The investigation on voice first interactions

This wiki is our investigation on voice-first interactions, includes Alexa, Google Home and others.

Awesome VUI

The following lists the featured articles about the VUI design, tutorials and libraries.

Design guide

• Alexa design guide
• Functional Requirements for AVS Products
• AVS UX Design Overview
• Interaction Model
• Overcoming bias in Voice UI

Dialog and conversation

• Designing for Conversation

Skill Tutorial

• Alexa: Understand the Smart Home Skill API
• Alexa: Understand the Video Skill API
• Alexa: Understand the Music Skill API

Tools

• Thestoryline Simple user interface mapping tool to create Amazon Alexa skills.
• Sayspring Create interactive voice prototypes for Amazon Alexa and Google Home.
• Backendless: Create voice interface programs without writing any code.

SDK

• alexa/avs-device-sdk

Terminology

• Shannon–Weaver model
• Enable Cloud-Based Wake Word Verification
• VoiceXML