Voice Search For WooCommerce

ETHICAL PRIVACY FOCUSED VOICE ASSISTANCE & SEARCH FOR YOUR WEBSITE

This plugin adds voice search features to your website that optimize user experience. Upon installation you’ll be able to choose from 130+ languages we support and instantly add a microphone to every search bar as well as a floating icon to every page or place a microphone widget using Elementor to enable voice search on your WooCommerce shop.

Our service helps you to stay compliant with privacy regulations because we do not store or retain any user generated content or personally identifying information. As one of the earliest members and contributors to The Open Voice Network, a Community of The Linux Foundation, we have made it our goal to deliver services in voice tech that meet even the most demanding standards and guidelines.

This free version of our plugin will only support Chrome browsers and a smaller set our natural language AI service. A license key is not needed for the free version.

An active, valid, and recognized SSL Certificate and HTTPS website are required to use our plugin and services. This is only one small part of how we protect privacy of your visitors and security of your website.

The Pro version available on our website adds support for all modern browsers and platforms as well as our full set of language models. Visit our website for current Pro rates, customization services, and to obtain a license key to unlock the full suite of services this amazing plugin has to offer.

To obtain a valid license key to support all platform and browsers please visit our web page and select a plan that suits your needs.
Simply go to (https://speak2web.com/plugin) and select your plan.

Amazon Web Services:
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speak2web is hosting its cloud services in AWS infrastructure. We are utilizing services such AWS Gateway API, AWS compute Services, AWS storage and AWS database services.
We post data to Amazon Web Services for storing user databases.
[speak2web APIs license activation and acces key generation:] (https://xxxxx.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/V2)
[AWS Services:] (https://aws.amazon.com)
[The AWS privacy terms can be reviewed here:] (https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/)

IBM WATSON Cloud Services:
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speak2web is utilizing the following IBM Cloud Services as part of this plugin:
[IBM STT:] (https://www.ibm.com/watson/services/speech-to-text/)

[The Terms of IBM Cloud Services] (https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/overview/terms-of-use?topic=overview-terms#terms_details)
[IBM Cloud Service Privacy Statement] (https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/overview/terms-of-use?topic=overview-terms#privacy_policy)

Google Cloud Services:
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speak2web is utilizing the following Google API Services as part of this plugin:
[Google STT:] (https://speech.googleapis.com/v1/speech:recognize)

[The Terms of Google Cloud Services] (https://cloud.google.com/terms/)
[Google Cloud Service Privacy Statement] (https://cloud.google.com/terms/cloud-privacy-notice)

PROMOTING ACCESSIBILITY

Speak2web builds with Accessibility in mind and voice is the ultimate tool for usability, ease of access, and speed of service. We’ll help you to deliver enhancements that help you provide a better experience for all users. We are always looking for ongoing accessibility improvements to our plugins as well.

Supported Languages

This plugin supports 130 different languges.
PLEASE MAKE SURE TO SELECT the languge that matches your web page.
Example languages supported:
* English
* German
* Portuguese
* Chinese
* French
* Japanese
* Korean
* Spanish
* Arabic
* Danish
* Dutch
* Norwegian
* Hindi
* Polish
* Russian
* and many more

CLOUD SERVICES USED / CLOUD APIs Called

This plugin accesses a number of cloud services to perform the voice dialog functionality. In general, the API’s accessed are either speak2web cloud services hosted in AWS or IBM Watson Cloud Services.
The detailed privacy implications can be found below.

Cloud Calls Issued by the Plugin

• During Install / Setup –
  The first cloud call will take place when the license key is being entered and activated. This call will invoke a speak2web cloud service to validate the license key and provision cloud resources for the AI
  to be used.

• On loading of the plugin on a page –
  Every time the plugin is loaded onto a page, a call is issued to the a speak2web service (hosted in AWS – AWS – API call to spea2web service) to retrieve a valid token to access IBM cloud services

• when a voice request is being issued –
  When the user clicks the microphone to issue a voice command, additional cloud calls are being placed to IBM Watson Cloud STT to transcribe the recorded audio
  To process the request the plugin will call a speak2web cloud service to process the natural language request and prepare a response.

COMPLIANCE WITH LOCAL LAWS

THE USER OF THIS PLUGIN AND THE ASSOCIATED SERVICE IS RESPONSIBLE TO ENSURE COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE LAWS INCLUDING PRIVACY LAWS.
speak2web is making an effort to ensure privacy of the users of this service. As such, this plugin and the associated service DO NOT correlate IP Addresses or other personal data like browser history etc. to
the transcript of the voice interaction. The speak2web does NOT store voice recordings, but we do retain anonymous transcript of the dialog in logs for a period of time.
More detail about the service utilized and the privacy statements related to these services can be found below.

Terms of Use and usage of 3rd Party Services

This plugin invokes a number of cloud services to perform the speech to text function (STT), analyses natural language requests and perform a natural dialog.
The services are all provided through your speak2web subscription service. By using the speak2web voice dialog-navigation service you also agree to the terms of use and privacy terms of the
following 3rd party services:

Elementor:
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Steps to enable Elementor on voice-seatch-for-woocommerce plugin-

1. In admin page of your website on the left navigation bar-
   Plugins -> Add New and search and install “Elementor Website Builder”

2. Head over to Plugins -> Installed Plugins and activate both the “Elementor Website Builder” and “Voice Search For WooCommerce”.

3. Head over to “Voice Search For WooCommerce” -> Settings and check mark “Enable Elementor” settings.
   (Note – Currently Elementor works conditionally with our flaoting mic widget, if single click is enabled, elementor wont work. This can be changed as per requirements)

4. Now Elementor is active! Go to any page and select option “Edit with Elementor” option. It will open up a widget toolbox on the left side.

5. Search for “Floating Mic Widget” and place it anywhere on the webpage! User can currently customise its color and icon.

speak2web Voice Search Service:
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This plugin requires a subscription to the speak2web [“WP Voice Search Service”] (https://speak2web.com/plugin/#plan)
The subscription give access to the speak2web voice service which is utilizing the 3rd party services listed above.
By subscribing to this service, the user agrees to the privacy terms of speak2web and the 3rd party services listed above.

VOICE RECORDING — CANNOT BE PERSONALLY IDENTFIED:
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The cloud service does stream audio data to the IBM Watson STT service while the recording is active, but we DO NOT keep a copy of the audio recording.
The transcript of the spoken request is being kept in logs for a period of time but CANNOT BE RELATED to the user it came from. The service DOES NOT track IP addressed or other
personally, identifiable data. The transcript remains anonymous in the logs and CAN NOT be associated with the person it came from.

[speak2web terms of use] (https://speak2web.com/voice-dialog-service-terms/)
[speak2web privacy policy] (https://speak2web.com/privacy-policy/)