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In India, voice-based UIs are extremely important in the local app ecosystem, because of wide illiteracy in rural areas.

by mighmi 3y ago

andsoitis 3y ago
I've heard that too. Do you have an example of an app that has a particularly great VUI? Preferably something with a discovery component, not just executing commands.
fooker 3y ago
Do you have evidence for this? As far as I understand, speech recognition accuracy for Indian languages is basically non existent outside research demos.
- xNeil 3y ago
  I believe parent is talking about a focus on Voice UIs like Voice Notes and Messages. Not transcribing the voice into text, but the voice itself.
  - fooker 3y ago
    This too doesn't exist in a form usable by people outside the anglosphere.
- mighmi 3y ago
  https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-all-top-e-commerce-apps-india-adding-voice-kumar-rangarajan https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-all-top-e-commerce-apps-i... > already added in-app voice assistants to their apps - Amazon, Flipkart, Big Basket, Udaan, P&G, and JioMart > Voice technology has finally caught up and can now understand Indian dialects and language reasonably well https://www.trinityaudio.ai/the-audio-and-voice-revolution-in-india https://www.trinityaudio.ai/the-audio-and-voice-revolution-i... > India is the second quickest nation to adopt voice-activated technology, just behind the US. More than three-quarters (76%) of the users are familiar with the speech and voice recognition technology. As a result, Hindi is the second-most commonly used language on Google Assistant, behind the English language. > Voice assistants can understand accents and vocabulary not just in Hindi but also in other regional languages, https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/marketing-branding/branding/indian-consumers-are-using-voice-technology-to-get-things-done-brands-are-you-listening/articleshow/78072966.cms https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/marketing-bra... > Voice is enabling access even for users in India who cannot afford a smartphone. Voice technology works even on a simple Jio feature phone running KaiOS. Priced between Rs 700 to Rs 1400 price range, these phones are used by 100 million people. While these entry level phones don't have the fancy capabilities of touch, they still come equipped with technology that is helping ordinary Indians in far-flung villages and towns use voice as their primary interface to navigate their phone and access a ..

In India, voice-based UIs are extremely important in the local app ecosystem, because of wide illiteracy in rural areas.

by mighmi 3y ago

In India, voice-based UIs are extremely important in the local app ecosystem, because of wide illiteracy in rural areas.

andsoitis 3y ago

I've heard that too. Do you have an example of an app that has a particularly great VUI? Preferably something with a discovery component, not just executing commands.

fooker 3y ago

Do you have evidence for this? As far as I understand, speech recognition accuracy for Indian languages is basically non existent outside research demos.

xNeil 3y ago
I believe parent is talking about a focus on Voice UIs like Voice Notes and Messages. Not transcribing the voice into text, but the voice itself.
- fooker 3y ago
  This too doesn't exist in a form usable by people outside the anglosphere.
mighmi 3y ago
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-all-top-e-commerce-apps-india-adding-voice-kumar-rangarajan https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-all-top-e-commerce-apps-i... > already added in-app voice assistants to their apps - Amazon, Flipkart, Big Basket, Udaan, P&G, and JioMart > Voice technology has finally caught up and can now understand Indian dialects and language reasonably well https://www.trinityaudio.ai/the-audio-and-voice-revolution-in-india https://www.trinityaudio.ai/the-audio-and-voice-revolution-i... > India is the second quickest nation to adopt voice-activated technology, just behind the US. More than three-quarters (76%) of the users are familiar with the speech and voice recognition technology. As a result, Hindi is the second-most commonly used language on Google Assistant, behind the English language. > Voice assistants can understand accents and vocabulary not just in Hindi but also in other regional languages, https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/marketing-branding/branding/indian-consumers-are-using-voice-technology-to-get-things-done-brands-are-you-listening/articleshow/78072966.cms https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/marketing-bra... > Voice is enabling access even for users in India who cannot afford a smartphone. Voice technology works even on a simple Jio feature phone running KaiOS. Priced between Rs 700 to Rs 1400 price range, these phones are used by 100 million people. While these entry level phones don't have the fancy capabilities of touch, they still come equipped with technology that is helping ordinary Indians in far-flung villages and towns use voice as their primary interface to navigate their phone and access a ..