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Radio hosts are the voice assistant personas of the future #85

Closed rrolfe closed 5 years ago

rrolfe commented 5 years ago

About You

Your Name: Rebecca Rolfe

Twitter handle (optional): N/A, but my site is rebeccarolfe.com

The best way to reach out to you: Email at rrolfe@npr.org

A quick bio: Rebecca worked as a production designer at CNN.com before trying out the west coast tech life at Google. She now focuses on the future of voice assistants at NPR in Washington, DC. She studied visual communication at UNC-Chapel Hill and has a masters in Digital Media from Georgia Tech.

Your Talk

Title: Radio hosts are the voice assistant personas of the future

What your talk is about: Voice designers are told personas are an absolute must for good voice design. If you leave it up to chance, it fractures the experience. But for its early voice projects, NPR didn't have a persona in mind. There's no 'one voice' on NPR; we didn't want to mandate one for voice platforms. That works for awhile, but not forever.

In 2019, NPR re-evaluated its voice flows and conducted research with listeners on preferred phrasing, pitch, and speed of digitized voices. We talked with hosts and considered what voices are missing on air and how to bring that to voice assistants. We will share before and after flows and the process used to help us move closer towards a voice assistant tone that 'sounds' like NPR (without having to build a complex backstory.)

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