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Voice UX !
Voice UX !
Long before humans learned to use touch control we were able to communicate by simply saying what was on our minds. It's still by far the best way to get the job done. When interacting with a smart device, the beauty of the Voice User Experience (VUX) is that there's no UI-clutter because there are no rows of physical buttons and no nested on-screen menus to traverse. There's zero requirement for a UI-hierarchy because all speakable commands are uniformly accessible. There's no having to reach for a smartphone, no first finding and opening an App. There is the freedom to just spontaneously say what a device should do, even when your hands are full. The post-smartphone era for device control is here.
Users with an Alexa-enabled device with a screen (e.g. Echo Show) bring their own touchscreen to the party. Meaning that an Alexa skill targeting a simple screenless/small-screened device can add new non-native features the original product lacks. Take our EvoControl skill for Honeywell's 'Evohome' zoned heating system. It adds support for Multiple Schedules, Activities/Scenes, Groups and advanced schedule-editing — features that Evohome itself doesn't even 'have'. EvoControl therefore didn't just bring VUX to Evohome, it extended its capabilities well beyond the original system design-brief. With no additional hardware or firmware development costs and no need to alter the existing product in any way to do so.
At smartskills, we handle everything your Alexa-project needs. For the 4 published skills detailed below we took complete care of: the original idea for all features, the requirements specification, full-stack coding (in nodeJS, Python, PHP and MySQL), secure user-account management and 3rd party oauth, payment processing for paid features (both Amazon ISP & PayPal), product testing, plus creating content and markup for extensive online documentation. We even conceived and created the customer-facing websites (in Bootstrap5, HTML5, CSS3 and JS) for each of the skills. Let us do the same for your project — the earlier you involve us the sooner we can impress you with our unrelenting creativity and vast experience!
