Product · May 08, 2026 · 4 min readAll posts →
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Voice commands, for when your hands are full

Warehouse workers rarely have a free hand. Voice lets operators scan, count, and look things up without putting down what they're carrying.

Watch anyone work a warehouse floor and you'll notice they almost never have a free hand. There's a box, a pallet jack, a ladder rung. Every time the system needs an input, the operator has to set something down, pull out a device, and tap. The friction is small per action and large per shift.

Voice commands remove that. An operator can speak the action instead of stopping to tap it.

What you can say

The same actions available by tap are available by voice: pick, putaway, receive, relocate, count, adjust, ship, return. You can also ask where a product lives, check an order's status, or pull up item details without looking at the screen. The system keeps context — once you've scanned or named an item, a follow-up command knows what you're referring to.

Built for a loud room

General-purpose voice assistants fall apart in a warehouse. Forklifts, conveyors, radio chatter, and a conversation carrying from the next aisle all confuse a model trained on quiet living rooms. We tuned voice recognition for the acoustic reality of a working floor so it holds up under that kind of background noise.

Just as important: when the system isn't sure what it heard, it asks instead of guessing. The cost of a confident wrong action that nobody catches is much higher than the cost of a quick confirmation, so we bias toward confirming.

Voice is optional and per-device. If a particular operator or station works better with scanning alone, that's fine — voice is there for the moments when a free hand is the thing you don't have.