Tutorials
Take a look at our collection of how-to's, best practices, videos and more in the tutorials category of our blog.
October 4th, 2021
Explore Rasa APIs with Postman
Vincent Warmerdam
To help developers interact with our Rasa APIs we've recently created a workspace on Postman that comes with all of our API endpoints pre-filled. In this blog post, we'll explain what this will enable you to do.
September 29th, 2021
Announcing the Rasa Learning Center
Vincent Warmerdam
We are extremely excited to announce the Rasa Learning Center. The Rasa Learning Center is the place to learn anything related to Rasa, as well as topics in Machine Learning and NLP. It hosts courses with step-by-step videos lessons together with code-snippets that makes it easy for anyone to learn Conversational AI at their own pace for free.
September 13th, 2021
Announcing the "Understanding Rasa Deployments" Course
Vincent Warmerdam
We are *very* excited to announce our brand new course on "Understanding Rasa Deployments". It’s being made available on Youtube as a 8-episode series and you’ll see new episodes appear on Youtube as of today.
August 12th, 2021
Non-English Tools for Rasa NLU
Vincent Warmerdam
The Rasa community spans the globe, so we often get questions on optimising a Rasa pipeline for a wide variety of languages. Rasa is…
August 5th, 2021
Custom Rasa NLU Docker Containers
Vincent Warmerdam
Detecting a frequently asked question is useful for a virtual assistant, but it can also be useful as an API for customer service.
August 2nd, 2021
Prioritise Labelling with the UnexpecTEDIntentPolicy
Vincent Warmerdam
In this blogpost we introduce the UnexpecTEDIntentPolicy, which was released as part of Rasa 2.8. This policy makes it easy to find unexpected intents in a conversation, which help prioritise which conversations to label first.
July 30th, 2021
Announcing the Conversational AI with Rasa series
Justina Petraitytė
We are extremely excited to announce our brand new series on our Rasa Youtube channel - Conversational AI with Rasa. It’s a 14-episode series focused on developing AI assistants with Rasa Open Source (version 2.x and later).
July 22nd, 2021
Conditional Response Variations: Technical Blog
Christopher Kedzie
Anca Lita
As part of the Rasa Open Source 2.6 release, we introduced a new feature called conditional response variations which allows slot-values to determine when a particular response variation is used by your bot.
June 21st, 2021
Custom SpaCy 3.0 models in Rasa
Vincent Warmerdam
In this guide, we're going to bootstrap a spaCy 3.0 project and show you how you can integrate it with Rasa. We will train an entity detector and demonstrate how to use the new spaCy projects feature.
June 9th, 2021
Getting Started with the Twilio Voice Connector for Rasa
Cooper Lower
We are absolutely thrilled to announce our new Twilio Voice Connector available in Rasa Open Source 2.6! With the new connector, users have the ability to interact with your Rasa virtual assistant using the power of voice.
May 12th, 2021
Introducing Rasalit: Streamlit Apps to Explore Rasa Models
Vincent Warmerdam
Introducing Rasalit! It's a collection of streamlit apps that make it easier to explore your trained Rasa models.
April 21st, 2021
Rasa Open Source Now Supports spaCy 3.0
Vincent Warmerdam
In February this year, spaCy 3.0 was released. This was a major release with many new features, including new pre-trained models. Rasa Open Source 2.5 now includes support for this new version of spaCy, which brings many new features to the Rasa community.
April 12th, 2021
The Five Step Journey to Becoming a Rasa Developer
Rachael Tatman
In this post, we’ll walk you through the major landmarks that most Rasa developers will run into in their developer journey and suggest some materials that you might find helpful when you reach that step yourself.
April 7th, 2021
Deploy Custom Actions to Rasa X Using Gitlab DevOps Platform
Vincent Warmerdam
Virtual assistants do more than just carry on conversations. They can send emails, make updates to a calendar, or call an API endpoint.…
March 29th, 2021
Intents & Entities: Understanding the Rasa NLU Pipeline
Vincent Warmerdam
In a Rasa project, the NLU pipeline defines the processing steps that convert unstructured user messages into intents and entities. It…