Voice commands for orders

Start voice mode

Click the waveform on Aria's button in the lower right corner, or the waveform beside her text box. The first time, your browser asks to use the microphone; allow it. Aria's panel shows a wave and Listening…

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How a voice conversation works

1. Say it and pauseSpeak normally, then stop. Aria sends what she heard once you pause. The status reads Thinking… while she works.
2. She answers out loudThen she listens again, so you can carry straight on. In voice mode she keeps to a sentence or two; ask for the detail when you want it. Order, garment and fabric numbers are read a character at a time, in groups of three: order 722259 is “seven two two, two five nine”, and fabric 25162-7a is “two five one, six two, dash seven A”.
3. Interrupt any timeWhile Aria is answering, the status reads Talk to interrupt. Start speaking and the answer pauses so Aria can listen.
4. Answer her questions by name or numberWhen she asks you to choose, she reads the choices out. Say the choice, the first words of it, or its number: Black Label, or the second one. If your answer matches none of them, she says so and asks once more.
5. FinishClick Exit voice mode. Everything that was said is in the chat.

Finding orders and garments

Name the customer or the order number. On an order or customer's page, this order and this customer mean the one on screen.

• “What's on James Carter's last order?”The garments on his most recent order, with their status.
• “Show me order 2265.”The order as a card under her answer. Click it to open the order.
• “When is the Carter suit due?”The garment's need-by dates and where it is now.
• “What's due this week?”Customer and retailer need-by dates, shipping dates and alterations due, soonest first. Ask for a month, next week or what is overdue the same way.
• “What was received at the store this week?”Orders whose garments moved into that status in the period you name.
• “Find Jon Tailor.”If nobody in the store has the name as she heard it, Aria takes the one customer it sounds like and says their name. When it could be several (John Taylor, Jon Taylor) she offers them, instead of offering to add someone new.
• “Has the fabric for order 2265 been ordered?”The fabric purchase orders for it, and whether they have been sent to the supplier.

New orders and garments

Say who it is for and what garments. If you are on the customer's page, you do not need their name. Aria creates the order as you, adds the garments, and opens it.

• “Start a new order for James Carter with a 2 piece suit and a shirt.”A new order with those garments. If more than one manufacturer makes a garment, she asks which; say the manufacturer in the request to skip the question.
• “New order with a 3 piece suit from Black Label, notch lapel template.”Names the manufacturer and the style template up front. Templates go on one per part of the garment.
• “New order.”On a customer's page, an empty order for that customer, opened for you. Then say what to add to it: add a 2 piece suit.
• “Add a shirt to this order.”Adds garments to the order on screen, or to the order you name.
• “Reorder the navy suit from his last order.”A copy of that garment's design on a new order. The fabric is left for you to choose.
• “Add a new customer, Daniel Ruiz.”Adds the customer with that first and last name. If someone with a similar name is already in the store, she tells you who and asks before adding anyone.

Name garments the way you do in the shop. Pants and slacks are trousers, a waistcoat is a vest, and a blazer or sports coat is a jacket, unless your store has its own garment type by that name. If no manufacturer in your store makes what you asked for, Aria asks which of your garment types you mean.

Changing garments on an order

These make the same changes as the order page. Name one garment (the jacket, the shirts) or the whole order. When the order has more than one of a type, put the manufacturer in front, as the garment's card shows it: the YongZheng jacket. Aria makes the change without asking you to confirm, says what she did, and refreshes the order.

• “Mark the whole order as a rush.”Rush on every garment, like the order page's Update All.
• “Set the customer need-by date on the suit to October 20.”Works for the retailer need-by date too. A day without a month (the twentieth) means the next one coming, and a date without a year its next occurrence.
• “Change the quantity of the shirts to 3.”The quantity on those garments.
• “Set the price of the jacket to 1,200 dollars.”The price on that garment.
• “Move the suit to In Production.”The garment's status, by your store's own status names. Change all the statuses to Picked Up does the whole order. Say a status your store does not have and Aria asks which one you mean rather than guess.
• “Ship the suit to the customer.”Turns on ship to customer.
• “Mark the trousers as a remake.”Marks that garment as a remake.

Say only what you want changed. Several changes can go in one request: rush the suit and set the price to 1,200.

Fabric

• “Set the fabric on the suit to D A P 2 3 6 9 from Dormeuil.”The fabric number and supplier of the garment's fabric, saved straight away. A fabric number read out in pieces (“D A P, 2, 3, 6, 9”) is put back together as one code.
• “Change the fabric supplier to Holland and Sherry.”Just the supplier. It has to be one of the garment's suppliers. If what you said sounds like one of them, she picks that one.
• “Rush the jacket and change its fabric to 15464.”A fabric change can go in with other garment changes.

Style templates and try-on sizes

For a garment that is already on the order.

• “Apply the 2 button notch lapel template to the suit.”Applies it at once and says The 2 Button Notch Lapel template has been applied to the Black Label 2 Piece Suit. Name the template the way it is named in your style templates. A name that sounds like one of yours is taken, as long as its numbers match: two button never becomes a 3 button template.
• “Apply a 40 regular try-on size to the suit.”The size goes on the part of the suit that has try-on sizes. If the jacket and the trousers both have them, she asks which part it is for.
• “40 reg jacket, 34 trousers.”A size for each part in one go. Say the number then the length (42 reg, 40 long), or the size's own name as it appears in the Try-On Size menu.

