The voice-plus solution that we delivered is centered around the GoodNes skill for Amazon Alexa, a virtual cooking assistant that allows users to follow recipes in an easy, step-by-step fashion. For visuals, we created a first-of-its-kind browser-based visual guide.
Users can ask the GoodNes skill for information about a recipe, such as ingredients, utensils needed, nutritional details, or serving sizes. They can easily start making the recipe by following step-by-step cooking instructions and enjoy visual prompts and how-to videos for a richer cooking experience. When the visual guide is not enabled, the skill relies more heavily on voice cues, allowing users without a screen to still follow along.
Our lab team also incorporated mobile and email channels to enhance the voice-plus approach. We built companion cards to display in the Alexa mobile app to provide supplemental visual references and leveraged email to personalize the link between the GoodNes skill and the users’ web browsers as well as provide a way to have the recipe content sent to their inboxes.
