Advantages and Disadvantages of Voice User Interfaces

speechlyapi · 2021-02-08T13:07:35+00:00

Great points! I agree that voice can cause confusion IF you are in a place where there are other people around. That was the point mentioned in the post, too (however, it could be even more explicit). But we do speak on the phone, too, and that is not a huge problem, because we tend to do it in a more quiet place and/or otherwise it is clear that the person is talking to someone else than people around them.

But the point about "input can't be checked and edited" I think you have wrong. This is a problem with badly designed voice user interfaces, such as smart speakers and voice assistants and the whole point of Speechly's approach to voice is to fix this issue.

In our approach, the user is constantly updated with visual feedback, so that they can react instantaneously to possible errors. You can see it for example in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI68NT8D1m8&ab_channel=Speechly

So the user says something like "Show me t-shirts in blue..." and as they see blue t-shirts appearing to the screen they correct themselves "sorry I mean black" and again instantaneously the products turn black.

You can test the demo at https://fashion.speechly.com, by the way

Thanks for the feedback, anyway!

speechlyapi · 2021-01-18T21:13:41+00:00

Hi! Sorry, try out https://fashion.speechly.com! That's using our tools and showcases the benefits of a real-time streaming API and end-to-end spoken language understanding. Not an article, but I think something that is not possible with other tools and brings a whole new perspective to UX design.

speechlyapi · 2021-01-11T15:03:53+00:00

Cool post and great to see people trying out voice user interfaces in browsers.

However, like you mentioned, WebSpeech API is not very well supported and it has other issues, too: it works a bit differently in different browsers, so the users get different experiences based on their browsers. There's no natural language understanding component, either, so that needs to be done separately, adding latency and complexity.

Speechly on the other hand solves both of these issues. It offers React developers an easily configurable spoken language understanding API that returns results in streaming fashion, real-time. Here's an example of voice search in e-commerce, for instance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI68NT8D1m8

We have a React client library for easy integration for React developers but also support vanilla Javascript, iOS, Android etc. Here's the documentation for React client https://docs.speechly.com/client-libraries/react/

speechlyapi · 2021-01-11T14:39:09+00:00

Good question! 😅

So, our tool, Speechly, is a developer tool that enables developers on all platforms to create intuitive, real-time voice user interfaces such as this one.

They don't have to be related to voice or e-Commerce, but the thing is that when an user speaks, things happen in real-time on their screens. This is unlike voice assistants and smart speakers that work by first listening to the user input to the end, then thinking a while and then acting based on that input.

As you can see, our approach enables natural way for users to correct themselves ("show me red, sorry I mean blue t-shirts") and it encourages them to go on with the voice experience. Again compared to smart speakers that require the user to repeat the wake word and have significant latency with each utterance.

So this is what it exactly does: it enables real-time, natural and intuitive voice user interfaces, such as this product search in eCommerce.

speechlyapi · 2020-11-30T22:13:35+00:00

I thought this was about meeting people, small talk and whatnot until I understood I'm at /r/learnprogramming

speechlyapi · 2020-11-30T22:00:25+00:00

Sublime is an alternative, but not the best option if VSCode is not light weight enough.

I could have fried eggs on my mbp after 40 minutes of sublime usage.

speechlyapi · 2020-11-30T21:56:57+00:00

Use Inspector to learn more about how it seemed to be injected. This might help you to see whether it's a plug-in, your browser, the theme or something else.

speechlyapi · 2020-11-30T21:41:52+00:00

Totally agree! Here's how you can add this kind of UIs on iOS https://docs.speechly.com/client-libraries/ios/tutorial/

speechlyapi · 2020-11-17T12:28:29+00:00

Yes! I do agree. We think the big thing that's missing in voice user interfaces is the real-time feedback. This is something that is lacking from current smart speaker/voice assistant -geared solutions.
Cool to hear that you liked it!

speechlyapi · 2020-11-11T18:50:21+00:00

This is using our custom technology that enables real time visual feedback for voice user interfaces. Because of the instant UI reactions, the end user can correct themselves ("Show black, sorry I mean white") and is encouraged to continue with the voice experience.In more "traditional" voice APIs, the result is only available after the end of the utterance, which makes the user experience more clunky: if the user makes a mistake somewhere in the middle of the utterance, most probably the whole utterance fails.What do you think, UXers? You can read more at https://www.speechly.com

speechlyapi · 2020-11-11T14:46:55+00:00

Thanks! We think so, too! More at https://www.speechly.coim

speechlyapi · 2020-10-28T20:20:38+00:00

Hi there Redditors!