Pants, pant, slacks and trousers all mean the same part, whatever your manufacturer calls it. If a part has no try-on sizes, Aria says so and still applies the rest.

Taking notes

Notes go on the order's Notes: the Order Notes, or the customer's Style Preferences and Wish List. Aria opens the order on that tab and shows Note taking mode.

1. StartSay add an order note, take notes on the wish list or add to the customer's style preferences. Aria says Speak to add notes, then say done when finished.
2. TalkEach thing you say goes in as a sentence, quietly, with no reply from Aria in between.
3. Switch tabsSay the name of another tab on its own: switch to the wish list, customer wish list, style preferences or order notes. Aria saves what you said so far and carries on in the new tab: Saved. On to the wish list.
4. FinishSay done (or that's all, or stop). Aria says Note saved.

To add one note in one breath, say it with the request: add an order note: wedding on June 5. It goes straight in.

Measurements

Ask Aria to open the measurements for the jacket, or open them yourself with Aria open. Her panel shows Measurement editing mode. When nothing is measured yet she offers: To run through the measurements together, say 'begin', or just read the name of the measurement you want to edit.

Moving around the form

• “Begin”Starts at the first empty measurement and asks for it by name.
• “Chest” / “go to the waist”Goes to that measurement, like clicking it. Works for any field on the form, and for a name speech misheard: soldier is the shoulder, waste the waist, in seam the inseam.
• “Next” / “move on”The next field down the list.
• “Previous” / “back” / “last”The field before.
• “Back two” / “forward three”Moves that many fields.
• “Skip”On to the next field in the list, filled in or not. Pass and leave it blank do the same.
• “Repeat” / “say that again”Asks for the current field again.
• “What are the options?”Reads the choices of the field you are on: The options for Lapel are Notch, Peak or Shawl.
• “What did I put for chest?”Says what a field holds, or that it is empty, without moving you.
• “Clear” / “delete that”Empties the measurement or text field you are on. Height, weight, try-on adjustments, allowances and choices are not emptied this way: say the new value instead.
• “Stop” / “pause”Pauses the run-through. Say begin to carry on.
• “What's left?” / “show me required fields”Turns on the form's required fields view and says which are still to fill.
• “Done”Closes the measurements, as the Done button does.

Saying the values

Say the value for the field you are on. A soft ding means it went in, and a bar across the notice counts down three seconds. Say another value in that time to correct it; after it, Aria moves to the next field in the list by herself, whatever kind of field it is. A pause in the middle of a number is fine: 42, then and a half a moment later, goes in as 42 and a half.

• “42 and a half” / “32 and five eighths” / “forty two and a half”Numbers in halves, quarters and eighths, the way a tailor says them, in figures or in words. Make that 42 and 42 inches go in as 42.
• “16, no, 16 and a half”A correction mid-sentence: the last value counts.
• “5 11” / “five nine” / “180 cm” / “82 kilos”Height as feet and inches, said in figures or words (five eleven is 5' 11"), or in centimetres with “cm”; weight in pounds, or in kilos when you say so. In a store that measures in centimetres, a plain number is centimetres or kilos.
• “Erect” / “2”A choice by its name, the first words of it, or the number shown beside it in voice mode. A name speech misheard counts as the choice it sounds like: peek is Peak.
• “Yes” / “no”For a yes or no field. Yeah, yep, nope and the like work too.
• “Flap and ticket”Several choices at once, on a field that takes more than one.
• “Plus a half” / “minus a quarter” / “no change”A try-on adjustment. A plain number (40 and a half) is taken as the finished measurement and the adjustment worked out for you.
• “42” / “plus 2” / “42 plus 2”An allowance field: the measurement, the allowance, or both.
• “Search for 8354”Types into the Search box over the field's choices. Clear the search empties it.

Aria stops on every field in turn, text fields and photos included. On a text field, such as the notes, say the words and she types them in, then say next to go on. Photos and dates are left to you: fill them in on screen, or say skip.

Style options

Open the style for the suit opens the garment's style options, and Aria's panel shows Style editing mode. The same commands work as in the measurements: say an option's name or number, a field's name to go to it, next, previous, search for, what's left? and done. The fabric fields come in their order too: after you name the supplier, the countdown takes you to the next fabric field, usually the fabric number. Say it and she types it in, then say next for the description. The length and the image are yours to fill in on screen.

Good to know

• Names that sound alikeSpeech often mishears names, Italian, French, Spanish and Chinese ones most of all. When what you said sounds like a manufacturer, supplier, option or template she can see, Aria takes that one: “door may” is Dormeuil, and “the youngsang jacket” is the YongZheng jacket on the order. A customer's name works the same way when only one customer sounds like it; when several do, she offers them. She always says what she did, so listen to her answer and look at the order before it goes out.
• When she did not catch itSomething that fits nothing in front of her, often a word speech misheard, gets Sorry, I didn't catch that. and nothing changes. On a form she also tells you which field you are on. Say it again.
• If something goes wrongWhen an answer fails or takes longer than 30 seconds, a low tone plays and voice mode gives way to the chat, with Something went wrong. Please try again. and a Retry button.
• Spoken answers use creditsWhat Aria reads aloud uses credits on top of the question, so longer answers use more. Long answers are read up to a natural break, and the rest stays in the chat.
• BrowsersVoice mode works in Chrome, Edge and Safari. Firefox cannot listen, so the voice buttons do not show there.

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