Conversational AI
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…
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Conversational AI
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!…
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Conversational AI
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…
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Conversational AI
August 5, 2019

Add Voice & AI control to Flutter Applications

With this Alan Voice Platform integration, you can add Voice control to any application developed with the Flutter framework. We used the sample Flutter app here made by Google team and then added a Visual Voice experience. Let’s walk through the four steps of how the Flutter integration with Alan…
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Conversational AI
July 18, 2019

Voice In Their Apps

Voice is in its infancy stage but quickly becoming the way we interact with our devices daily. The majority of voice usage comes from the big platform’s own applications and devices: Siri, Google Assistant, and the Amazon Echo device. More and more consumers have adopted voice, now on over 1B…
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Conversational AI
June 16, 2018

Why Alan?

In 1950, Alan Turing asked the question, “Can computers think?” To answer that question, this innovative British mathematician established the notable Turing Test to determine a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, a human. Also known as Artificial Intelligence. Over half a century later, the…
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Business OperationsConversational AI
February 9, 2018

2018 will be the year of Voice in Enterprise

2017 was a year of Cambrian explosion for voice-enabled devices. Echo Dot was Amazon’s best-seller during the holiday period. CES this year offered a glimpse into the future of conversational voice: a world where consumers can use voice to control everything — thermostats, lamps, sprinklers, security systems, smartwatch, fitness bracelet, smart TV, or their…
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Conversational AI
December 18, 2017

Taking your Voice Interface to the Office

Voice assistants have been finding their way into our daily lives. Among at home voice-enabled speaker devices, Amazon has taken a 70% market foothold and sold over 25 million units, while Google trails behind at 23.8% market share and selling 5 million units. These devices, along with their mobile counterparts Siri, Cortana,…
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Conversational AI
December 4, 2017

Entering the Voice Information Era

We are entering an era where the voice is being transformed from audio to information. Contributing factors are behavioral changes in smartphones and voice-controlled speakers, advancements in infrastructure technology, and reduction in infrastructure pricing. Today we use products like Amazon Alexa, Apple Siri and Google Voice with voice commands, and…
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Conversational AI
November 26, 2017

Tapping into Voice at Work

At work, we’re always trying to be more productive: to get more out of doing less, whether it’s our time, our tools, or our method of communication. Digital tools like email, collaboration apps, and messengers have helped us do that, but there’s the one method of communication everyone uses at…
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