Voice User Interfaces (VUI)

Sunesh Govindaraj
terralogicinc
Published in
2 min readSep 20, 2018

In VUI (Voice User Interface), there are no visual affordances; so, while looking at a VUI, users have no clear indications of what the port may do or what their options are. Since people typically associate the voice with interpersonal communication as opposed to with person-technology interaction, they’re sometimes unsure of the sophistication to which the VUI can understand.

The complex nature of an individual conversing with a VUI means a designer needs to pay particular attention to just how easily a user may overstep with anticipation. This is the reason designing the item in such a simple, to maintain the user aware that a two-way “human” conversation is infeasible. Similarly, the user’s patience in building a communications “rapport” can assist improve satisfaction when the VUI, becoming increasingly more acquainted with the speaker’s voice utilized more economically, rewarding him/her with more precise responses.

VUI enables people to use voice input signal to control devices and computers. In brief, voice encounters are great when they offer a faster, easier, or more beautiful way of doing things.

These are potentially fueling the rise of VUI:

1. Web Services, IoT have Internet services and the Internet of Things offer ready-made opportunities for voice.

2. Leverage learnings from fields such as automatic speech recognition (ASR), natural language understanding (NLU), and text to speech (TTS).

3. Present hardware can encourage far-field voice input processing (FFVIP), allowing a wider range of encounters with VUIs.

4. VUIs are learning and adapting to users’ address patterns, personal tastes, and contexts with time making life smarter.
Each and every one of those advances are driving a modulation point in voice technology. Like its other prototypes, VUI is rapidly turning out to be capable and robust. With every turn of technology, these visionaries are now doing the exact same for voice, paving the way toward fully-conversational, multi-modal interactions that extend to cellular, wearables, as well as virtual reality. Today’s VUI’s are quickly growing smarter, learning the user’s address patterns with time as well as constructing their very own language. With VUI’s fast-evolving, voice has been poised to be the upcoming major disruption in computing. Terralogic now is working with the pace of need on developing machine learning VUI’s for specific domains.

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Sunesh Govindaraj
terralogicinc

Infrastructure Security @Mollie | Never Ending Learner | tweets @suneshgovind