
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    kama DEI

    kama DEI

    kama.ai

    kama DEI truly understands the context and human impact of your situation or inquiry the way people do. Our Natural Language Understanding technology, combined with our proprietary knowledge base, mirrors the way humans understand and infer the more complex meanings behind the literal typed or spoken words. Our knowledge base is easily configured in natural language, and guided by human values, that we all understand. Conversation journeys deliver prioritized product and service information, directly the way your subject matter experts, product marketers, support technicians, or service practitioners wish to convey it. No data scientists or programmers are required. Our Virtual Agents can support your organization over website chat interfaces interface, Facebook Messenger, smart speakers, or from within mobile applications. Ultimately, we get the right information, to the right people, at the right time, increasing client engagement, 24x7, and building your brand's loyalty.
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    Starting Price: $399 per month (plus setup)
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    Pipedrive

    Pipedrive

    Pipedrive

    Pipedrive is a web-based sales CRM (customer relationship management) software that lets sales teams track pipelines, optimize leads, manage deals and automate their entire sales process to focus on selling. Pipedrive’s simple interface empowers salespeople to streamline workflows and unite sales tasks in one workspace. Unlock instant sales insights with Pipedrive’s visual sales pipeline and fine-tune your strategy with robust reporting features and a personalized AI Sales Assistant. Reach the right contacts at the right time with intelligent lead segmenting and activity reminders that tell you when to take action. When it’s time to seal the deal, compose instant, irresistible sales emails in just one click. With Pipedrive, winning has never been easier.
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    Starting Price: $14/month (billed annually)
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    CSS IMPACT

    CSS IMPACT

    CSS, Inc

    CSS IMPACT is a leading provider of Next-Gen Financial Ecosystems & Omnichannel Engagement cloud platforms. Featuring HD 2.0 | Ai - an Agent-less “Ai” (Artificial Intelligence) Digital Consumer or Debtor Engagement bot for credit, billing, collections & revenue cycle management. This “Digital & Voice First Ai" servicing technology can answer common questions, accept payments, & negotiate accounts with a frictionless positive experience without changing the consumer's behavior by using new IoT channels of communications, such as Google Assistant, Google Ai Voice (phone), Text, Chat, Email, Online smart portals, as well as traditional call center technologies - Dialers, Click-to-dial, IVR & Telephones.
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    Zoho SalesIQ
    Zoho SalesIQ is an all-in-one customer engagement, live chat, and analytics platform. It unifies your marketing, sales, and customer support efforts providing your customers a great experience, and boosting business growth. Get to know your prospects better and initiate the right conversation with them at exactly the right time. SalesIQ is optimized to suit the customer communication needs of B2B and B2C businesses of all sizes. It is equipped with built-in audio calling, screen sharing, visitor information, lead identification, a drag-and-drop custom bot builder, an AI-driven chatbot with a human touch that automates your customer engagement, and much more. It is trusted by over 450,000 businesses, including giants like Mahindra & Mahindra, Renault, IIFL, Suzuki, Zee5, Fluitec, and Borner Corp. to serve their customers at every stage of the customer lifecycle. We have a live chat software starting at $0 that scales with your business without burning a hole in your pocket.
    Starting Price: $0/month
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    Social Intents

    Social Intents

    Social Intents

    Live Chat for Microsoft Teams, Slack, Google Chat, Zoom, and ChatGPT enables you to chat with website visitors right from the business collaboration tools you already use. Build safe ChatGPT chatbots trained on your website content and knowledge base with 1 click. Then escalate chats to human agents as needed. Offer great customer service and sales support right from Microsoft Teams, Slack, Google Chat, Zoom, and Webex without the need for another messaging tool. Now with WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and SMS integration for omnichannel customer support. No need to learn additional software to support customers. Engage potential customers when they need your help, close more deals, and increase online revenue.
    Starting Price: $39 per month
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    Pylon

    Pylon

    Pylon

    Pylon is an All-in-one B2B Support Platform for modern B2B businesses. We bring together everything a post-sales teams team needs including a ticketing system, B2B omnichannel integrations (Slack Connect, Microsoft Teams), modern chat widget, knowledge base, AI support bot, account management, customer marketing, and more. The support system for B2B companies. Allow your customers to get support wherever they'd like and enable multiple support tiers. Let AI draft support articles for you based on your issue resolutions. Use Triggers to codify business processes and workflows, and create Macros to streamline common responses. Broadcast new features, newsletters, and more to your customers and track engagement. A dedicated place to store, track, and organize all customer data. A shared view to give your stakeholders visibility into their team's active issues.
    Starting Price: $59 per month per seat
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    Best Brain

