Programming Voice Interfaces: Giving Connected Devices a Voice

Get A Step-by-step Guide For Developing Voice Interfaces For Applications And Devices Connected To The Internet Of Things. By Allowing Consumers To Use Natural Human Interactions, You Can Avoid Awkward Methods Of Input And Interactivity To Provide Them With Elevated User Experiences. This Practical Book Is Ideal For Software Engineers Who Build Applications For The Web, Smartphones, As Well As Embedded Systems That Dominate The Iot Space. Integrate Voice Interfaces With Internet Connected Devices And Sensors Learn How To Integrate With Existing Voice Interfaces Understand When To Use A Voice Over Other Natural User Interface Technologies Build A Prototype With Tools Such As Raspberry Pi, Solderless Breadboards, Jumper Cables, Sensors, Arduino, Visual Studio, And Other Tools Use Cloud Services Such As Azure And Aws To Integrate Voice With Your Existing Or New Web Service End-points Keyboards and input screens still work for mobile devices, but they just might disappear for some wearables and IoT devices. How viable is voice interface as an alternative? This O'Reilly report looks into recent advances in computing power and natural language processing (NLP), as well as the skills necessary to create intuitive, discoverable voice interfaces that users can navigate with ease. Voice interfaces have been around, at least in our imaginations, long before Captain Kirk addressed the Enterprise's shipboard computer. Author Laura Klein covers the past, present, and future of voice interfaces, and shows you how to take advantage of recent advances--and tackle existing problems--to produce a viable user experience design for voice. Learn the state of the art in NLP (Watson, Siri) and voice recognition (Android) Understand problems engineers face with discoverability and navigation Delve into different voice interface use contexts, including privacy, interactivity, and mobility (in moving vehicles) Use voice naturally with other input methods, such as swiping, tapping, gestures, and physical buttons Make users feel secure, let them easily recover from mistakes, and help them make voice input a habit Learn how voice input is being used with IoT devices