Alexa and Google Home support

[pkucoffee]

Does Power Virtual Agents have plan to support Alexa and Google Home?

Is there any place I can vote for this feature?

Thanks 

[renatoromao]

Hi @pkucoffee ,

Not yet, the idea is to talk with the bot using text, images or something like that. 

But, I created two ideas:

Support voice messages - https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Power-Apps-Ideas/Support-voice-and-musics-messages-Power-Virtual...

Support Alexa and Google Home like a channel - https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Power-Apps-Ideas/Support-Alexa-and-Google-Home-like-a-channel-Po...

[Ashish2012]

Hi,
I would say that the future of Power Virtual Agent. As, Renato already submitted ideas, please vote on the above link.

https://voicebot.ai/2019/11/07/microsoft-power-virtual-agents-is-bot-building-for-anyone-that-is-any...

[rggammon]

If you are a developer, check out -

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-virtual-agents/publication-connect-bot-to-azure-bot-service-c...

... and ...

https://github.com/BotBuilderCommunity/botbuilder-community-dotnet

It should be possible to get this scenario working by loading the bot builder community adapter into the relay bot.

[ArafatTehsin]

That's right! Bot Builder Community has the adapters which are also under the process of re-writing but if you have any specific requirement, please open up the GitHub issue there and we will try to address it as much we can. 

[renatoromao]

Hi @pkucoffee ,

This feature is planned to deliver in Public preview on Oct 2020.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform-release-plan/2020wave2/power-virtual-agents/deploy-p...

[NicholasPlant]

What happened to PSTN. This was supposed to preview in July and GA in September, then it was "moved to the next wave" in the release notes - i.e. to 2020 Wave 2 but there is no sign of PSTN connectivity in the wave 2 release notes.  

[FranciscoOrozco]

@renatoromao 

Hi Renato, we may want to check out this thread...

-Enjoy...

Note: Google home+Alexa may not quite have support plans yet....  however we may want to alternative take a look at AI power bots.

[renatoromao]

Yes @FranciscoOrozco ,

Maybe Covid-19 affects directly Planned features.

I think that will available to deploy Alexa skills on the next months.