    Best Brain

    Best Brain

    Best Brain is a cutting-edge generative AI app builder platform that enables businesses to create AI agents for 24/7 customer support across web chat and WhatsApp, using multilingual NLP for accurate, human-like interactions based on diverse data sources. Web Chat AI Agent Conversational AI : NLP-enabled conversational AI/agents power both Web Chatbot and WhatsApp Chatbot, enabling them to understand and respond to user queries in a natural, human-like manner 24x7. Integration with Multiple Data Sources: Leverages a variety of knowledge base (PDF, JSON, CSV, Database, API) to pull accurate information for responses. Business Process Automation: Automates tasks such as support ticket creation, work order generation, payment processing and many more. Omnichannel Presence: Enables businesses to engage with customers on WhatsApp, and serve customers 24x7. Multilingual Support: Offers support in multiple languages Sentiment Analysis: Analyzes customer call recordings
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    Starting Price: $599/month
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    Ochatbot

    Ochatbot

    Ometrics

    Ochatbot’s leading AI chatbot features are designed for ecommerce platforms for Shopify chatbots, BigCommerce chatbots, WooCommerce chatbots and Magento chatbots as well as B2B sales and support chatbot. Lift revenues from 20% to 40% when the shopper engages with Ochatbot and reduce support tickets from 25% to 45%. No code, auto install AI platform. Our Pro and Enterprise plans include an eCommerce Guarantee. Ochatbot engages customers overcoming sales obstacles, providing product recommendations, upselling and cross-selling, abandoned cart, and answering support questions including order tracking. The AI chatbot communicates through NLP textual conversations becoming smarter over time about your products and services. The AI chatbot determines the customers AI Happiness Sentiment, Customer Reaction data along with marketing and sales insights. Ochatbot also comes with 9 conversion optimization tools such as 80+ Leadbots, Offer Sliders, Popups, live chat and more.
    Starting Price: Free
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    SalesMachines.ai

    SalesMachines.ai

    SalesMachines.ai

    SalesMachines offers various AI models and Conversation packages that are user-friendly and intelligent, just like SmartPhone calling plans. We constantly update our AI models, similar to how Apple updates their Smartphones. We strive to provide the best AI models and conversation plans. Powered by OpenAI's GPT 4 Turbo Technology: Our AI's use latest and greatest systems, creating responses that are safer and more helpful. Our team are constantly seeking new machine learning and large learning models (LLM's) to enhance your projects. We create previously unimaginable features that allow for natural, adaptable conversations that can follow various user paths without the need for complicated programming. Tried doing it yourself? Consider hiring pros. Smart. Easy. Affordable.
    Starting Price: $199
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    Apstellar AI Voice Bot
    AI Voice Bot is a Conversational Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology which enables an meaningful and humanized communication between software system and humans. When an AI Voice Bot system is built to perfection, the AI Voice Bot system could deliver a indistinguishable experience from could have been delivered by a human operator.
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    Freshdesk

    Freshdesk

    Freshworks

    Freshdesk is a cloud-based customer service software that helps businesses provide exceptional customer service across every customer touchpoint. With Freshdesk, businesses can: - Manage customer conversations across multiple channels such as email, phone, chat, social media, etc., from a unified view - Improve agent productivity with smart workflow automation rules - Deliver seamless self-service experiences with AI-powered chatbots and branded help centers - Monitor key performance metrics with advanced analytics and custom reports Over 50,000+ customers including Hugo Boss, Toshiba, Cisco, The Atlantic, Chargebee, Grofers, and PhonePe trust Freshdesk to help them provide faster customer service with ease.
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    Starting Price: $15.00/month/user
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    Zendesk

    Zendesk

    Zendesk

    Build exceptional customer experiences with Zendesk. The leading provider of software and solutions for better customer relationships, Zendesk empowers businesses to be more reliable, flexible, and scalable. Its family of products include Support, an integrated customer support solution; Chat, live chat and messaging tool; Talk, call center software; Explore for analytics and reporting; Inbox, shared team inbox; Guide, a knowledge base and self service soltuion; and Connect + Outbound for proactive campaigns.
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    Starting Price: $5 per month per user
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    LumenVox

