Health News is a voice app designed for exploring health stories. This voice app showcases some features that can be used to create voice experiences for news and media sites. It was build with the amazing Jovo framework.
The the articles are sourced from the Harvard Health Blog, and all of the text content is analyzed automatically. Here is a post outlining some of the ways a voice app can be used to help blogs, which served as inspiration for voice app.
- Explainable related content, where the voice app can suggest relevant stories and explain how they are related to the original article.
- Ask for an email containing the link to the full story.
- Listen to the latest headlines and choose which story get get more details on.
“Hey Google, Talk to Health News”
“Hey Google, Ask Health News for trending news in health”
“Hey Google, Ask Health News to listen to the latest stories in health”
“Hey Google, Ask Health News to read me the latest health stories”
The voice app was built using the Jovo framework which can be used for creating multimodal apps for Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant.
The first step in creating the experience was analyzing the posts from the Harvard Health Blog. In short, we extracted the entities, concepts, and topics mentioned in each article using IBM Watson. We then used these to create a graph, stored in Neo4j. This graph is then queried to create “explainable” content recommendations.
Check this post out to learn more about the tech we used to create the voice app.
