Show notes
We have high expectations for voice interfaces, after all we’ve been talking since birth. It’s natural and nuanced. Ben Sauer joins us to help us navigate the complex world of designing for voice.
Multimodal – listening and replying, designing voice first, touch free design, error handling, prototyping voice interfaces – we cover a great deal in this episode. There’s even a mention of fermented Swedish herring.
(Listening time: 31 minutes, transcript)
Episode 207: Designing voice interfaces with @bensauer https://t.co/yMeVP9CoS7 #ux #podcast #voiceui #voicefirst pic.twitter.com/l8NXmhkRjW
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References:
- Full transcript of Episode 207
- Ben’s website
- Ben’s voice principles – collection of resources for designing voice interfaces
- Aristotle quote: slaves and subordinates
- Put that there MIT
- Ben’s paradox of voice UI tweet
- NLP – Natural Language Processing (Wikipedia)
- Surströmming (Fermented herring, Wikipedia)
- Say Wizard – Ben’s prototyping tool
- SSML reference (Speech Synthesis Markup Language)
- Chekhov as the voice interface by Jonas Söderström
- Episode 121: Agentive technology with Chris Noessel
- Episode 114: Zero UI with Andy Goodman
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