AVAILABLE NOW Voice UX Design – Tackling the Discoverability Issue We just released our latest book on Voice Assistants — Voice UX Design: Tackling the Discoverability Issue — which focuses on what we as developers can do to improve on…
AVAILABLE NOW Voice UX Design – Tackling the Discoverability Issue We just released our latest book on Voice Assistants — Voice UX Design: Tackling the Discoverability Issue — which focuses on what we as developers can do to improve on…
Will Improvements in Voice Technology Eliminate the Need for Voice UX Design? With our book Voice UX Design, we are aiming to avoid the standard, party-line approach to usability in Voice, which — frankly speaking — doesn’t work. Software programmers…
Is Voice for Hard-core Gamers? As developer’s we’re always questioning what sort of applications are worth the time investment. Our first aim is to maximize user engagement which corresponds with high levels of usage and monetization. At a recent game…
VOICE Conference Berlin 2019 TsaTsaTzu’s own Joseph Jaquinta and Stacy Colella have been invited to speak again at the fantastic VOICE Conference 2019 in Berlin at the Expo center on December 9-11. They will be following up last year’s well-received…
Anyone Can Do Simple Voice Games We have always preferred to focus on building intensive gaming experience that are … hard to pull off. We have always bucked the industry trends in this regard. For example, we have a very…
Why User Retention is Hard for Voice Applications We’ve all been there. Is there anything more soul destroying to see a vibrant and exciting base of users slowly slip away through your fingers? It all starts well. You set up…
StarTrader Teaser Drops StarLanes – the popular, award-winning audio application for Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant – is still one of the most addictive voice experiences three years after launch. Now there is a sequel, StarTrader, a gift for StarLanes…
Google Announces On-Demand Speech Processing We’ve often talked about the current limits of voice recognition (VR) software. With both Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant, we’ve reported VR error rates of around 10%. Several factors which influence this number, such as…
Voice Assistants & Privacy Concerns? Amazon has an on-going PR problem around Alexa. Some of it is merited as a software glitch sent a recorded transcript of a private conversation to a third party. Some of it is not. Today…
Inventing the Voice Assistant User Interface (Part 2) Voice Assistant (VA) developers are increasingly under pressure to create “naturalistic voice experiences” despite the current limitations of Voice Recognition (VR) and Voice Parsing (VP) technology. Instead we as developers have to…