ProtoPie, the award-winning prototyping tool, launches the ability to design voice interactions within digital prototypes. Rather than merely mimicking voice functionality, this new feature from ProtoPie is fully equipped, tapping into the text-to-speech and speech-to-text engines built into a user’s browser or operating system, iOS or Android.
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“With over 70% penetration of smart home speakers in U.S. and European households and roughly 80% of businesses planning to incorporate chatbots this year, the need for UX and UI design tools that can harness the power of voice is growing more pressing. This is evidenced by the fact that the Google Assistant team themselves requested we build out this feature ahead of schedule to meet their own prototyping needs,” said ProtoPie’s Founder & CEO, Tony Kim.
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Jenna Yim, ProtoPie’s Chief Strategy Officer, added “Across the design world, we’re seeing the number of roles for Conversation Designers, VUI Designers and Chatbot Designers swell to over 5.5M this year with over 65,000 vacancies across those roles on LinkedIn. That means there’s an unmet need for designers with this skill set. At ProtoPie, our top priority is to help our users remove any barriers to making their ideas a reality, so we strive to constantly understand and deliver the features that make the biggest difference for the design community. That’s why delivering this latest feature was such a priority for us.”
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