Exporting Your NLU Data

NLU Data - Exports

To export your assistant's data in supported NLP/NLU formats, ensure you are on a Chat Assistant or Voice Assistant and navigate to the Share button on your canvas top bar.

Then navigate to Export As and toggle the NLU Data option and select the export that best fits your use case.

Voiceflow NLU (CSV)

With a Voiceflow NLU (Voiceflow CSV) export, you will receive your assistant's intent and utterance data in a generic CSV format. 

Tip: You have the opportunity to import specific intents or the entire model with theConfigurationsection.

With the Voiceflow CSV export file, there are two columns: Intent Name (including built-in intents and associated custom utterances) and Utterances (categorized in the intent). Any entities used within utterances are indicated as curly braces '{' , just as they would be on the Voiceflow Creator Tool.

You can use this data to unlock and allow you to get your Voiceflow NLU data in a simply formatted way for handoff to team members, or to convert it into the desired format required to import it to your NLU or another 3rd party tool.

Amazon Lex V1

Exporting assistant content into the Amazon Lex V1 format provides a master (.zip) file with each one of your assistant's intents nested in the .zip file, with each intent as its own unique (.zip) file.

You are then able to import your intents into theAmazon Lex console, under the Intents menu. You can individually import the intent files (.zip) into the Amazon Lex console and all the associated utterance data. You can also upload slot types and slot values under the Slot types menu in the Amazon Lex console.

Note:The import process with Amazon Lex only works with the V1 Console, as this is a V1 Export. Ensure you do NOT 'Switch to the new Lex V2 console' option found on the sidebar.

IBM Watson

With IBM Watson NLU/NLP exports, you receive a .json file export which contains your assistant's defined intent data.

In the Watson Assistant Dashboard, you will navigate to the Skills tab and Create skill or navigate to an already created skill. You can then navigate to the menu associated with the skill by clicking the three-dots (⋮) and select Upload.

This is where you can upload the IBM Watson export (.json) from Voiceflow directly here and overwrite your full skill. This will populate your skill on IBM Watson and directly upload your Voiceflow assistant's intent and entity data.

Note:You'll need to make sure your Watson Assistant instance is switched to the “Classic Experience” in the account menu. Ensure that the version of the Watson Assistant being used is NOT set to the “new experience”.

Salesforce Einstein

With a Salesforce Einstein export from Voiceflow, you will receive a (.csv) export of your assistant's model. This will usually be a four-column export with the Intents, Utterances and language(s) contained within your assistant.

Within Salesforce, log into Data Loader to follow the steps to import the (.csv) Voiceflow export and map the columns to the data types within Salesforce Einstein. This should be a straightforward process as the export will line up (one-to-one) and intents should map without issues. Please note that there is no import option for entities in Salesforce Einstein.

More information on the Salesforce Einstein import process is found here.

Nuance Mix

With Voiceflow's export for Nuance Mix, you will download a (.trsx.xml) copy of all your assistant's NLU model data. This file will include all intent, utterance, entity and entity value data.

In your Nuance Mix Dashboard, select an assistant you'd like to upload the data to, and then open the Import/Export tab on the right. Select the ".trsx, .xml, .zip" import option, and select your export in the file selector. This will overwrite all data on your assistant.

More information on the Nuance Mix import process can be found here.