Voice User Interface Design VUI

By popular demand, here’s a list of the Top 10 Strategies VUI Designers can follow to design a Spanish application, as published in SpeechTEK’s magazine:

1. Make Spanish as important as any other language
2. Apply Spanish Marketing 101: understand your market
3. Follow user-centric design methodologies: combine usage-case scenario analysis with actual observation
4. Seek professional advice on localization: translations aren’t enough, consider all language, cultural and branding aspects
5. There’s no such thing as “neutral Spanish”: carefully design your persona and coach your voice talent
6. Anticipate recognition, tuning and text-to-speech challenges early: Spanish modules and tools aren’t as robust as English
7. Adapt the transcription process: specific transcription conventions for multilingual utterances
8. Eliminate duplicate documentation: keep all languages synchronized in a single document
9. Context, context, contex: localize the entire dialog and check and check for coherent flow
10. Identify divergence during development: adapt code to dialogue, not the other way around

You can also download the full article: Bueno - Are you listening to your Spanish Speakers

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