Want to know how to talk to mobile apps?
Spokestack Studio will show you voice UX examples to inspire you to build your own fast, private, and independent voice assistant.
Today we are releasing Spokestack Studio for iOS. If you want to get some ideas for the voice features you can add to your mobile app, Spokestack Studio is a great place to start.
Spokestack studio showcases each voice UX we enable as well as a few use cases. Here’s a walkthrough of what’s in this first release:
Wakeword: See how you can use a wakeword to engage listening mode within your app. Wakewords come in handy if you need to be...handsfree. Great for apps where users may want to access content or service in a mobile app while driving or exercising.
Speech Recognition: A basic "touch to talk" demo. We make working with Apple’s “Speech Recognition” easy. More importantly, using Spokestack’s iOS Speech Pipeline means you can use our built-in speech processors for Voice Activity Detection (VAD), wakeword activation, and Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). It also sets you up to easily work across Android and Web VUX as well.
Voice Transfer: With this demo, we combine two important parts of natural language processing: automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech (TTS). Say something, then we say it back to you with one of our Spokestack TTS library voices.
Intent Understanding: This tutorial lets you switch between a few pre-trained NLU models like "camera" and "fitness trainer" to show you how it responds to spoken intents. This demo is for developers to see how NLU can work with a mobile app. These are not full demos (that’s below). It should be noted, these NLU models are not in the cloud. They are on-device so they are more performant and private than cloud NLU services.
Voice App: This is where we let you try "smart speaker" style mobile apps. Our first example is from the "Build An Alexa How-To Skill" tutorial, which is a Minecraft Helper Q&A service. We will be adding more examples here like camera, fitness trainer, etc. later. Later this week, we will be posting the tutorials and code from these demos.
Big thanks to Daniel for getting Studio built! This is an early release and we look forward to any feedback or ideas that could best serve as an example for mobile developers.
We updated the website
In anticipation of some new features and services, we have freshened up our website. In addition to new features and services, we will be adding more tutorials and community support features to the site so we can best help developers through their independent voice assistant journey. Big thanks to Elizabeth and Timmy for making it look so great!
More tips for voice app testing
Finally, Elizabeth has another installment on how to research and design for your independent voice assistant. It's called "Test your voice assistant with real people", please check it out!
We are going to announce some new features and a contest judged by some of the best people in the industry later this week. Be sure to follow us on Twitter @spokestack for these and other announcements as they happen.
Have a great week! Let's all do everything we can to make the world a better, kinder, fairer place.
Thanks,
Mike