Release Notes: Smart Kiosk Assistant#

2026.1.0#

The initial release of Smart Kiosk Assistant marks the launch of a voice-enabled interactive application for retail, QSR, Airlines and other customer-facing environments. The application has the following features:

  • Designed as a conversational AI experience, it enables users to engage naturally through speech and receive intelligent, spoken responses in real time.

  • The platform brings together speech recognition, retrieval-augmented generation, and text-to-speech in a seamless, end-to-end voice interaction flow.

  • With browser-based voice capture and natural audio playback, the experience feels intuitive, responsive, and ready for real-world engagement.

  • Smart Kiosk Assistant grounds every response in an ingestible local knowledge base, helping deliver more relevant, context-aware, and business-specific answers.

  • Its integrated AI stack combines kiosk UI, orchestration, speech-to-text, retrieval, and speech synthesis into a unified deployment-ready application.

  • The experience is further enhanced by built-in visibility into model KPIs and live performance data, including runtime model details and latency metrics.

  • Optimized for local and edge deployment, the application leverages OpenVINO acceleration on Intel hardware for efficient AI inference.

  • Docker Compose packaging and flexible configuration make the solution easy to deploy, adapt, and scale across enterprise environments.

  • This launch establishes Smart Kiosk Assistant as a strong foundation for immersive, intelligent, and voice-first digital engagement experiences.

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