June 10, 2021
Whitepaper: Privacy & Security for Smart Apps
Read our whitepaper, Privacy & Security for Smart Apps on the Alan Platform, to learn how smart apps can best protect their users.
May 20, 2021
Why Marketers Turn to Chatbots and Voice Assistants
Chatbots and voice assistants weren't created with marketers first in mind. Both are task-oriented products at their cores, serving users when actual human beings can't, which is quite often. So it should come as no surprise that both support an estimated 5 billion global users combined. And now marketers are…
April 28, 2021
4 Things Your Voice UX Needs to Be Great
The future arrived a long time ago. Problems at work and in life are now more complex. Settling for linear solutions will not suffice. So how do we know what separates a high-quality modern voice user experience (UX) from the rest?
April 28, 2021
SLU 101
It’s no secret voice tech performs everyday magic for users. By now, basic voice product capabilities and features are well-known to the public. Common knowledge is enough to tell us what this technology does. Yet we fail to consider what factors and mechanisms behind the scenes enable these products to…
March 16, 2021
Women Making History in Tech
At Alan AI, we care about making all technology easily accessible to everyone and aim to bridge this gap using voice AI. Accessibility is a value we hold in high regard and it starts within our company. We believe building a diverse team is critical in crafting our platform and…
January 28, 2021
Smart Living: The Latest Smart Home Tech to Add to your Home
Living in a smart house used to only exist in sci-fi movies. Fast forward to today and connected homes and smart gadgets are quickly becoming the norm. Smart home tech has transformed every aspect of home life, from security and basic kitchen tasks to how a house is built. It’s…
January 14, 2021
Elevate Your Education App with a Virtual Study Buddy
As students continue their curriculums on mobile apps during the ongoing pandemic, they face four major obstacles. Thankfully, virtual voice assistants can easily address these common problems with voice recognition technology.
December 30, 2020
Keeping 2021 New Year’s Resolutions with an AI Personal Trainer
What sets a health app with a voice assistant apart from competitors is its ability to maintain user engagement. Using human-like conversation, it provides people with encouragement that goes beyond bland text notifications.
December 16, 2020
They’re Off! The Race for Intelligent Apps has Begun!!
Most learning in life takes place with conversations. In 2021, businesses’ applications will take their first steps in accelerated learning by exploiting the use of voice as a natural interface with their apps, in consonance with the AI platforms that will use voice conversations to learn and continuously improve interactions.
November 30, 2020
Voice Assistant for Fitness and Wellness Apps: Your Personal AI Trainer
Voice assistants can mark your progress, motivate you during your workouts, assign weekly breaks, and schedule routines around your calendar. They can give you gentle reminders and progress metrics to encourage users to stay in shape.
November 19, 2020
Voice Assistants: How Human-Like Conversations Transform your UX
Voice commerce has paved the way for a frictionless shopping experience that eliminates unnecessary steps and gets right to the action, putting the ‘friendly’ in ‘user-friendly.’ It’s hard to imagine an interface that can be more user-friendly and hassle-free than that.
November 12, 2020
Frustrated Users & Poor Conversions: How Voice Assistants are Solving Classic UX Problems
When it comes to customer acquisition, it’s essential to make a good impression. There are many facets to creating a lasting impact, and there isn’t a direct formula for each and every case. There are enough opportunities to lose customers between lousy website design and awful customer support, but if…
November 5, 2020
7 Reasons Why You Need a Voice Assistant in Your Application
Voice assistants are changing the way we use technology and the way we live. They have drastically improved over the last five years and are finally available for every application, offering a custom experience for every user.
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…