    LumenVox

    LumenVox

    Transforming customer engagement with AI-driven speech recognition and voice authentication technology. We’ve spent the last 20 years empowering our partners’ success through collaboration. Our curiosity keeps us innovating for the next 20. Our flexible speech-enabling technology enables you to build a solution that fulfills all your customers’ demands, affordably and reliably. We do one thing, and we do it well. And that's speech-enabling your applications. Finally, deliver great voice automation and interactions. Whether short and simple commands, or conversational questions, LumenVox ASR and TTS is accurate and affordable, helping you improve efficiencies on both sides of the phone line. You’ll never repeat yourself again. We provide you with the utmost flexibility from a capabilities, deployment and monetization perspective. If you can think it, you can build it with LumenVox. Shorten your development to deployment time with our easy, intuitive technology and toolsets.
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    Drift

    Drift

    Drift

    In a world where instant and on-demand is the norm, your customers' expectations have never been higher — and companies that deliver fast, easy, and personalized buying experiences are the ones that will win. That's where Drift can help. The Drift platform combines chat, email, video, and automation to remove the friction from business buying. With Drift, you can start conversations with future customers now, on their terms. There are over 50,000 businesses that use Drift today to generate more revenue, shrink sales cycles, and make buying easy. Conversational Marketing connects you to visitors in real-time conversations, so you can surface the right content, answer questions, or qualify and convert buyers into a sales meeting.
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    BotPenguin

    BotPenguin

    BotPenguin

    Presenting an AI chatbot assistant with unlimited patience & wits to serve your customers. Enter, BotPenguin. BotPenguin is the most dependable agent in your team, helping customers & visitors with routine queries to expert support anytime through Live Chat, flawless integrations, and a unified inbox. It is the sharpest tool in your shed with no-code ChatGPT integration, adding a touch of godly intelligence in the most human language. Also, you can train it on your own data to make it a spitting image of your brand. Automate meaningful interactions across your website, WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, MS Teams, & more. On all platforms, BotPenguin's conversational AI enriches customer relationships with contextual responses just like you would. It's easy to implement with zero dev time & setup costs.
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    Starting Price: $150/year
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    e-bot7

    e-bot7

    e-bot7 GmbH

    Simplifying Conversational AI. We automate Customer-Facing Conversations. Simple, Fast, Efficient. The leading & easy to use Conversational AI platform. Integrate on all channels and tools in any language. Launch within minutes. Manage all bots across your organization in one platform made for non-technical and technical people. Plug and play technology – no coding required. Agent+AI® hybrid model (real-time supervised learning). Omnichannel integration (communication channels & backend systems).
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    Tidio

    Tidio

    Tidio

    Tidio is a live chat service which allows you to communicate with your customers easily, also with the help of chatbots. It is designed specifically for many platforms in the online community. Once you install the plugin, you will be ready to take full advantage of the benefits our service provides. A free plan is available! One compact solution can delight your customers and fuel your sales. Half of all online customers prefer live chat over any other communication channel. Connect Tidio to all websites and platforms via dedicated plugins, without coding. The Tidio live chat widget adjusts to your customers’ screens, so they can write to you on mobile and tablet. Our live chat widget is customizable: you can change its placement and color, so it fits with your website aesthetics. You can adjust the positioning of the live chat button in a mobile version of the widget.
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    Starting Price: $16 per month
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    Smith.ai Live Website Chat
    Smith.ai Live Website Chat is the fastest & friendliest way to capture, screen & convert website leads. Our Live Chat agents answer questions, screen leads & schedule appointments 24/7. Pay for relevant chats only. Easy setup on all website platforms. Instant chat transcripts in your email & CRM. Instant chat transcripts in your email & CRM. SMS included. Let customers call you with Chat to Call. Smith.ai Live Chat is the most effective & affordable way to convert website leads to grow your business.
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    Starting Price: $140/month
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    Outreach

    Outreach

    Outreach

    The Outreach Sales Execution Platform helps sales teams efficiently create pipeline and predictably close more deals. Outreach is the only complete platform that empowers the entire sales organization — from sellers to front-line managers, sales leadership, and ops — to create and close more pipeline. If you're looking to win more deals by personalizing, prioritizing, and analyzing sales activities, turn to Outreach. Outreach is the #1 sales engagement platform dedicated to make every sales team more effective at selling. From creating pipeline to optimizing sales workflows, Outreach helps to ensure that you achieve your sales goals. Top tools include sales sequences and dialer, sales email and tracking, outreach everywhere, sales intelligence, email and content templates, analytics and reporting, and coaching analytics.
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    WotNot

