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Building a voice-powered e-commerce shopping assistant

DEV Community·Mart Schweiger·20 days ago
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Voice shopping has crossed an inflection point. Search by typing is being replaced by search by saying—"show me waterproof hiking boots under $150 in size 10," "add the second one to my cart," "what's the return policy on these." For e-commerce teams, that's both an opportunity and a problem: the existing product search and checkout flow was designed for clicks and keystrokes, not natural language. This tutorial walks through building a voice-powered shopping assistant that customers can actually talk to. By the end, you'll have a Python voice agent that handles four real shopping workflows—product search, add-to-cart, order tracking, and checkout assistance—all on top of a single WebSocket connection using AssemblyAI's Voice Agent API. The same pattern works whether you're embedding voice into a mobile shopping app, an in-store kiosk, a smart speaker integration, or a phone-based ordering line.…

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