Amazon Skills for Alexa, Google Actions for Home – Should your company build a conversational voice interface for one of these systems, and if so, how? What are the differences between a voice user interface and other types of UIs? What types of skills does a VUI designer need? What are some best practices for these VUIs? This session will explore all these questions and more. You’ll walk away with answers to the questions “If, Why, and How” you might choose to explore this interesting new area of design.
“Speech to Text” ?
Spoken Language – Machine readable format
Not necessarily tied to speech recognition
Also called voiceprints, biometrics, voice authentication, etc.
Not going to discuss this one in a lot of detail today but it’s important that you understand the difference between these technologies.
Recognizes a person, not necessarily what they are saying.
You can have ASR without Voice Verification
And vice versa
Human voice talent
Hundreds of hours of recording
Digitized
Phonemes:
Concatenated speech synthesis
Alexa, Ask Capitol One What’s my current credit card balance?
What do you need it for?
What kind of device will you be running it on?
Connectivity?
Can you use cloud based ASR?
How much control do you need over the application / user interface?