A voice assistant is a wonderful thing, it can remind us of appointments, tell us the weather and send us directions. However, using voice for a recipe or cooking guide – presents itself difficulties without a visual aid.
I did however enjoy designing “Cook for Me” because as a voice assistant user myself, I quickly realized that writing out utterances and prompts within Amazon Developer Console proved to be challenging and I’m always up for a challenge.
For starters, as a human, we tend to say a lot more than we should and as a device, it often does not understand what we want.
I often find myself remembering a quarter of what Alexa or Siri just said. Taking those points into consideration, I realized I had to re-adjust my writing within the console.