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The skill that reads fairy tales to a child before bedtime

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Main information

Client

Large Russian baby food brand

Auditory

Children and their parents.

Task

Develop a skill for a voice assistant who will tell popular children's audio stories.

Skill purpose

The voice assistant can read fairy tales and call the child
by name.

Development process

Making edits.
We launch the project

Conduct UK testing using thirty people

Conduct extensive testing among the client's team

Vocalizing the project. We were present at the dubbing of the project

Coming up with the concept, designing game mechanics

We studied and recieved material from the client

Scheme of work

Ask the voice assistant to play bedtime fairy tales

State the name of the child.

Choose a fairy tale.

The skills responds to the previously specified name upon re-entery

The skill will simpy use «baby» if it does not recognize a name

What the skill looks like

The skill is getting to know the child.

Offers fairy tales to choose from.

Tells an audio tale.

Difficulties of the project

Problem

Decision

Unfortunately, due to the peculiarity of Google Assistant, the voice command did not always bring up our application.

We made the application on Google engine, Dialog Flow, rather than zDialog

Problem

At frist, the skill would ask the child questions for a interactive experrience and determine when a child was reaedy to go to sleep.

Decision

We decided to keep the skill in just a audio fairy tale format despite not have any technical difficulties

Quote

«Probably, it was necessary to position the application differently - not bedtime stories, but breakfast stories, for example. Then more interactive elements could be used»

«Наверное, надо было по‑другому позиционировать приложение — не сказки на ночь, а сказки за завтраком, например.
Тогда можно было бы использовать больше
интерактивных элементов»

Some statistics

5k - 6k

users

Monthly audience use of the skill

10k

users

during peak usage (March 2018)

Interesting fact

Our fairy tales where recognized as the fastest growing skill inside Russian Google assistant

Testing method

First, we made a controlled test for 100 users

Collected feedback from small traffic, made edits.

Decided to stick with simpler mechanics.

Got the word out and the traffic started to flow. We recieved several complaints that children couldn't fall asleep because the interaction was too exciting

Conducted UX testing and made further improvemnets

Ran testing on various devices and resolved previously unnoticed problems in the assistant itself