This is different from my usual blog posts but I have been sitting on this for some time. I have been working with Chatbots for about 1 year now. Been on and off various engagements. So, I wrote something to make it a a bit clearer for those wanting to develop it and those wanting to know about it. Chatbots are very trendy these days and thought I would write up some personal learnings I have made. Chatbots have existed for many years but the technology has been democratised like many things in Azure. You can literally build a bot for free of charge (of course you have to invest a bit of your…

This post is a continuation from the last blog post. We will explore what it takes to build and deploy your bot. In the Azure Portal , create a new “Web App Bot” by searching for “bot”. Select Web App Bot and follow the wizard. Enter the required details. Make sure to change the pricing tier to the free one, if you are experimenting. It is a good idea to select your template here. There are various templates available. Question and Answer one is a good template for fast set up of your QnA maker. If you are intending to use LUIS, select the Language understanding template. It will create LUIS project…