October 15, 2020
2020 Q3 Alan Platform Update
We've been hard at work these past few months, adding and updating the most requested features to the Alan Platform. These new product updates will provide ease and efficiency to your day as you create, test, and deploy human-like conversational experiences in your applications.
October 15, 2020
SLU: The Intelligence Foundation for Your Business
Imagine a future where AI has advanced to comprehend what we say, what we need to do next, and then provide the needed assistance to expeditiously complete tasks to produce the desired outcomes. In order to accomplish this, we need a "Spoken Language Understanding" (SLU), the Intelligence Foundation for every…
October 8, 2020
Ushering in Self-Service 3.0
Everyone wants the most effective business operations daily. Unfortunately, if we look closely at business operations, we will recognize that often, we use expensive highly qualified resources to do mundane jobs.
October 1, 2020
Today’s Successful Apps have Human-Like Conversations!
We are human beings; we want every interaction with everything else to be human-like. This is the most effective and efficient way of interacting with other entities. That is what we have grown up with and that is what we have practiced all our lives.
September 23, 2020
The New World of Conversational Voice AI
During the last decade, voice assistants have become the new way to interact with computers, and over the past several years, we have heard that AI (Deep Learning) has helped speech recognition accuracy reach 95% for specific workloads and applications.
During the first two weeks of July, Alan AI hosted the World’s first Hackathon for Voice-enabled Applications and we've been very impressed by the innovative ideas and the incredible submissions that we've seen in this worldwide voice tech event! Today we are thrilled to announce the winners of our first…
Alan AI is hosting its first virtual hackathon about Voice AI and inviting developers worldwide to take part! With the Voice AI Hackathon, we are challenging developers to integrate a voice assistant to their new or existing applications or other open-source apps through our conversational voice platform.
June 17, 2020
The Next Generation of Healthcare Workflows: COVID-19 Rapid Assessment Tool with Voice
The current world requires new protocols to streamline the operations, automate the process, and eliminate the improvisation that causes hospitals to rapidly ramp up and down their workforce when dealing with an influx of patients. For this, AI technology is here to help!
May 7, 2020
Alan Q1 2020 Business Update
The world is going to change forever post COVID-19. We are preparing Alan for the emerging transformation by enabling Voice in every application. In Q1, we’ve significantly improved our product, the Alan Platform, a self-service technology platform within easy reach of every developer using any application platform. With Alan, any…
May 7, 2020
Safety of Frontline Utility Workers
In the Post COVID-19 world, every business is conscious about protecting the safety of its employees and customers. This is especially true for the Utility Industry. To this end, the new normal is a Contactless user experience for many business workflows. Today, Alan Conversational Voice UX can rapidly enhance a…
April 27, 2020
Top 10 Hands-Free Apps for Android 2020
We’ve gathered some of the most popular and useful hands-free apps for Android to see what they can offer and why other businesses should be heading in that direction as well.
April 20, 2020
Alan Q1 2020 Product Update
Hello all, I hope you’ve all been well. In Q1 the Alan Platform progressed with more improved Spoken Language Understanding and faster debugging of your conversational voice scripts. Here is our new video with an overview of the Alan Platform. Below are key updates: Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) We’ve…
When you’re wearing heavy gloves or hanging high from a utility pole, don’t you wish your mobile application understood your spoken voice the same as if it was a typed command? The Alan AI team recognized the benefit of mobile applications having intelligent conversational voice enablement, and took it far…
March 27, 2020
Technology and Innovation for Public Safety
The public safety sector is constantly looking for new and better ways to protect cities, infrastructure, businesses, and citizens. What should not be overlooked is the potential of technology to prepare, anticipate, and respond to these needs. In terms of adopting new technology, public safety is considered to be moving…
March 23, 2020
Voice AI and COVID-19
Governments are closing borders, prohibiting large gatherings, advocating social-distancing, and encouraging good hygiene. However, if you are an immunocompromised person or live with someone who is, following government guidelines can still be challenging. One thing we can all do is to limit who and what we touch at home and…
March 20, 2020
How to Add Speech Recognition to Your Website
Until recently, it was hard to imagine voice technology surpassing the usability of many real-world applications, in real environments. However, we can already see how speech recognition systems change the way we interact with machines like they do with Siri, Google Assistant, and Cortana. More and more businesses are looking…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRTrmnk51RQ&feature=youtu.be Co-founder and CEO of Alan Ramu Sunkara, sat down to talk about how Alan and Incture are bringing the world's first conversational voice experience to field asset management. Together, Incture and Alan have deployed touchless mobile field asset management in the Energy industry with the Murphy Oil IOP application…
March 13, 2020
Types of User Interfaces
The User Interface (UI) is the space where interactions between humans and computers occur; it consists of information output from the machine, as well as a set of control elements for the user to perform certain actions. These interactions enable an efficient system where machines aid the user’s decision-making process…
March 4, 2020
What Is a Medical Chatbot?
