The Amazon Echo has been a surprise hit in the US, with Google Home close behind, Apple firmly rumoured to have something in skunkworks development. Facebooks slightly different spin is text processing and AI.
Yet no-one is doing anything interesting in Australia with Speech UI/UX (Apart from those IVR phone systems, which is my background I begrudgingly admit) Speech in contexts such as Home, Car and other 'assistant' paradigms looks pretty likely to be a boom industry over the next decade. What is usually missing is proper, experienced UX design. Many implementations in Speech today are the HTML equivalent of flashing pink text - Seemed like a good idea to some developer at the time. Did anyone see 'Honey' on The Block TV show? - "Honey, kids, mode sunset" - Or something like that. Good grief. Flashing pink text. Proper design would see the design support, or better yet *encourage*: "Honey, set the kids room for sunset". Anyone out there in Silicon Beach land want to jump on this wave with me and explore opportunities in *compelling* Speech interfaces? -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Vist http://siliconbeachaustralia.org for more Forum rules 1) No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. 2) No jobs postings. You can use http://siliconbeachaustralia.org/jobs To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Silicon Beach Australia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
