The invention provides an intelligent response method, which comprises the following steps that: after a consultation question is preprocessed, constructing an inverted index for a question and answerknowledge base; through an inverted index query way, inquiring a candidate question set related to the consultation question from the question and answer knowledge base; aiming at each candidate question in the candidate question set; independently calculating a question similarity between the consultation question and the candidate question, wherein the question similarity is obtained through the linear weighting of a text similarity, a semantic similarity, a theme similarity and a syntax similarity between the consultation question and the corresponding candidate question; and finally, selecting a candidate question corresponding to the highest question similarity obtained by calculation, and inquiring the associated answer of the selected candidate question in the question and answer knowledge base as a target answer to be output. The invention also provides an electronic device and a storage medium. By use of the intelligent response method, the accuracy and the response efficiency of intelligent response can be improved, and service quality is improved.