Fast Scalable Voice IoT Apps — Syed Ahmed, PubNub — Voice Tech Podcast ep.012
Full episode:
https://voicetechpodcast.com/episodes/fast-scalable-voice-iot-apps-syed-ahmed-pubnub-voice-tech-podcast-ep-012
Episode description:
Syed Ahmed is a Developer Advocate at PubNub, a global Data Stream Network and real-time infrastructure-as-a-service company based in San Francisco, California. PubNub’s products allow developers to build realtime web, mobile, voice and IoT applications. Low network latency is especially important for voice enabled applications that integrate with IoT devices, as any delay during a conversational interaction can affect usability and frustrate users.
In this episode, Syed explains how PubNub solves the latency problem by using a serverless architecture of PubNub Blocks, and walks us through a simple real-world example of a voice enabled doorbell. We learn about the publisher-subscriber pattern that underpins this technology, and why building voice apps with PubNub is quicker, easier and much more scalable than other methods.
A nice surprise during this conversation was that using PubNub Blocks not only improves the network performance of voice apps, but can be used to add advanced features such as contextual memory between phrases, and even between voice devices on different platforms, allowing developers to build more advanced interactions. It’s a great episode, so check it out!
Links from the show:
Full show notes: https://voicetechpodcast.com
PubNub Blocks: https://www.pubnub.com/docs/blocks-catalog
PubNub project example: https://hackernoon.com/voice-alexa-and-realtime-making-interactions-into-lasting-experiences-fa46aab9503b
More articles from Syed: https://medium.com/@nxsyed
Publish-subscribe pattern: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publish%E2%80%93subscribe_pattern
Syed’s code examples on Github: https://github.com/nxsyed
Syed on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nxsyed
Syed on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/nxsyed/
Syed’s personal site: https://www.nxsyed.me/
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