Developing a voice AI app in Rails for drive-through ordering

If you attended the live coding session last week with Chad Pytel and Svenja Schäfer you are probably familiar with the favourite thoughtbot fast food restaurant: Dinorex. If you missed it, you can watch the recording on YouTube. In this post, we will explore some of the technical details of this proof of concept, and add two fun features. First we will add the transcription of what the assistant is saying to the screen, and then we will get our assistant to greet the user as soon as we click the start button.