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Voice Applications for Alexa and Google Assistant
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Voice Applications for Alexa and Google Assistant

by Dustin Coates
July 2019
Intermediate to advanced
264 pages
7h 33m
English
Manning Publications
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3 Designing a voice user interface

This chapter covers

  • Understanding the voice user interface
  • Seeing how a VUI differs from graphical user interfaces
  • Learning how to use Grice’s maxims to shape a VUI

The early use of each new technology tends to mimic older mediums. Early radio programs were like plays you could listen to at home. Early websites tried to take cues from the computer desktop, which itself was based on the physical desktop. This stage is never the pinnacle of the platform. It’s the same with voice first. Early efforts on voice first may take guidance from the web, but learning how voice user interface (VUI) best practices are different will help drive the conversation forward.

A VUI is the combination of the words, the back-and-forth, ...

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