Snips NLU is an Open Source, Private by Design alternative to Dialogflow, Amazon Lex, and other NLU…

Integrating a voice or chatbot interface into a product used to require a Natural Language Understanding (NLU) cloud service. Today, we are open sourcing Snips NLU, a Private by Design, GDPR compliant NLU engine. It can run on the Edge or on a server, with minimal footprint, while performing as good or better than cloud solutions. From the 60 million messages Facebook bots process every day, to the tens of millions of users now talking to an Alexa or Google-powered device, natural language has become a preferred mode of interaction between people and machines. A new skill is being added to the Amazon Alexa skill store every 90 minutes, making voice assistants grow faster than smartphone app stores did.