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Process Modeling Meets Voice Interaction <\/strong>Talking for Modeling Processes<\/p>\n\n

“Alexa, turn on Netflix”.<\/em><\/p>\n\n

Nowadays, anyone, even with no technical skills, can talk to an intelligent voice assistant and feel like technology is part of their lives. Assistants like Alexa are able to play music, provide information, deliver news and sports scores, tell you the weather, control your smart home and also order products online.<\/p>\n\n

There are two main factors contributing to the success of companies like Amazon in our daily life. On one hand, coverage<\/em>: they provide a new paradigm of interaction easily performed by anyone, no matter their age, race or religion. On the other hand, predictivity<\/em>: one can anticipate the speech recognition of pre-defined sentences, and plan ahead the expected reaction. These reactions do not need to be simple; for instance, sentences like “Alexa, play Nothing else matters<\/em>“, “Alexa, ask Uber to request a ride”,<\/em> or “Alexa, turn on the light<\/em>“, will generate very different reactions.<\/p>\n\n

In the 1968’s Stanley Kubrick’s movie “2001: A Space Odyssey”, Dave interacts fluently with HAL 9000, and the computer is able to reason and react accordingly (sometimes in a way that it does not follow Dave’s intentions). I remember the first time I watched Kubrick’s movie – it was mid nineties – , I was sure that the technology in the future would be like this. But so far, it seems current human-machine voice interaction technology has not reached Kubrick’s expectations yet.<\/p>\n\n

There is still a long way to go before having a computer with fully gadgetless interaction capabilities like HAL 9000. Nevertheless, it is time for enabling voice interaction beyond leisure applications. At Process Talks, we have developed a process modeling platform that, in addition to other fresh functionalities, allows the modeler to model just by speaking their intentions to our voice assistant. See this video where we show how easy it is to use voice interaction in Process Talks:<\/p>\n\n