Voice design tips for Engaging Alexa Skills | Learn VUI with VoiceQube

Описание: Vishnu shares his experiences with various clients while designing engaging Alexa skills. He shares the top five suggestions and advises that developers must keep in mind while designing Alexa skills for various use cases.

Alexa Skill design Advice 1 - Never build another IVR system (0:55)

Make sure that your Alexa skill is designed in such a way that it leverages the power of conversation. Don't build another boring IVR system for the users

Alexa Skill Design Advice 2 - Keep your messaging crisp and to the point (4:42)

Don't have lengthy answers in your responses because unlike reading, while listening users cannot comprehend a very long message since they don't have the option to go back and read/lookup.

Alexa Skill Design Advice 3 - Have your signature Voice incorporated (9:15)

The one sure shot way of making your Alexa skill stand out from the rest of the skills is using a custom voice that is recorded either by you or a voice artist. Yes, his increases user engagement due to the presence of emotion and voice modulation that makes sure that the conversation is more natural.

Alexa Skill Design Advice 4 - Keep it Dynamic (11:27)

Make sure that your Alexa responses are not static (within the code). It is very important for you as a developer or a businessman to have control over the responses after the skill goes live as well. For this, use databases and fetch Alexa responses from the databases to make sure that the skill is dynamic. It gives you the opportunity to surprise users with Festive greetings, or new responses from time to time, making it not so monotonous.

Alexa Skill Design Advice 5 - Ambient noise and sounds (15:28)

We as humans have never experienced a conversation without Ambient sounds, music or noise. Some of these sounds are an integral part of human communication. We have used ambient sounds in our Alexa skills in various ways to intuitively communicate a lot of messages. Using these ambient sounds make your Alexa skill more attractive and appealing for the users.

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