The interface between human and robot has never been closer to home. Today, we find ourselves surrounded by a plethora of smart household devices all doing their part to be helpful, convenient and user-friendly. In order to truly achieve these aims, they must interact with us naturally and intuitively. They must have their very own expressive voice.
The word “smart” is used to describe many modern-day home appliances: TVs, refrigerators, sound systems, vacuum cleaners, washing machines, ovens. But it certainly doesn’t always feel that way. Surely if they were so smart, they would be able to have real conversations with us. The good news is that they can. You can offer a truly high-quality, interactive voice experience in your products. Put the “smart” back in “smart devices” with your very own personalized voice.
When interacting with a robot, we may be impressed by how they move, how they look or what they can do. But we are invariably fascinated and engaged when they start talking to us. Voice is the single best way for any digital machine to trigger emotions within us and cultivate a deeper social connection. A machine’s voice (what it says and how it says it) is a vastly more powerful and nuanced interface than any physical display could come close to. Voice is a critical driver for the adoption of social robots and interactive smart devices, both at work and at home.
To facilitate natural and intuitive interactions with people, a machine must incorporate human-like features into its personality, such as an expressive, unique, personalized voice. For a domestic robot or smart device to integrate fully with its household, it must be able to establish a relationship of trust with its user. The more expressive and communicative a robot is, the more trust-worthy and satisfying it is to play, work and collaborate with. Such a device can build a sense of rapport and trust with its user, enabling it to function as an assistant, entertainer and companion for those who are dependent, confined or isolated, greatly improving their quality of life.
Modern voice-enabled domestic devices are skilled at performing simple tasks – dimming the lights, skipping a song, changing the TV channel. In the kitchen, there is a huge opportunity for voice-enabled smart devices to make a major impact. With integration of Voxygen’s solutions into your kitchen appliances, you can give a voice to everything but the kitchen sink. For most of us, cooking involves going back and forth to scan a static, impersonal, written recipe so that we can check what we’re doing and prepare dishes at our own pace. However, voice can guide us with personalized, targeted and dynamic information according to the user’s needs. Delivered in a soothing and professional voice, instructions, reminders and even compliments help to reduce the stress and enhance the fun.
Be it on a tablet, games console or as a secondary function for any other device, the ability to play alongside a competitor or teammate with an expressive voice that reacts in real-time to your actions truly is a game changer. A voice-enabled gaming system or accessory can also give you feedback on your performance or tips during gameplay without distracting you from the experience.
Voxygen delivers a powerful embedded solution integrated directly on your device’s hardware. This permits all speech synthesis to be performed locally and even while your device is offline. Never again will a robot suddenly fall silent because of bad connectivity. Voxygen SDK is multilingual, high-quality, high-speed, cross-platform and extremely simple to integrate.
The interface between human and robot has never been closer to home. Today, we find ourselves surrounded by a plethora of smart household devices all doing their part to be helpful, convenient and user-friendly. In order to truly achieve these aims, they must interact with us naturally and intuitively. They must have their very own expressive voice.
The word “smart” is used to describe many modern-day home appliances: TVs, refrigerators, sound systems, vacuum cleaners, washing machines, ovens. But it certainly doesn’t always feel that way. Surely if they were so smart, they would be able to have real conversations with us. The good news is that they can. You can offer a truly high-quality, interactive voice experience in your products. Put the “smart” back in “smart devices” with your very own personalized voice.
When interacting with a robot, we may be impressed by how they move, how they look or what they can do. But we are invariably fascinated and engaged when they start talking to us. Voice is the single best way for any digital machine to trigger emotions within us and cultivate a deeper social connection. A machine’s voice (what it says and how it says it) is a vastly more powerful and nuanced interface than any physical display could come close to. Voice is a critical driver for the adoption of social robots and interactive smart devices, both at work and at home.
To facilitate natural and intuitive interactions with people, a machine must incorporate human-like features into its personality, such as an expressive, unique, personalized voice. For a domestic robot or smart device to integrate fully with its household, it must be able to establish a relationship of trust with its user. The more expressive and communicative a robot is, the more trust-worthy and satisfying it is to play, work and collaborate with. Such a device can build a sense of rapport and trust with its user, enabling it to function as an assistant, entertainer and companion for those who are dependent, confined or isolated, greatly improving their quality of life.
Modern voice-enabled domestic devices are skilled at performing simple tasks – dimming the lights, skipping a song, changing the TV channel. In the kitchen, there is a huge opportunity for voice-enabled smart devices to make a major impact. With integration of Voxygen’s solutions into your kitchen appliances, you can give a voice to everything but the kitchen sink. For most of us, cooking involves going back and forth to scan a static, impersonal, written recipe so that we can check what we’re doing and prepare dishes at our own pace. However, voice can guide us with personalized, targeted and dynamic information according to the user’s needs. Delivered in a soothing and professional voice, instructions, reminders and even compliments help to reduce the stress and enhance the fun.
Be it on a tablet, games console or as a secondary function for any other device, the ability to play alongside a competitor or teammate with an expressive voice that reacts in real-time to your actions truly is a game changer. A voice-enabled gaming system or accessory can also give you feedback on your performance or tips during gameplay without distracting you from the experience.
Voxygen delivers a powerful embedded solution integrated directly on your device’s hardware. This permits all speech synthesis to be performed locally and even while your device is offline. Never again will a robot suddenly fall silent because of bad connectivity. Voxygen SDK is multilingual, high-quality, high-speed, cross-platform and extremely simple to integrate.
