Voice trends and search

A talk about the state of voice and how voice interfaces will impact search engines. Presented at Hackference 2016.

Transcript

1. Community #hackference OCT 21 2016 Community Josh Dzielak Developer Advocate josh@algolia.com @dzello Lightning talk: voice trends and search October 21, 2016 — #hackference
2. Community #hackference OCT 21 2016 IS VOICE HERE YET?
3. Community #hackference OCT 21 2016 35x VOICE SEARCH QUERY GROWTH Data from Google trends for searches likely to be voice commands (neat trick) Sorry Dads
4. Community #hackference OCT 21 2016 MOST CONSUMER VOICE ADOPTION IS RECENT And adoption is speeding up Shift to mobile encourages voice, typing is harder, mobile-first won’t need to learn touch typing source: survey by MindMeld, Dec. 2015
5. Community #hackference OCT 21 2016 VOICE ADOPTION DRIVEN BY HANDS-FREE & VISION-FREE INTERACTION Car & Home & VR/AR 12% adopt voice search to avoid confusing menus :)
6. Community #hackference OCT 21 2016 VOICE ADOPTION DRIVEN BY TECHNOLOGY IMPROVEMENTS source: 2016 KPCB Internet Trends Report
7. Community #hackference OCT 21 2016 ACCURACY IS IMPROVING FAST Oct. 2016 Historic Achievement: Microsoft researchers reach human parity in conversational speech recognition Humans are 95-96% accurate Andrew Ng of Baidu believes 99% accuracy is the “game changer”
8. Community #hackference OCT 21 2016 SEARCHES DONE BY VOICE OR IMAGE BY 2020 50%
9. Community #hackference OCT 21 2016 HOW DOES VOICE CHANGE SEARCH?
10. Community #hackference OCT 21 2016 voice query: “Show me all restaurants near the jewellery district in Birmingham” or on mobile: “Where’s a good place to eat around here?” • The words we type aren’t the same as the words we say. (questions, more stop words, politeness!) keyboard query: “restaurants jewellery district birmingham”
11. Community #hackference OCT 21 2016 • There are multiple ways to capture intent. (sensors, cameras, location, et. al.) voice query: intent = speech-to-text + tone + location + camera? + ??? keyboard query: intent = keywords + (maybe) personalization
12. Community #hackference OCT 21 2016 • Voice is conversational. (stateful, progressive) Voice query refinement Keyboard query refinement is there anything to eat around here I found 4 restaurants that match... who has the best thai food Top result does not fit your budget. fine then, the cheapest thai food?
13. Community #hackference OCT 21 2016 HOW CAN DEVELOPERS PREPARE FOR VOICE?
14. Community #hackference OCT 21 2016 Start hacking ! Amazon Alexa Oct. 2016: >1000 Skills (Amazon selling more Echoes than Kindles now) In-depth Alexa Tutorial
15. Community #hackference OCT 21 2016 See you at the hackathon! josh@algolia.com