It was very interesting that we were just recently talking about what it would take to make documentation actually useful, and a couple of weeks later I heard about a new book by the GuiMags guys (creators of a magnet-based prototyping tool for interface design) titled “The Unplugged.” What I find very interesting about it [...]
I was recently reading an article about the future of wireframes in the context of user interface design documentation. Wireframes have been used mostly for visual elements and became a critical building block in the early days of the web. But since I like drawing analogies between other UI fields and the VUI field, there [...]
Outbound calling (meaning automated phone calls that go out to specific individuals) is a very profitable business that thrives at times such as this one when companies need to reach more consumers yet want to reduce the costs of making those calls since most of the time they are nothing more than the equivalent of [...]
I have to admit that in this time and age, even with all the advantages technology provides, when it comes down to keeping track of pending items, errands and to-do-items, I tend to stay in the analog world (read pen and paper). So I was very excited to read about a new smart phone app [...]
Mobile search has been identified as one of those applications where Speech Recognition can become the killer app. There are many instances in which speech recognition has been integrated with mobile devices, some of which include doing recognition embedded on the device, some others that perform the recognition on “the network” (a remote server farm) [...]
Just when you though that having a single phone number that would ring all your phones, coupled with a central voicemail inbox accesible from the web, including the ability to screen calls by listening in live as callers leave a voicemail for free couldn’t get any better, Google does it again. That’s right. Google is [...]
We’ve talked in the past about the use of speech recognition in the realm of note taking, where tools such as Jott allow you to obtain a text version of a voice message, making it easier to document and search for information. Well, Microsoft just recently unveiled a new application of speech recognition, but this [...]
With more people spending more time watching video on their computers than on TV, it makes sense to have a XUI – A channel for User Interface Design. Enjoy!
It seems after all the criticism Amazon received on the user interface of it’s original Kindle, they’ve addressed not only some of the concerns but also took some of the suggestions which are now part of their second version of the device. Some of those suggestions included adding speech-to-text capabilities to the Kindle 2.0, making [...]
I know we’re used to relate the notion of IVRs with arcane self-service over-the-phone systems and IVR jails, yet a company called Moshi found away to leverage the notion of “Interactive Voice Response” in a totally distinctive way. The Moshi IVR Alarm Clock is the first one to my knowledge that allows you to set [...]
