About Smartskills
Architect. Create. Code. Certify. Deploy. Maintain — your full-service partner for Alexa skill specification & authoring.
Beyond basic command sets…
Many skills — especially those targeting the Smart Home — implement a bare minimum of commands to be able to claim 'supports Alexa'.…
Extra voice-control possibilities don't create UI-clutter the way additional icons/buttons do on a touchscreen or button-remote. You can support all the possibilities and delight your customers, while still keeping things uncomplicated for entry-level users.
- New feature-ideas not designed into the original product UI can often be addressed easily through voice.
- Once people grasp the voice paradigm, they expect more. They should !
- Share your concept with us and we'll design a worthy vUX to handle it all.
As a shining example, our MediaServer skill to control Logitech® Squeezebox™ music streamers allows voice control of 100% of the commands supported by the API. With 95 intents, 19 slots and nearly 4000 utterance samples. That's attention to detail. An often-heard complaint about Alexa skills is that there's usually only rather sketchy documentation. We do it differently — MediaServer's extensive documentation speaks for itself.
vUX has no clutter
Look, no buttons
The thing about vUX is that there are no visible buttons or menus. Alexa looks the same whether you support 1000 spoken commands or 10.
It's not intimidating
Asking questions is a very natural way to discover how to do things. There's no 'thickness' to a product manual implemented in voice.
There are no layers
Menu-based interfaces require deep nesting to support large feature-numbers. With voice, all commands are accessible from the top level.
It can be multimedia
Deploying vUX can optionally play audio and video clips and show cards on screen-equipped devices. For the best of the old … and the new !
Voice isn't coming, it's already here
The number of voice assistants in use will triple to 8 billion by 2023. Alexa is already at over 100 million devices…
The time to voice-enable your product is now. Your competitors are doing it. Customers expect it.
vUX provides a more personal experience for humans than physical buttons or touchscreens, leveraging the voice-assistant hardware your customer already has. It's quite simply the next paradigm after touch. Embrace it!
Smartskills
Architect. Create. Code. Certify. Deploy. Maintain.
Your full-service partner for Alexa skill specification & authoring.