Slots

As you write patterns for user commands, you can add slots to these commands. Slots are essentially ‘variables’ in user’s phrases: they represent variable pieces of information you expect to occur in the user’s input.

Slots allows Alan AI to identify and retrieve important facts from the user’s speech. By having this data, the AI assistant can respond to the user’s request appropriately. For example, when building a flight booking AI assistant, it needs to capture the departure and destination, departure date, number of passengers and so on.

Alan AI allows using the following slot types:

• Static slots to capture static values

• Regex slots to capture any combination of numbers and letters