Understanding speech — part 1
With voice assistants on the rise, you probably have heard of SSML as a way to make your voice assistant sound less robotic and more humanlike. To use SSML effectively, it really helps if you’re familiar with some of the core concepts of speech.
Blender turned rogue?
Facebook’s AI chatbot might just be saying what you want it to say… Interesting Tweet last week: Blender, Facebook’s much-hyped AI chatbot, is reported to have turned rogue and start spewing anti-semitic responses. Ahhh much like Marvin the paranoid android,...
Understanding speech — Part 2
Want to know what you can do to make your voice action sound more speech-like? Let’s continue with part 2 of my speech primer for conversation designers, in which I discuss backchannelling, discourse markers, and deixis. Conversational space — Maaike Groenewege (art...
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