Chapter 1 Voice-first development components

 

Chapter 1 from Voice UI Systems by Ann Thymé-Gobbel and Charles Jankowski

This chapter covers

  • Definitions of voice-first and conversational voice
  • Common claims and beliefs of voice and the reality behind each
  • The technology and architecture of voice-first system components
  • The phases of voice-first development
  • The benefits of understanding all aspects of voice-first development

Perhaps you've experienced it already: you build a website or an app, something you think is great, but nobody ends up using it. You've used apps you didn't like for some reason and probably thought, "I could’ve done this better." And here’s your chance to create something with a promising cool new technology—an application that users can talk to and that responds mainly with voice.

1.1 Voice-first, voice-only, and conversational everything

1.2 Introduction to voice technology components

1.2.1 Speech to text

1.2.2 Natural language understanding

1.2.3 Dialog management

1.2.4 Natural language generation

1.2.5 Text to speech

1.3 Meet the phases of voice-first development

1.3.1 Plan

1.3.2 Design

1.3.3 Build

1.3.4 Test

1.3.5 Deploy & Assess

1.3.6 Iterate

1.4 Hope is not a strategy—but to plan & execute is

1.5 What next?

1.6 Summary