Healthcare chatbots offer a personalized approach to every user; in ways that can be more convenient, and efficient that they surpass human capabilities. Let’s take a look at the top health chatbots that are redefining interactive healthcare and how you can use artificial intelligence for your medical business operations. Table…
February 21, 2020
What is Conversational AI?
The development of conversational AI is a huge step forward for how people interact with computers. The menu, touchscreen, and mouse are all still useful, but it is only a matter of time before the voice-operated interface becomes indispensable to our daily lives. Conversational AI is arguably the most natural…
February 17, 2020
What is a Conversational User Interface (CUI)?
The Evolution of the CUI In many industries, customers and employees need access to relevant, contextual information that is quick and convenient. Conversational User Interfaces (CUIs) enable direct, human-like engagement with computers. It completely transforms the way we interact with systems and applications. CUIs are becoming an increasingly popular tool,…
February 10, 2020
Voice User Experience Patterns for existing Application UI
Alan’s Voice AI Platform allows anyone to enhance their existing application UI with a complete Voice User Experience. Industries including Energy, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Aerospace, and many more are using Alan to add hands-free voice experiences to their applications, and we expect many more to follow. We put together our findings…
January 27, 2020
Touchless Mobile Apps for Oil Well Operations at Murphy Oil
Murphy Oil Corporation is a leading energy company based in Houston, Texas, operating in the asset-intensive energy industry. The production oil wells need frequent planned and unplanned maintenance activities by their field employees. These operational field activities are essential in keeping the oil wells at targeted production capacity as well…
January 16, 2020
Alan AI – Vision and outlook for 2020
We wish you all a happy New Year. As we are on the cusp of the New Year, we would like to thank you for all the conversations with us in 2019. In 2019, Alan AI experienced its most significant transition to validate our product, Alan Conversational Voice AI Platform,…
November 13, 2019
Alan Studio Walkthrough: Part 3
Part 3 The third and final part in our series describing Alan Studio and how to get started with the Alan Platform. Embed Code Once you are happy with your scripts from part one and part two, you can add the Alan Button to your application. Let’s go to the…
November 13, 2019
Alan Studio Walkthrough: Part 2
Part 2 The second in a three part series that describes Alan Studio and how to start with the Alan Platform. If you haven’t read the first part, we highly recommend that you do so here! Customizing Scripts Let’s continue our work with the Food Ordering demo by asking, “What…
November 7, 2019
Alan Studio Walkthrough: Part 1
Part 1 This is the first in a three part series how to get started with the Alan Platform. If you would like to follow along with this tutorial yourself, all the files necessary will be available on our GitHub, and you can also follow along using this video tutorial!…
October 25, 2019
What is a voice assistant?
A voice assistant is a digital assistant that uses voice recognition, language processing algorithms, and voice synthesis to listen to specific voice commands and return relevant information or perform specific functions as requested by the user. Based on specific commands, sometimes called intents, spoken by the user, voice assistants can…