{"id":5130,"date":"2018-07-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/careerfoundry.inbearbeitung.de\/en\/blog\/uncategorized\/what-does-the-future-hold-for-voice-technology-a-closer-look-at-vuis\/"},"modified":"2021-08-05T11:52:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T09:52:24","slug":"what-does-the-future-hold-for-voice-technology-a-closer-look-at-vuis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/careerfoundry.inbearbeitung.de\/en\/blog\/ux-design\/what-does-the-future-hold-for-voice-technology-a-closer-look-at-vuis\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does the Future Hold for Voice Technology? A Closer Look At VUIs"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re interested in becoming a voice designer<\/a>, let’s have a look at what the future might hold for this cutting edge industry.<\/p>\n

\u201cVoice is the next major disruption in computing.\u201d
\nMax Amordeluso, EU head of Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) at Amazon<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here’s what we’ll discuss:<\/p>\n

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  1. A brief introduction to voice technology and VUI<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Voice technology: The future is now<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Making the VUI ubiquitous<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. New technology creates new challenges<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    1. A brief introduction to voice technology and VUI<\/h2>\n

    Did you ever watch the Star Trek series? Can you recall the voice-controlled spaceship there? Maybe not, but Star Trek has had a significant impact on our lives.<\/p>\n

    Way back in November 2014, Amazon introduced the Alexa cloud service with the first smart speaker device, Amazon Echo, inspired by the TV series created decades earlier. It is the power of a dream. Almost anything one can imagine is possible to create some day.<\/p>\n

    \"Amazon<\/p>\n

    Amazon Echo devices
    \nSource:     Amazon.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

    In 2015, Amazon opened up the Alexa platform for developers outside the company to create their own voice applications. Now just three years later we are witnessing the fastest spreading technology in the history of humankind, the voice design revolution<\/a>\u00a0driven by tech giants like Amazon and Google.<\/p>\n

    What’s unique about a voice user interface (VUI)?<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Language is the most natural medium for us to communicate with each other. We make requests or ask questions, we express our dreams by speaking.<\/p>\n

    Richard Saul Wurman, creator of the TED conference, said: \u201cThere is nothing else we can do better when we do conversation well. There is no other communication device that provides such subtle and instantaneous feedback, nor permits such a range of evaluation and correctability.\u201d<\/p>\n

    This has not changed since the beginning of humanity. \u00a0The ancient art of the conversation continues, and that makes VUI design so in demand.<\/p>\n

    2. Voice technology: The future is now<\/h2>\n

    “The future is already here \u2014 it\u2019s just not very evenly distributed.”
    \nWilliam Gibson, writer<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    For a video overview of how VUI is game-changing, check out this video:<\/p>\n