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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Business OperationsConversational AI
November 15, 2017

Future of Voice in Enterprise

We talk with our co-workers, customers, partners, and other stakeholders in business every day. In every meeting, whether in-person, web conference or over the phone, we use voice as the primary medium of communication. Be it project meetings, sales calls, support calls or interviews, precious information is contained in these…
Conversational AI
September 1, 2017

Era of Infinite Computing

We’re living in the era of Infinite Computing with the creation of Cloud Platforms like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. Our daily lives are transformed by services like Google, Facebook, and Uber. The phone revolution leverages the cloud services to talk to anyone on the planet, get to any place, order anything, and get entertained without taking…
Conversational AI
August 22, 2017

“Age of Accelerations”

I recently read Tom Friedman’s book “Thank You for Being Late”. One of the key takeaways is that we live in the “age of accelerations” due to the technology industry. Wireless networks and phones enable us to capture information easily and transfer it onto the Internet, which is then distributed…
Conversational AI
August 15, 2017

What did you hear?

The average working adult spends 31.5% of their time listening. According to research by Adler, Rosenfeld, and Proctor, in their seminal research published in the 8th edition of their book, “Interplay: The process of interpersonal communicating”, we spend 70 % of our time communicating and 45% of that time listening. …