title: Amazon Lex compared to Botpress
body: <p>Maybe I'm just taken up by pretty web sites like Botpress.io, but I have a question about bot building platforms.  I've started using Amazon Lex for some bot building and I've since come across Botpress.  Are these essentially competing products?  At face value the answer seems to be yes, but I struggle to understand how Botpress has natural language processing that can be competitive with the big guys like Amazon and Google.</p>
  
  <p>One of the coolest things that Lex does for me is auto translates similar strings of text into utterances for processing.  I'm sure Botpress can do this too in a simplistic way, but would the natural language processing of Lex or Google Assistant be much more powerful?</p>
  
  <p>In this situation why would anybody ever use something like Botpress knowing that the natural language capabilities are much better on other services?</p>
  
  <p>Hope somebody can help me.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks,
  L</p>