The base of Amazon Echo, the smart speaker home of voice agent Alexa
In September of last year, PullString announced its Author platform for developing text-based chatbots.
A few months after the launch, the firm added the ability to create Skills — that is, conversational third-party applications — for Amazon’s Alexa voice agent.
This week, PullString is launching a new platform called Converse that is solely focused on letting non-technical users create voice-based Skills.
The company says this is the first end-to-end platform for non-technical users to create conversational interactions for Alexa. Converse is also PullString’s first self-service, cloud-based platform, as Author — which has now been discontinued — was desktop-based and required some professional services.
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Barry Levine covers marketing technology for Third Door Media. Previously, he covered this space as a Senior Writer for VentureBeat, and he has written about these and other tech subjects for such publications as CMSWire and NewsFactor. He founded and led the web site/unit at PBS station Thirteen/WNET; worked as an online Senior Producer/writer for Viacom; created a successful interactive game, PLAY IT BY EAR: The First CD Game; founded and led an independent film showcase, CENTER SCREEN, based at Harvard and M.I.T.; and served over five years as a consultant to the M.I.T. Media Lab. You can find him at LinkedIn, and on Twitter at xBarryLevine.