    WotNot

    WotNot

    WotNot automates your customer interactions at scale with chatbots. Solve business challenges like getting more leads, booking more appointments, scaling your customer support with cutting-edge chatbots. Customers use WotNot to provide a personalized customer experience to their current or future customers which is available 24/7, responds instantly, totally reliable, and speaks the customer language. With WotNot's No-code Bot Builder, you can build bots fairly easily with an intuitive visual builder. Manage multiple bots for different activities based on the triggers and conditions defined by you. Also, WotNot offers a done-for-you service wherein our team of experienced conversation design experts understand your needs and carefully create a conversation flow that matches the needs of your business and keep optimizing the flow by reviewing the results. Join 3000+ businesses across the world trusting WotNot with their customer interactions.
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    Starting Price: $99/Month
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    Graphlogic GL Platform
    Graphlogic Conversational AI Platform consists on: Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Conversational AI for enterprises, leveraging state-of-the-art Natural Language Understanding (NLU) technology to create advanced chatbots, voicebots, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Text-to-Speech (TTS) solutions, and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines with Large Language Models (LLMs). Key components: - Conversational AI Platform - Natural Language understanding - Retrieval augmented generation or RAG pipeline - Speech-to-Text Engine - Text-to-Speech Engine - Channels connectivity - API builder - Visual Flow Builder - Pro-active outreach conversations - Conversational Analytics - Deploy everywhere (SaaS / Private Cloud / On-Premises) - Single-tenancy / multi-tenancy - Multiple language AI
    Starting Price: 75/1250 MAU/month
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    Freshchat

    Freshchat

    Freshworks

    Freshchat is the modern messaging solution that delivers effortless customer service for the digital-first customer by bringing together artificial and human intelligence across messaging channels. Key Value Propositions: 1. Smarter Conversations: Available across first and third party messaging platforms including web, mobile, in-app, WhatsApp, Apple Business Chat, Facebook Messenger and more 2. Smarter Self-service: Deploy AI-powered chatbots in the front lines to guide customers to resolve their queries - from informational to transactional 3. Smarter Operations: Reduce the cost of providing support by switching to messaging and scale customer service without linearly scaling team size
    Starting Price: $15.00/month/user
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    ChatGPT

    ChatGPT

    OpenAI

    ChatGPT is a language model developed by OpenAI. It has been trained on a diverse range of internet text, allowing it to generate human-like responses to a variety of prompts. ChatGPT can be used for various natural language processing tasks, such as question answering, conversation, and text generation. ChatGPT is a pre-trained language model that uses deep learning algorithms to generate text. It was trained on a large corpus of text data, allowing it to generate human-like responses to a wide range of prompts. The model has a transformer architecture, which has been shown to be effective in many NLP tasks. In addition to generating text, ChatGPT can also be fine-tuned for specific NLP tasks such as question answering, text classification, and language translation. This allows developers to build powerful NLP applications that can perform specific tasks more accurately. ChatGPT can also process and generate code.
    Starting Price: Free
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    AI Rudder

    AI Rudder

    AI Rudder

    AI Rudder is a software company that harnesses the power of AI voice automation to supercharge customer experiences. With AI voice assistants, your call center can make quality human-like calls at lightning speeds, collecting and analysing data automatically to reach and activate more customers. AI Rudder helps call centers reduce costs by automating repetitive tasks and lowering agent workload. This free up agents to focus on things only humans can do. Over the long term, AI Rudder aims to rethink the future of business communication.
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    Landbot.io

    Landbot.io

    Landbot

    Landbot.io is a no-code chatbot platform that empowers businesses to build frictionless conversational experiences from end-to-end. Turning conversations into profitable outcomes, Landbot helps Marketing, Operations, and Customer Service teams triple their efficiency and cut operating costs by 30% or more. Whether it's for WhatsApp, Web, or Messenger, anyone can create automated chatbot flows to better engage customers and increase conversion rates. Landbot is also leveraging recent advancements in AI and ChatGPT to help make the chatbot building experience even more accessible, combining the no-code capabilities of Landbot with other Large Language Models.
    Starting Price: $45 per month
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    Herbie.ai

