MindMeld (Cisco) — Conversational AI Platform for Deep-Domain Voice Interfaces and Chatbots
MindMeld is a conversational AI platform designed to build advanced voice and text agents for specialized domains. It provides end-to-end capabilities to design, train, and deploy chatbots and voice assistants that handle complex, domain-specific interactions across multiple channels.
Key Use Cases / Blueprints
MindMeld ships blueprints to accelerate development for common scenarios:
- Food Ordering: Build conversational apps that let users order food or drinks for delivery from nearby restaurants.
- Video Discovery: Create experiences to browse and find movies and TV shows from a large content catalog.
- Home Assistant: Develop smart home assistants to control devices and appliances.
You can view and customize these blueprints to fit your specific domain and data.
How It Works
- Design intents, entities, and dialogue flows tailored to a deep-domain use case.
- Train natural language understanding (NLU) models to interpret user input and map to actions.
- Implement business logic and integrations (e.g., ordering systems, content catalogs, device control).
- Deploy across voice and chat channels with consistent behavior and scalable performance.
- Leverage pre-built blueprints as starting points and extend them to your needs.
Getting Started
- Explore the blueprints to model typical conversations for your domain.
- Use MindMeld’s tooling to author intents, entities, and dialogue policies.
- Connect to external services (order systems, catalogs, smart devices) to fulfill user requests.
- Iterate with real user data to improve NLU and dialogue management.
Company and Community
- Numerous companies have used MindMeld for various AI-powered conversational solutions.
- The platform has an active set of developer stories and resources illustrating practical implementations across industries.
Resources
- Documentation and blog content covering deep-domain conversational AI concepts
- Developer stories and case studies highlighting real-world usage
- Get started guides and integration examples
Core Features
- Deep-domain conversational AI platform for voice and text
- Domain-specific NLU, dialogue management, and fulfillment
- Ready-made blueprints for Food Ordering, Video Discovery, and Home Assistant
- Channel-agnostic deployment (voice assistants and chatbots)
- Extensible integrations with external systems and devices
- Tools for authoring intents, entities, and dialogue policies
- Scalable architecture suitable for enterprise use
- Access to developer resources, documentation, and community stories