Voice trends and search

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

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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
   

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   IS VOICE HERE YET?
   

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   35x VOICE
   SEARCH QUERY
   GROWTH
   Data from Google trends for
   searches likely to be voice
   commands (neat trick)
   Sorry Dads
   

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   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
   

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   VOICE ADOPTION
   DRIVEN BY
   HANDS-FREE &
   VISION-FREE
   INTERACTION
   Car & Home & VR/AR
   12% adopt voice
   search to avoid
   confusing menus :)
   

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   VOICE ADOPTION DRIVEN BY
   TECHNOLOGY IMPROVEMENTS
   source: 2016 KPCB Internet Trends Report
   

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   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”
   

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   SEARCHES DONE BY
   VOICE OR IMAGE
   BY 2020
   50%
   

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   HOW DOES VOICE
   CHANGE SEARCH?
   

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    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”
    

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    ● 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
    

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    ● 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?
    

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13. Community
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    HOW CAN DEVELOPERS
    PREPARE FOR VOICE?
    

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14. Community
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    Start hacking !
    Amazon Alexa
    Oct. 2016: >1000 Skills
    (Amazon selling more Echoes
    than Kindles now)
    In-depth Alexa Tutorial
    

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15. Community
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    See you at the
    hackathon!
    josh@algolia.com
    

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