BBC Developing Audio ‘Pilot’ for Voice Devices for Users to Play Story Role
BBC is working on an “original interactive audio drama pilot” for Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant voice devices that lets users “actively” play a role in plots. “We wanted to make it feel like you’re having a genuine, direct interaction…
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with the other characters in the piece,” blogged BBC R&D producer Henry Cooke Wednesday. “We haven’t come across any other interactive stories like this on voice devices, and we’re excited to see how people respond.” BBC R&D built a “story engine” that will allow the pilot to be released “across different voice devices,” he said. “As far as we know, there aren’t many people developing cross-platform voice experiences in this way.”