Symphoni Overview
Symphoni is a Unity 3D, Conversational application that provides Voice Assistants for navigating the Spotify catalogs. Symponi is built using a Dialogflow V2 c# Unity singleton.
Symphoni Voice Navigation
Symphoni Voice Navigation Finds Categories, Playlists, Tracks and Starts/Stops Music, Answers Questions, Displays Data, Shows Top lists, etc. all using just your voice. That is the design goal of Symphoni. The video to the right is a short example of how to navigate. Remember, Google’s Dialogflow uses artificial intelligence to try to determine your intention.
For Example, to play a track – you can say any of the following. “Play Track”, “Play”, “Play Song”, “Please Play”,….. .
Simple Symphoni Navigation using Voice
Symphoni Voice Search
Symphoni Voice Search is capable of searching through Albums, Playlists, Artists and Events (Eventbrite only at this time). Symphoni also learns from the searches and can make intelligent suggestions based on other searches. The Video to the right will demonstrate a simple “Music Search” resulting in playing a track from a very specific album.
Simple Symphoni Search using Voice
Symphoni uses a Built-In Spotify Knowledge Base
Symphoni uses Dialogflow’s Knowledge Base to make Spotify information accessible with just your voice.
Learn fun facts about Spotify, Playlists, Tracks, Albums,… History, News, etc. Just ask Symphoni.
Symphoni and a Spotify Knowledge Base
Symphoni (and Dialogflow) in Augmented Reality
Symphoni operates on both Augmented and Mixed Reality Platforms.
It is in these platforms where “Hands Free” becomes important. Symphoni implements Voice using Dialogflow, so the user can keep his/her hands free to deal with objects in the real world. Furthermore, Symphoni can be called to “Appear” and “Hide” in 3D space so not to clutter the real world with virtual objects. Just call Symphoni select a playlist and just ask her to “Hide”. You can call her back if needed.
Symphoni and Dialogflow in Augmented Reality
Advantages of Symphoni
- Symphoni operates on 28 different hardware platforms and Facebook Metaverse. Scales to the Platform. For example, in WebGL in a browser, Symphoni can’t find a reliable microphone so it operates using just Raycast. Point and Click to interact with Symphoni.
- Symphoni is Conversation Driven with Googles’ Dialogflow Voice Agent which has a number of benefits. 1) “Hands-Free” for multi-tasking (.e.g. an Automotive Diagnostic App) 2) Intuitive and Easy to use – just ask for what you are looking for and Symphoni will find it. 3) Provides access for individuals with special needs or is disabled.
- Symphoni is an App/Game but it is also a Prefab. This means Symphoni can be easily inserted into other Games like Phased, Team17, Valorant, Space Ape, Rodeo Stampede,…. . Or Any of the non-game Unity Applications for Construction, Automotive, Transportation, Film or Education.
- Symphoni has lots of Voice Accessible Knowledge about Spotify, Music, Events,.. . Symphoni fills the Dialogflow Knowledgebase lots of interesting data regarding a range of different topics (including herself). All easily and seamlessly accessed by just using your voice.