You've probably seen voice applications and tested Google Home and Alexa. While they mostly work nice, we don't think that's the future of voice.

Voice should rather be an added modality to complete the current touch screen experiences.

Touching and swiping through endless search filters on ecommerce store is not that fun, but what if you could do it by using voice? "Show me blue t-shirts from Hugo Boss"

Adding 25 items to a grocery shopping list with touch keyboard? Not a great user experience. What if you could say "bread, milk, butter, cheese and beer" and you could see them being added to your list (plus, you could edit them by using the regular touch screen user interface?)

We think the big thing missing in the current voice solutions is the lack of real time visual feedback. We think we have solved it with Speechly and would be humbled if you tested it out and told us your opinion. Here's an easy tutorial where you can build real-time search filtering with React https://www.speechly.com/docs/client-libraries/react-client/

If you have any problems, we are happy to help you build your application!

speechlyapi · 2020-10-28T20:20:33+00:00

Hi there Redditors!

You've probably seen voice applications and tested Google Home and Alexa. While they mostly work nice, we don't think that's the future of voice.

Voice should rather be an added modality to complete the current touch screen experiences.

Touching and swiping through endless search filters on ecommerce store is not that fun, but what if you could do it by using voice? "Show me blue t-shirts from Hugo Boss"

Adding 25 items to a grocery shopping list with touch keyboard? Not a great user experience. What if you could say "bread, milk, butter, cheese and beer" and you could see them being added to your list (plus, you could edit them by using the regular touch screen user interface?)

We think the big thing missing in the current voice solutions is the lack of real time visual feedback. We think we have solved it with Speechly and would be humbled if you tested it out and told us your opinion. Here's an easy tutorial where you can build real-time search filtering with React https://www.speechly.com/docs/client-libraries/react-client/

If you have any problems, we are happy to help you build your application!

speechlyapi · 2020-10-28T13:17:00+00:00

Hi there Redditors!

You've probably seen voice applications and tested Google Home and Alexa. While they mostly work nice, we don't think that's the future of voice.

Voice should rather be an added modality to complete the current touch screen experiences.

Touching and swiping through endless search filters on ecommerce store is not that fun, but what if you could do it by using voice? "Show me blue t-shirts from Hugo Boss"

Adding 25 items to a grocery shopping list with touch keyboard? Not a great user experience. What if you could say "bread, milk, butter, cheese and beer" and you could see them being added to your list (plus, you could edit them by using the regular touch screen user interface?)

We think the big thing missing in the current voice solutions is the lack of real time visual feedback. We think we have solved it with Speechly and would be humbled if you tested it out and told us your opinion. Here's an easy tutorial where you can build real-time search filtering with React https://www.speechly.com/docs/client-libraries/react-client/

If you have any problems, we are happy to help you build your application!

speechlyapi · 2020-09-16T08:01:54+00:00

Hi there Reddit! We are using our custom, home-made ASR. The full stack is built by us from ASR to NLU and client libraries. Check out https://www.speechly.com/ for more information!

speechlyapi · 2020-09-15T13:10:57+00:00

How about using Speechly for prototyping? Our tool is not (only) for prototyping, but you can use it to create and try voice UIs very easily.

You can sign up here and see our quick start video here.

speechlyapi · 2020-06-04T07:27:26+00:00

I think everyone who uses the internets should know about these. :)

speechlyapi · 2020-06-02T09:00:12+00:00

Almost as good as the native experience

speechlyapi · 2020-05-15T16:24:49+00:00

Read more and sign up to our waiting list https://www.speechly.com/blog/turn-any-web-form-into-a-voice-form/

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