We're frequently asked by our customers, "How does Slang Retail Assistant compare to Google Voice Search?" so we ran a benchmarking test where we compared their performances. Read this blog post for a quick summary!

How to mitigate challenges in designing software at an early-stage startup

Slang Labs becomes one of the first players in the In-App Voice Assistant space globally to be backed by Google

An In-depth analysis of the performance and end user experience of Flipkart's multilingual Voice Assistant available currently inside their flagship Android app.

How are top brands using Voice Commerce to break the digital barriers for the Next Billion Users.

Slang Voice Search vs Google Voice Search - Which provides the best Voice Search experience for e-commerce apps?

A guide to add voice commands to mobile applications.

An in-depth analysis of voice assistants and search functionalities in JioMart application that aims to improve the shopping experience of users.

The first of 6 blogs where we set the stage for understanding what user research is and why a company like Slang is interested in it.

Why and how we implement a lot of manual work to create the best e-commerce catalog in our domains

How we used a series of caches to decrease inference latencies

An in-depth analysis of how Slang's voice assistant in Udaan app helped them make their app's user experience better for Tier 2, 3 and beyond cities.

The world’s first Voice Assistants as a Service platform.

A case for semi-automated feedback for template improvements

Detail description of the heuristics for the semi-automated feedback system

Taking a snapshot of all the things we achieved in 2020. Evolution to VAaaS, CoVid19 Voice Tracker, marquee customers, bummers along the way, Slang family grew and a crazy webinar. But Dil Maange more? Check out the insights from the voice and eCommerce industry.

Want to build a custom Voice Assistant for your app? Do NOT build one from scratch. It's harder than it looks

Bhārat Bhāṣā Stack will catalyze Voice Assistant and Conversational AI innovations for vernacular Indic languages as India Stack did for FinTech.

An insightful panel discussion on Voice Assistants in eCommerce Apps with the top players of the Ecommerce Industry who have built and added custom voice assistants to their apps.

With our VaaS model built on top of our VAX platform, we provide domain specific voice assistants out of the box, with integration time of just few hours to enable Voice Augmented eXperience in Apps.

This is how we came up and implemented engagement activities at Slang Labs to make long boring meetings, engaging again. How do you bring back the camaraderie, jokes and fun in the virtual meeting? Here is what worked for us.

Go in-depth into understanding how the assistant builder works. Blog 4 of the assistant builder series.

Understand the nuances behind enabling voice search inside Trainman with Slang Travel Assistant, a multilingual accurate in-app voice assistant for travel apps.

Reasons why the Slang's assistant builder is more valuable than packaged solutions or solutions built from scratch. Part 3 of Assistant Builder series.

Using Slang's Assistant is an abstraction over intents and entities, which helps users set up the assistant without needing to understand too many NLP concepts. Part 2 of Slang Assistant blog series.

NLP is a critical component for building voice and conversational assistants. Deconstruct the basic terminologies of NLP in this blog. Part 1 of Slang Assistant blog series.

Voice shopping is here. Many large players like Amazon, Flipkart, Big Basket and Jio have started experimenting with it. Here are the key ways in which e-Commerce players can powering their user's online shopping journey with Voice.

Search is instrumental on the internet. Voice as a medium of interaction with it has grown significantly. Mobile and web apps too have many similar search characteristics, that would benefit from in-app Voice Search and improve overall customer experience.

We created a CoVid19 Dashboard with Voice Search. We made this to make sure emergent users like our parents and relatives can get trustworthy data on CoVid19 via voice in either English or Hindi. This blog describes the idea behind it and the process of creation

An In-depth analysis of the multilingual Voice Assistant inside Amazon's Android app and it's user experience aspects

Design API data model for communicating with the service, object model for the application logic, and storage model for persisting the data.

Learn how to design, implement, test and configure canonical logging across microservices using Python and Tornado web framework.

Learn to implement Tornado HTTP endpoints as a layer on business logic. Tune it to assist debugging, and write unit and integration tests.

On this International Women’s Day, we honour women of Slang who work behind the shadows and keep everyone going.

Evaluate languages and frameworks, learn asyncio and layered design, and setup lint, test, code coverage tooling from the very beginning.

Comparing 9 most prominent alternatives.

Stepping back to look over ourselves. A new roof over our head. An emerging community & more.

This blog is an in-depth analysis of voice assistant functionality in MyJio application and its performance from the lens of Voice Augmented Experience..

Transcriber with PyAudio and DeepSpeech in 66 lines of Python code.

VoiceTech India's aim is to get everyone working in Voice technology in India under one umbrella community called VoiceTech India to grow the Voice Ecosystem in India. An initiative by Slang Labs.

We have some huge product updates - Release of Slang's WebSDK, Improved NLP Engine, Improved Scalability, Multiple Geolocations and Improved Discovery

In this week's 'Voice Search in Mobile Apps', we break down the voice search feature in 'Paytm Travel' section of the Paytm app, owned by One97 Communications.

A collection of resources that you need to get started with learning Android. These resources will help you understand the basic concepts of Android.

An in-depth analysis of voice search functionalities in the YouTube application and its performance from the lens of Voice Augmented Experience.

This blog is an attempt to perform in-depth analysis of voice search functionality in Gaana application and review their overall Voice Search Experience.

Different cultures have a different way in which they use their language, Linguistics highlights these cultural nuances. My key takeaways from Joseph Tyler's talk on linguistics and localization at Voice Summit 2019

My experience and key takeaways attending Voice Summit 2019. Hopefully you will have as much fun reading it as I did attending it :-)

Slang Labs and Srishti Institute of Art and Design jointly carried out User Research to find out -- does Voice Augmented eXperiences actually help the Next Billion Users or emergent users to complete their tasks faster and better.

We have been making a lot of improvements to Slang by continuously releasing new features. Here are some of the cool new features we released in the past three months - New Translucent UI, List Processing and of course Dark Mode.

Being at IO is an immensely rich experience than remotely watching. This is where Giridhar shares his on premise experiences.

Slang Labs visited Redd Experience Design and conducted a workshop on Voice Augmented eXperiences(VAX).

Sharing our experience of participating in HCI (Human Computing Interface) India 2018 conference

Slang had the opportunity to represent industries at large at BHARAT NLP series organized by Niti Aayog and IIC, University of Chicago.

VAX or Voice Augmented eXperience is the concept of augmenting or enhancing an existing experience (usually GUI and/or touch-based app) with voice.

Kumar talks about the magic, if Voice & GUI are brought together in current times.

If Slang sounds interesting to you and you’d like to explore the possibility of adding this support to your application.