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Slang Labs Voice Augmented eXperience Pitch Deck
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Kumar Rangarajan
November 21, 2018
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Slang Labs Voice Augmented eXperience Pitch Deck
Kumar Rangarajan
November 21, 2018
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VOICE BASED INTERACTIONS ARE GROWING RAPIDLY
Voice is natural VOICE BASED INTERACTIONS ARE GROWING RAPIDLY
VOICE BASED INTERACTIONS ARE GROWING RAPIDLY Voice breaks down barriers
to entry
VOICE BASED INTERACTIONS ARE GROWING RAPIDLY Voice reduces thought-to-action latency
BUT TODAY’S VOICE INTERFACES ARE MOSTLY VOICE-FIRST
Even while touch based interfaces continue to dominate BUT TODAY’S
VOICE INTERFACES ARE MOSTLY VOICE-FIRST
Like with mobile apps BUT TODAY’S VOICE INTERFACES ARE MOSTLY
VOICE-FIRST
And brands continue to invest heavily in mobile apps BUT
TODAY’S VOICE INTERFACES ARE MOSTLY VOICE-FIRST
BUT, AS APPS GET COMPLEX THEY CAUSE CONGITIVE OVERLOAD
BUT, AS APPS GET COMPLEX THEY CAUSE CONGITIVE OVERLOAD New
users from emerging markets are intimidated
BUT, AS APPS GET COMPLEX THEY CAUSE CONGITIVE OVERLOAD They’re
not comfortable with touch interfaces
BUT, AS APPS GET COMPLEX THEY CAUSE CONGITIVE OVERLOAD They’re
not comfortable reading/writing English
BUT, AS APPS GET COMPLEX THEY CAUSE CONGITIVE OVERLOAD But,
they’re very conversant in their native tongue
HOW CAN BRANDS ADAPT? Lots of users, comfortable with existing
touch-based visual paradigm Emerging users, unfamiliar with touch interfaces and English, but conversant in native tongue
NEXT-GEN UX TOUCH-BASED visual interfaces augmented with VOICE-BASED conversational flows
BUT, BUILDING A VOICE-AUGMENTED TOUCH UI IS HARD
BUT, BUILDING A VOICE-AUGMENTED TOUCH UI IS HARD Both experiences
should co-exist seamlessly & naturally
BUT, BUILDING A VOICE-AUGMENTED TOUCH UI IS HARD Should not
require a complete overhaul of either interface
BUT, BUILDING A VOICE-AUGMENTED TOUCH UI IS HARD Should be
multi-lingual & multi-modal
BUT, BUILDING A VOICE-AUGMENTED TOUCH UI IS HARD Shouldn’t need
expertise in speech, language, or complex programming models
Which is why we built SLANG! A platform for creating
Voice Augmented eXperiences (VAX) for mobile apps
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SLANG in action
Also, how do I integrate my app with Slang?
STEP 1 Create a Slang Buddy in Slang Console Create
an account with Slang Create a Buddy for your app
STEP 2 Configure use cases for voice Configure use cases
Configure trigger phrases
STEP 3 Customize responses Configure responses in different languages Configure
workflows
Integrate with build system Initialize Slang STEP 4 Integrate Slang
with your app
Register handlers for use-case fulfillment STEP 4 Integrate Slang with
your app
Review usage analytics Step 5 View detailed analytics
Step 6 Sit back and see your app fly!
But seriously, what are you REALLY working on?
OFF DEVICE TRAINING ON DEVICE INFERENCE
DESIGN PATTERNS FOR VOICE-AUGMENTED EXPERIENCES
DOMAIN SPECIFIC UNDERSTANDING
APP IN. APP OUT. PLATFORM OPTIMIZATIONS FOR MOBILE DEVELOPERS
OMNIPRESENT DEVICES OMNIPRESENT INTERFACES
OTHER NATURAL INTERFACES
Any customers using you guys yet? WildTrails Beta launched Aug
15th 2018 85 buddies created Active integrations Launched 120+ signups to the platform
WHO ARE YOU, AGAIN? Program Analysis Geeks Previously built compilers,
linkers, profilers, debuggers & similar historical artifacts Developer Tools Builders Co-owned Rational PurifyPlus Bootstrapped Little Eye Labs Machine Learning Practitioners Developed data processing & ML algorithms Currently hacking on ASR and NLP
SATISH GUPTA IIT-Kanpur, MS Research, Amazon, Rational, Ola GIRIDHAR MURTHY
Co-founder Little Eye Labs, Facebook, Apple, Rational KUMAR RANGARAJAN Co-founder Little Eye Labs, Facebook, BlueCoat, S7 Software, Rational, HP
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