However, the low numbers clearly didn't indicate the eventual demise of voice assistants or
of voice apps in general.
While having over a million use cases is no doubt based in fact, it does not point to a sudden rush
of voice app developer support for the platform.
This match is accomplished through a
combination of voice app user experience design, a purpose - built knowledge graph of financial product offerings, and machine learning.
That means developers can make voice apps for the intelligent assistant used by 145 million monthly active users, and an initial
group of voice apps is also now available.
But until now, developers have not had any tools they could take advantage of that put them more in
control of their voice app's business model.
User behavior is still being shaped around these devices and more usage of the platforms will lead to more regular
usage of voice apps.
The startup isn't charging for its service yet, because developers currently don't have a way to make money
off of their voice apps.
Either way if you want to stay on the cutting edge
of voice apps for BlackBerry 10 you may want to give VIKI a shot for $ 3.99 in BlackBerry World.
The Actions on Google platform for the
creation of voice apps will be available outside the U.S. later this year as it expands to France, Canada, Australia, Germany, and Japan.
Despite the slower growth for Alexa skills in the UK and German markets, the
number of voice apps available for Google Assistant is still behind.
If the number
of voice apps available for Alexa and Google Assistant are an indication of enthusiasm, Google could have a hard time increasing its market share.
In less than a year, Volley has amassed an audience north of 500,000 monthly active users across its
suite of voice apps, and has been growing that active base of users at 50 to 70 percent month - over-month.
As was mentioned earlier, the Google Assistant third - party
ecosystem of voice apps is still relatively new, with roughly 250 actions.
The company recently announced a voice app self - service publishing solution for radio stations, claims
hundreds of voice apps customers and has worked with leading brands like Progressive.
The
lack of voice apps for Cortana compared to Amazon and Google is an issue, but the bigger problem may be the absence of an entry - level smart speaker device with a low price point.
If Google can make it easier for some existing English - language apps to become available in other languages, it could lead to more rapid
population of voice apps in regional stores (i.e. skill stores in Alexa parlance).
Hicham Tahiri: While developing Smartly AI in Europe we discovered that many companies were not aware of the
basics of voice apps.
Monetization and notifications are features that can be applied to a wide
variety of voice apps whereas the Google Assistant Media Response API is designed to enable entirely new content experiences.
«XAPPmedia was the clear choice... given the company's expertise in Voice and AI technologies, strong relationships with radio broadcasters, and the XAPPmedia One Voice AI ™ SaaS platform that automates deployment and
management of voice apps for Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and Microsoft Cortana.»
A new report by an analytics startup has recently been released, showing a bleak
picture of voice app retention for Amazon's Alexa and Google's Assistant platform.
But software developers
of voice apps currently get limited usage data from Amazon and Google, leaving an opening for an analytics service.
However, once you open the Google Assistant app, it provides a strong conversational search capability and access to browse the current
list of voice apps for use on Google Home and Assistant.
This will allow for the
creation of voice apps — «Skills» on the Alexa platform — where developers can control the pronunciation, intonation, timing and emotion of their Skill's text responses.
The Games & Fun Google Assistant app category is by far the largest at 27.4 %
of all voice apps.