![]() Skype offers bots like Ava Zoom, Hello Stranger 2, and Mitsuku. ![]() Microsoft currently features bots like MurphyBot, Summarize, and Kik’s Vision Bot in its Bot Directory. More than 20,000 developers signed up to use the Microsoft Bot Framework in its first month, and the numbers are now more than 30,000 overall, a company spokesperson told VentureBeat in an email. The news comes a week after Facebook announced several feature updates for Messenger chatbots, including the ability for users to rate chatbots. Microsoft currently features bots like MurphyBot, Summarize, and Kik’s Vision Bot in its Bot Directory. The ability to create bots for Kik and Facebook Messenger was added after the framework was announced at Build, Microsoft’s annual developer conference. The Microsoft Bot Framework allows developers to make bots for Skype, Kik, Slack, Office 365 mail, Facebook Messenger, SMS, and Telegram. Two New Skype Bots Microsoft announced two new Skype Bots for Mac & Web Page Murphy & Summarize Murphy: a Bot to find and create images for when questions can’t be answered by words alone Summarize: a Bot designed to give an overview of a web page if you don’t have time to read the whole thing. These updates are some of the largest changes to Skype bots since the Microsoft Bot Framework was announced in March. ![]() “Using the Microsoft Bot Framework you can publish your bot to Skype, and submit for promotion in the Skype and Microsoft bot directories, as well as get access to great bot building tools,” Rincon wrote. No time to read an entire web page Just send a link to the Summarize bot to get an overview of the main points. Skypes primary intent with bots is to let users chat and interact with brands and services, letting them shop for clothes, play games, or make travel plans just by talking to their computer or. Meanwhile, Microsoft has chosen to merge the Skype Bot Platform and the Microsoft Bot Framework. And Skype can now be used for third-party authentication for other applications, and Microsoft also now has a preview of an integration of Bing services for detecting entities and intents, “so that natural language understanding is built right into Skype Bots - an industry first,” Skype group program manager Lilian Rincon wrote in a blog post. Following are some of useful bots: Caption Bot - Describe received image Summarize Bot - Extract summary information of the pages. Microsoft announced on its official Skype blog that preview Skype Bots are now available on two more platforms: Mac and Web.
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