Liv Artificial Intelligence uses deep learning to create a one-of-its-kind Speech Recognition and Natural Language understanding systems for Indian languages. Below are snapshots of the website, which has been recently revamped following a change in direction.
The technology recognises keywords in the sentences made in normal conversation and presents the output in the form of commands such as setting a reminder for a meeting, or even booking a cab. A regular personal assistant, made more useful for people (in India, specifically) that have an inability to use or communicate with their smartphones.
Speech-powered demo app: Chat
The demo version of the customer pilot app enables the user to speak into the device to get a speech-to-text output. Transcription the back-end allows the user to deliver it in the their desired language (9 Indian languages, including Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Marathi, Gujarati and English). This text is editable at any point, and the user has the ability to stop the transcription process if s/he requires - mostly due to slow internet in most parts of India.
WIP: Dashboard for testers to submit the closest regional language version of the corresponding english words
Showcasing technology: Android application showcasing transcription accuracy (1 of 2)
A custom keyboard with an option to select the language the user chooses to speak in (2 of 2)
Web app for creating chatbots
Most chatbots in the market are operating with a hybrid model, where they combine the use of NLP and CI to offer the best UX possible. Using these two as the backbone, a dashboard was created to enable the making of a chatbot based on utterances, intents and entities fed into the system. Under development.
For Liv.ai (now with Flipkart).
For Liv.ai (now with Flipkart).
Gappi: Local language speech-to-text transcription for chat
The next step entailed finding an Indian context for the technology, both visually and directionally. Typing is hard, so we aimed to replace the keyboard with a microphone that transcribes the local language and sends it as a chat. Called "Gappi," the hindi word for chat, the Android application is now available in the Playstore for free.
One of the biggest challenges faced during the making of the app was communicating the speech recorder function. While it was intuitive enough to press the big red button on the chat page, the lower education groups found it hard to understand what they needed to do after pressing the speech button. The final iteration on the right-most seemed to finally succeed in getting the point across without having to force a tutorial.
PS - new website in the making following what the product(s) look like right now. Coming soon.
Speech transcription accuracy showcase
