Re:Tips for Building Voice User Interfaces
by Nextgrid on Friday January 17, 2020 @01:47PM
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Most people barely know how to use basic features of their tools and can't be bothered to spend 30 minutes exploring them, do you really expect them to spend time researching & testing custom commands to improve their voice assistants?
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Re:Tips for Building Voice User Interfaces
by rkagerer on Friday January 17, 2020 @08:40PM
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You raise a great point. I don't expect most people to. But I know some power users who would. And I suspect a huge library of human-crafted commands would be more useful than (or at least compliment) a mediocre AI.
Back before there were better alternatives, I reverse engineered the protocol for a common Wifi RGB LED controller and glued it to the Alexa Skills API. Amazon has a great developer tool for training your own verbs and syntax. Unfortunately, all your vocabulary needs to be prefixed. So instead of saying "Turn my yard light red", I had to say "Tell Sparky to turn my yard light red".