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6 things to keep in mind when designing voice UI

Dec20
by on December 20, 2018 at 7:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Contributors, Design & Dev


When we hear the word ‘interface,’ many of us think about graphical user interface (or GUI). The vast majority of digital products available on the market today have this type of interface. Since GUI is the most familiar type of interfaces to us, we used to think of it as the natural way of interaction with digital products. However, we have a more natural and intuitive form of interaction — voice. Technology has made terrific progress in both ASR (automated speech recognition) and NLU (natural language understanding) in recent users. Voice recognition accuracy has reached 90% or greater. Users quickly…

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6 things to keep in mind when designing voice UI

Dec20
by on December 20, 2018 at 7:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Contributors, Design & Dev


When we hear the word ‘interface,’ many of us think about graphical user interface (or GUI). The vast majority of digital products available on the market today have this type of interface. Since GUI is the most familiar type of interfaces to us, we used to think of it as the natural way of interaction with digital products. However, we have a more natural and intuitive form of interaction — voice. Technology has made terrific progress in both ASR (automated speech recognition) and NLU (natural language understanding) in recent users. Voice recognition accuracy has reached 90% or greater. Users quickly…

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Opinion: If you love Trump you’re duty-bound to help crowdfund the wall

Dec20
by on December 20, 2018 at 6:08 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Opinion


Despite the fact I haven’t announced it on Twitter yet (thus making it an official government document), I’d like to inform everyone that I wholeheartedly support the GoFundMe effort purported to be setup to fund President Trump’s border wall. In fact, I’d like to take my support a step further by saying it’s my opinion that anyone who doesn’t donate to the GoFundMe, which you can find here, doesn’t support our President or his immigration policies. I’ve been campaigning hard for five months to get clean water to Flint, Michigan. That Trump gofundme did $3.5M in three days for a…

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Opinion: If you love Trump you’re duty-bound to help crowdfund the wall

Dec20
by on December 20, 2018 at 6:08 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Opinion


Despite the fact I haven’t announced it on Twitter yet (thus making it an official government document), I’d like to inform everyone that I wholeheartedly support the GoFundMe effort purported to be setup to fund President Trump’s border wall. In fact, I’d like to take my support a step further by saying it’s my opinion that anyone who doesn’t donate to the GoFundMe, which you can find here, doesn’t support our President or his immigration policies. I’ve been campaigning hard for five months to get clean water to Flint, Michigan. That Trump gofundme did $3.5M in three days for a…

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IOTA is dishing out shares of $220K bounty — if you can crack its new hash function

Dec20
by on December 20, 2018 at 3:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


IOTA Foundation, the company wanting to be the cryptocurrency for the Internet-of-Things (IoT), has just launched a new hash function, and it’s dishing out shares of a $220,000 (200,000 euro) bounty to anyone that can crack it. The new hash function, known as Troika, has been designed by cryptographers from cyber security firm, Cybercrypt. IOTA hopes the new hash function will lay the cryptographic and encryption groundwork for what will become the final IOTA protocol for encrypting its distibuted ledger. If you’re not up-to-speed on hash functions, they are basically ways of encrypting and mapping data of varying size to…

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