Mastering Voice Interfaces: Creating Great Voice Apps for Real Users

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A. Thymé-Gobbel, C. JankowskiMastering Voice Interfaceshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7005-9_1

1. Say Hello to Voice Systems

Ann Thymé-Gobbel¹   and Charles Jankowski²

(1)

Brisbane, CA, USA

(2)

Fremont, CA, USA

 

You’ve probably experienced it: you use an app and think, I could’ve done this better. Now here’s your chance to create something with a promising cool new technology—an application that users can talk to and that responds with voice.

You’ve heard that practically everyone uses voice technology so you’d better hurry or you’ll be left behind. Your newsfeed reports on the explosive growth: millions of voice devices in everyone’s home and thousands of ...