I’m a bot. But who am I?

Gary Levitt
Yala Inc.
Published in
1 min readMay 24, 2016

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As we’ve been designing Yala’s robo-voice, it’s been anything but easy. Sure, there’s the whole robot cliché but we’re trying to go beyond it. Our goals have been:

Do we go over-the-top botspeak-crazy?

“Initializing machine-learning vectors…”

Do we imagine what retro-bots would say if they could speak?

“Skidoo, humdinger, wisenheimer”

What about plain-speak? Nothing fancy or artsy.

Can bots create interest through language and conversation without being annoying? Share your bot-lingo notions below!

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Gary Levitt
Yala Inc.

Farm-raised, ex-skater-pro, musician, founder of yalabot.com and madmimi.com (now GoDaddy Email Marketing). Builder of nice things.