    Herbie.ai

    Herbie.ai

    Herbie.ai – A multi-national Conversational AI company (Part of SunSmart Global – 15+ years in enterprise solutions) Digital Transformation of Enterprises Unique Voice-Enabled Virtual Assistants to automate business cases. Franchise spread over 6 Countries – expanding to 13+. Instant enables seamless connection with 12+ Social Media platforms. The business provides end-to-end AI Solution that are "Innovative & Intelligent" in addressing the critical business needs of Mid to Large Corporates, built using advanced technology with applications across business verticals and geographies. Herbie.AI is a Microsoft Gold Application Development Partner, and is ISO 9001:2015 Certified. AI, ML & NLP based, Multi-lingual, Omni-channel, Always-on bots with transfer to agent. Improve your customer experience with ai powered conversational chatbot solution. Provide complete customer service with Herbie AI chatbots for customer support. Lower Customer Support Costs.
    Starting Price: $1000
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    Chatfuel

    Chatfuel

    Chatfuel

    Chatfuel is the leading messaging automation solution for Facebook and Instagram. Generate more leads, personalize marketing, and automate customer service, all with Chatfuel. Get started for free today.
    Starting Price: $15.00/month
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Conversational AI Platforms Guide

Conversational AI platforms are a type of technology that enable people to communicate with computer systems in natural language. The goal of these platforms is to create an interactive dialogue between the user and the system, allowing them to get the information or service they need without having to go through complicated menus.

There are many types of conversational AI platforms available today, ranging from chatbots and virtual assistants to speech recognition systems and virtual customer care solutions. Each platform utilizes different technologies such as Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to create a more efficient and enriching experience for users.

Chatbots are automated programs that simulate conversation with users via text-based chatting or messaging. They can be used for customer service inquiries, online ordering, ecommerce transactions, recommendations and more. Most chatbot applications use NLP techniques such as intent classification, entity extraction, sentiment analysis and keyword matching to understand what the user is saying as well as determine appropriate responses. Some may even incorporate ML algorithms for further customization or optimization of their services.

Virtual assistants are AI-powered solutions that can help you manage routine tasks like scheduling appointments, setting reminders or finding answers to questions within supported applications or web services. They allow users to interact with applications using natural language while they provide personalized recommendations and insights into their activities. Virtual assistants leverage NLP technologies along with ML algorithms similar to those used in chatbots but also include other features like voice recognition capabilities that enable users to speak commands instead of typing them out.

Speech recognition systems convert spoken language into a form computers can understand so they can perform tasks based on the instructions provided by the user. These solutions often employ deep learning models trained on large datasets of recorded audio data in order make sure their performance is up-to-par with human speech understanding capabilities. Speech recognition technology is widely used across many consumer devices such as smartphones, smart TVs and home assistant products like Amazon’s Alexa or Google Home devices among others where it helps power voice commands for controlling various functions within their respective interfaces.

Finally, virtual customer care agents are intelligent conversational agents designed specifically for handling customer inquiries via text chat messages or voice conversations over phone numbers connected directly customers’ mobile phones or tablets without requiring any downloads or installations on their end - making them very convenient for users looking for quick assistance when needed. These agents usually utilize advanced machine learning models trained on large amounts of historical data from past customer conversations which make them highly efficient at providing personalized assistance tailored appropriately according to each individual's needs every time they use them.

In short, conversational AI platforms have become increasingly popular due to their ability provide intuitive interaction experiences that don't require much effort from end-users which enhances usability significantly compared traditional methods relying solely on command-line interfaces making it possible for companies deliver superior services regardless whether its managing everyday tasks simpler way getting direct feedback customers quickly show appreciation those seeking immediate response requests successfully completed first attempt itself increasing overall satisfaction levels substantially consequently positively impacting reputation businesses along profitability bottom line terms return investment creating win situation everybody involved process.

