When designing a chat bot or voice bot, be careful not to over-polish your dialogue. Keep it natural and free flowing. Here’s how.
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read moreStandford University found that chatbots and voicebots that are positioned as toddlers fair better than those positioned as experts.
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read moreWhy speech recognition systems struggle with accents, how you can hack your training data, and the importance of solving ASR at a platform level.
read moreIn a study by Uswitch, it was found that Irish, Welsh and Scottish accents are the hardest for voice assistants like Alexa to understand. Here’s why Alexa doesn’t understand your accent.
read morePeople often say that it’s going to be quite a while before voice catches on. But user behaviour is changing irrevocably as we speak.
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read moreWhat is the conversational equivalent of an ear worm? An ear worm is a song that you just cannot get out of your head. It doesn’t matter how hard you…
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