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Fail fast, fail cheap, voice apps the guerrilla way - Smart Voice Summit Paris, 2018

bensauer
February 01, 2018

Fail fast, fail cheap, voice apps the guerrilla way - Smart Voice Summit Paris, 2018

Whether you’re building or commissioning voice apps, come about how to maximise your chances of success with minimal effort, using the Wizard of Oz method.

bensauer

February 01, 2018
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  1. FAIL FAST, FAIL CHEAP: MAKING VOICE APPS THE GUERRILLA WAY

    @bensauer SMART VOICE SUMMIT, PARIS, JAN 2018
  2. EINSTEIN (POSSIBLY) Insanity: doing the same thing over and over

    again and expecting different results. @bensauer
  3. JOHN MAEDA If a picture is worth a thousand words,

    a prototype is worth a thousand meetings. @bensauer
  4. @bensauer WIZARD OF OZ TESTING • Can you fool Dorothy?

    • Does the system have all the responses? • Can they use/understand it? • What synonyms do they use? • What challenges have you missed?
  5. @bensauer Could I go from an idea for a voice

    interface, to a test, in under an hour? CHALLENGE:
  6. @bensauer 1 HOUR TEST - SAY WIZARD • Write some

    sample dialogue in a text file • Cover the 80% - the ‘happy' path • Take out the human answers • Run your test • Iterate
  7. RESOURCES Test your voice idea in 1 hour
 http://tiny.cc/1hourvoicetest 


    Say Wizard
 https://github.com/bensauer/saywizard
  8. ED CATMULL If you aren’t experiencing failure, then you are

    making a far worse mistake. 
 
 You are being driven by the desire to avoid it. @bensauer