Conversational AI Platforms Features

  • Natural Language Processing (NLP): NLP is a technology that enables computers to understand and interpret natural language, allowing them to communicate with humans using language they can understand. This feature of conversational AI platforms allows the computer to recognize words, phrases and sentences from a conversation in order to identify the intent behind them.
  • Dialog Flow: Dialog Flow is a tool used by conversational AI platforms to create automated conversations. Using dialog flow, developers are able to design dialogue flows between users and bots as well as define how different messages will be handled depending on user input.
  • Machine Learning: Machine learning can be used within conversational AI platforms to improve the accuracy of generated results or responses from the bot. Through machine learning, the conversational agent can continuously refine its understanding of the input it receives and become more accurate over time.
  • Automated Speech Recognition: Automated speech recognition enables Conversational AI systems to accurately detect voice commands given by a user, making it easier for users to interact with bots without typing commands out. Usually this kind of feature requires additional training data such as audio recordings in order for it to work properly.
  • Automatic Response Generation: Automatic response generation refers to when conversational AI systems are able generate natural-sounding responses based on what was said by the user before. This helps make conversations seem more natural and human-like compared to just providing preprogrammed replies for every message sent by a user.
  • Knowledge Base: In some cases, conversational AI platforms provide access to a knowledge base containing information about the topics in which they specialize. This database can be used by the system to generate more accurate responses when it encounters certain keywords that are related to its field of expertise.
  • Entity Recognition: Entity recognition is a technology that allows conversational AI systems to recognize certain entities mentioned in the conversation such as names, places, and dates. This can help the system understand user intent more accurately and provide relevant information related to the entities mentioned.

Different Types of Conversational AI Platforms

  • Natural Language Processing (NLP): NLP conversational AI platforms provide automated, natural language understanding and interaction with users. This technology is used to process free-form user input, such as typed text or spoken words, and interpret it into structured data that can be analysed or acted upon by a system.
  • Chatbot Platforms: These platforms allow businesses to build their own chatbots in the form of virtual agents capable of carrying on conversations about specific topics and helping to automate routine customer service tasks such as providing information and answering frequently asked questions.
  • Intelligent Virtual Assistants: These platforms enable machines to learn from user interactions using sophisticated machine learning algorithms. They are powered by natural language processing capabilities and are able to understand complex queries, provide context-aware answers, and offer personalized recommendations.
  • Speech Recognition Platforms: These platforms use advanced speech recognition technologies to transcribe human speech into text in real time so that it can be understood by other applications or humans.
  • Decision Management Systems: Such systems use AI techniques such as natural language processing, machine learning, expert systems and decision trees to help organizations make more informed decisions faster. The technology helps automate decisions based on customer input or preferences along with data from multiple internal sources.
  • Robotic Process Automation (RPA): This technology automates repetitive tasks that would have otherwise been carried out manually. It uses conversational interfaces to interact with users, interpret their instructions and carry out the desired actions accordingly.
  • Contextual AI Platforms: These platforms are able to understand the context of user conversations and use this knowledge to provide more accurate results. They leverage natural language processing and machine learning to create personalized experiences tailored to the individual user.

What are the Trends Relating to Conversational AI Platforms?

  1. Increasing Availability: Conversational AI platforms are becoming increasingly available across a variety of different applications and services. This is enabling businesses to communicate with customers in a more natural, conversational way.
  2. Improved Natural Language Processing: Natural language processing (NLP) is being enhanced by the use of AI, allowing for more accurate and reliable conversations with customers.
  3. Automation of Tasks: Conversational AI can automate tasks such as customer service inquiries and product searches, leading to increased efficiency and cost savings.
  4. Increased Personalization: Depending on the platform, conversational AI can provide personalized recommendations based on customer profiles, allowing for a more personalized experience.
  5. Better Understanding of User Intent: A key benefit of conversational AI is its ability to accurately interpret user intent, allowing for more effective conversations.
  6. Multi-Channel Support: Many conversational AI platforms support multiple channels such as voice, chat, and text, providing customers with a more comprehensive approach to communication.
  7. Increased Security: By automating certain tasks, conversational AI can increase security by limiting human interaction with sensitive information.
  8. Speed: Conversational AI can provide faster and more efficient customer service, allowing customers to get the answers they need quickly.
  9. Cost Savings: By eliminating the need for human intervention in certain tasks, conversational AI can help businesses save money on labor costs.

Advantages of Using Conversational AI Platforms

  1. Automation: Conversational AI platforms allow businesses to automate mundane processes and provide quick, accurate answers to customer inquiries. This allows for efficient customer service, which can help improve customer satisfaction rates and save time for employees.
  2. Cost-Effective Solution: Utilizing conversational AI platforms is a cost-effective solution for businesses when compared to the traditional model of hiring more humans to handle tasks such as customer service operations.
  3. 24/7 Assistance: Conversational AI platforms provide customers with round-the-clock assistance, allowing them to get answers quickly from any location at any time day or night.
  4. Data Analysis: The data generated by these platforms can be used to gain insights into customer behaviors and preferences, allowing companies to offer a better experience in the long run.
  5. Personalization: By leveraging artificial intelligence technologies, these platforms can gather data on customers’ preferences and use it to customize their experiences accordingly, making conversations more natural and relevant for each individual user.
  6. Scalability & Flexibility: With conversational AI platforms, businesses are able to scale quickly according to demand without having to hire additional personnel or invest in costly hardware upgrades. They also offer flexibility in terms of customization options so that they can best fit the needs of each business’s particular environment.
  7. Accurate Responses: AI-powered conversations provide accurate, timely responses that are consistent with a company’s policies and values. This helps to create a positive customer experience and reinforce the brand's image in customers’ eyes.

