Аннотация
The paper discusses the basic technologies of natural language recognition and the features of creating a voice assistant based on the DialogFlow cloud service. As an example, an application has been developed a voice assistant «IT-entrant», which answers entrants' questions about educational programs in the field of IT at Karaganda University named after E.A. Buketov. The article analyzes the principles of the popular voice assistants such as Google Assistant, Amazon Echo (Alexa), Microsoft Cortana, Yandex Alisa. It is revealed that the natural language recognition platform Google DialogFlow is a convenient tool for developing a dialog user interface in mobile applications. The algorithm for developing a voice assistant based on the DialogFlow cloud service is considered