Posts Tagged ‘Voice User Interface Design’
Project Voice Takeaways: Why Our CTO Thinks Samsung Bixby Could Be The Next Big Voice Platform
LISTEN READ I’ve known our CTO Joe Wallace since 2011. He’s one of the most thoughtful people I’ve ever worked with. NOT “touchy feely” thoughtful. Thoughtful about his work. Period. He – and I mean this in a complimentary way – is NOT easily impressed. And as he admits in this wonderfully done podcast interview…
Read MoreHow To Get Found On Alexa: Exclusive Interview With Amazon Alexa Evangelist Jeff Blankenburg
WATCH LISTEN READ Getting found on Alexa (let’s call it “SAO” – Search Alexa Optimization) – At Project Voice, I asked Amazon Alexa’s Jeff Blankenburg how businesses can get found on Alexa. While waking Alexa with a phrase like “Alexa, how do I make a Jack-o-lantern” I’ve noticed more frequently over the last 6 months…
Read MoreHow To Teach AI And Proper Voice Application Design (with David Code of LinkedIn)
WATCH LISTEN READ David Code has an interesting story. He got a job at LinkedIn teaching AI to people with a non-STEM background. He got fed up trying to learn AI from AI experts who couldn’t teach well, and decided to write a 140-page textbook and post it to Reddit. Well, LinkedIn found him and…
Read MoreWould You Marry Amazon Alexa? Interview with Project Voice Founder Bradley Metrock
WATCH LISTEN READ Those of us building Voice Apps for Alexa and Google Assistant have naturally become evangelists and power users of the voice assistants and smart speakers. Case in point, I don’t know anybody who knows more about How To Use Alexa than creator of Project Voice and CEO of Score Publishing, Bradley Metrock.…
Read MoreMust Read: What Will Happen In Voice In 2020
READ 2020 is going to be a HUGE year for Voice. Specifically, 2020 is going to be the year that most businesses start to get entry-level Voice Apps, just like they started getting websites in the early 2000s. SMBs Will Get A Voice What does this mean? It means that your local HVAC repair business,…
Read MoreWhat Are The Best Tools Available To Make Your Own Voice Apps? (Alexa Skills and Google Actions)
WATCH LISTEN READ The same way that our lives all improved as consumers and eventually as marketers and business owners in 2008-2010 with the advent of the iPhone and other smartphones, 2020 will be the year and certainly mark the beginning of the decade in which all of our lives improved due to Voice technology,…
Read MoreHow To Find Google Actions On Google Assistant: Data Driven Daily Tip 325
WATCH LISTEN READ I’ve built several Google Actions and Alexa Skills recently, and while Alexa seems to be pretty straightforward in terms of finding and adding Skills to your devices via the Alexa app / Skill store, the Google Home situation with Google Assistant isn’t as straightforward. To be honest, there still appears to be…
Read MoreWhy The Next Generation Will Expect Businesses To Have Alexa Skills
WATCH LISTEN READ Alexa Skills and Google Actions are voice applications built on top of Alexa and Google Home / Google Assistant. The next generation will expect businesses to have Alexa Skills. Watch this video or keep reading to find out why. You can build these apps for just about anything. For example, in this…
Read MoreHave You Ever Listened To A Website In Your Car?
WATCH LISTEN READ Seems like a weird concept, right? But honestly, the data says that we’re only about 1-2 years away from people expecting to be able to listen to content from websites on Alexa while driving. This means, Alexa Skills Are The New Websites. Today, Data Driven Design is building Voice Based versions of…
Read MoreA Simple Lesson Learned In Voice User Interface Design – Data Driven Daily Tip 320
WATCH LISTEN READ Voice User Interface Design is so new. It’s so hard to think through every scenario of what a user might want to say to Alexa or Google Home, which is why this particular use case I think is a good one to share with you all. I recently built an Alexa Skill…
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