How to Select the Right Conversational AI Platform

When selecting the right conversational AI platform, the key is to consider the specific needs of your company or project. Here are some tips to help you select the best platform for you:

  1. Identify Your Goals: Before you even start looking at platforms, define your goals for using a conversational AI platform - what do you need it for? For example, do you want to automate customer service inquiries, or build a chatbot? Once you have identified what you need from an AI platform, you can move onto more detailed research.
  2. Research Platforms: Once you know what your requirements are, look into various platforms and compare them side-by-side based on features they offer, ease of use and cost. Also find user reviews that provide further insight into how well each platform performs. Utilize the tools given on this page to examine conversational AI platforms in terms of price, features, integrations, user reviews, and more.
  3. Test It Out: After narrowing down your choices by researching different platforms, try out the ones that seem like good fits for free trials or demos so that you can see how they actually work in action and decide which one works best for your needs and budget.
  4. Train & Monitor: Finally don’t forget to allocate resources toward developing any necessary training data sets and monitoring performance over time to ensure accuracy and consistency with customer responses. This way, any issues can be quickly addressed as needed.

Following these steps should help you find the right conversational AI platform for your company.

Types of Users that Use Conversational AI Platforms

  • Consumer Users: Consumers who use conversational AI platforms for a variety of tasks, such as conducting transactions, obtaining customer support, and completing other daily tasks.
  • Enterprise Users: Businesses that use conversation AI platforms to automate customer service inquiries and provide more personalized experiences for their customers.
  • Educational Institutions: Schools, universities, and other educational institutions that are using conversation AI to help teach students and facilitate knowledge transfer between teachers and students.
  • Healthcare Providers: Hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare providers that are using conversation AI to help manage patient records and streamline medical operations.
  • Government Organizations: Government agencies that are leveraging the power of conversational AI to respond quickly to constituents’ inquiries or provide assistance during difficult times.
  • Developers: Software engineers who develop custom applications leveraging conversational AI capabilities.
  • Voice Assistants: Individuals who interact with platforms like Alexa or Siri on a daily basis in order to get answers or perform various tasks.
  • Marketers: Companies that use conversation AI to better understand customer behavior and increase their reach in the digital space.
  • Researchers: Scientists and academics who are leveraging conversational AI for conducting experiments or gaining insights into human behavior.

Conversational AI Platforms Cost

The cost of conversational AI platforms can vary greatly depending on the specific types of services and capabilities you are looking to incorporate. Generally speaking, they range anywhere from a few hundred dollars per month for basic enterprise-level solutions to several thousand dollars monthly for more comprehensive packages that include dedicated hosting, advanced analytics, and developer support. Furthermore, prices will also depend on your organization's size and scope as well as total estimated usage rates; in addition to the features that you have selected. For example, if you require multiple languages or localized versions of a platform, this could increase your overall costs significantly. Additionally, certain companies may offer custom pricing depending on the package you choose.

Ultimately, when making decisions about which conversational AI platform is right for your business needs it is important to consider both capability and cost. While an initial purchase price may be appealing it is important to ensure that the product offers what you need at an affordable rate so that there are no surprise costs down the line.

What Software Can Integrate with Conversational AI Platforms?

Conversational AI platforms can integrate with a wide range of software types to enhance users' experience and improve efficiency. This includes customer relationship management (CRM) software, enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, eCommerce platforms, chatbot builders, natural language processing (NLP) technologies, analytics tools for data collection and insights, content management systems for creating dynamic rich media experiences, and even business intelligence (BI) solutions. Integrating different types of software with a conversational AI platform allows the platform to provide more personalized responses tailored to the user's needs. Furthermore, it enables the platform to access crucial customer data that is stored in different applications in order to deliver an integrated solution offering better service and a more natural conversation flow.