Shivam Singh
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AI Form Generator: Describe the Form Out Loud, Get a Draft, Then Fix the Wording
An AI form generator drafts fields in seconds, but wording still decides answers: one clause cut support from 68% to 43% in a Pew poll. 10 prompts to copy.
Shivam Singh · 16 min readProduct notes
Audio Questions in Forms: Record the Question in Your Own Voice, and Know When Not To
Audio questions tripled some sensitive reports in a 1998 trial, but privacy did most of the work. When a spoken prompt helps and which tools support it.
Shivam Singh · 18 min readProduct notes
Branded Forms: Put Your Logo and Colours on Every Form, Then Keep the Design Plain
Removing a form builder's branding is a paid feature on 4 of 5 major tools we checked. What branded forms change for respondents, and what a logo can't do.
Shivam Singh · 15 min readSpeech data
How to Build a Speech Dataset for ASR: Scripts, Recording Specs and QC That Hold Up
IndicVoices asked every speaker for 20 minutes and checked every clip by ear. A method for ASR dataset collection: scripts, consent, specs, QC and WER.
Shivam Singh · 14 min readVoice surveys
Can Google Forms Record Audio? No. Here Are 3 Workarounds That Actually Work
Google Forms has 12 question types and none records audio. 3 workarounds for voice answers, compared on steps, sign-in, phone support and cost, as of 2026.
Shivam Singh · 14 min readSpeech data
Code-Switching in Indian Voice Data: What 2,731 Scripts and 805 Typed Answers Show
90% of 2,185 Indian-language reading scripts on our platform mixed in English words, and 47% of Hindi transcriptions were typed in Latin letters. What it means.
Shivam Singh · 13 min readVoice surveys
How to Collect Voice Recordings Online From Many People, With Just a Link
Browser recording works for 96.72% of web users, so you can collect voice recordings online from a link. Consent wording, formats, storage and file naming.
Shivam Singh · 18 min readProduct notes
Conditional Logic in Forms: Branch After the Section, Not After Every Question
Conditional logic in forms: skip logic vs branching vs display logic, 6 worked section-branching examples, and why a 30-minute survey loses more people.
Shivam Singh · 17 min readCustomer research
Field Research Forms: Interviews Without Pen and Paper, and When to Use Our Rivals
Only 39% of Indian women use mobile internet, so field forms must work offline or with an enumerator. KoBo, ODK, SurveyCTO, Google Forms and WYR compared.
Shivam Singh · 14 min readProduct notes
Form Builder API: Push Submissions and Read Responses From Your Own App
Google Forms' API has 0 methods to create a response. How a form builder API with per-form keys lets your app push submissions, read approved ones and moderate.
Shivam Singh · 14 min readVoice surveys
Form Drop-Off by Question Type: 30% of Quitters Left at the First Voice Question
On an 18-question form, 16% of people who reached the first voice question quit there, and 14% quit at a file upload. Taps and short text lost under 1% each.
Shivam Singh · 13 min readProduct notes
Form Responses to Google Sheets, With Voice Answers You Can Play From a Cell
Send form responses to Google Sheets 3 ways: native sync, Zapier-style connectors or CSV export. The limits, API quotas, and how audio answers fit in a cell.
Shivam Singh · 14 min readVoice surveys
Multilingual Forms: Let People Answer in Hindi, Tamil or Any Language They Think In
Only 43.63% of Indians have Hindi as a mother tongue, and far fewer type it well. Three ways to run a multilingual survey: translate, any script, or voice.
Shivam Singh · 16 min readHiring & screening
Online Speaking Test: How to Assess Spoken Language Skills With a CEFR Rubric
IELTS Speaking takes 11 to 14 minutes with an examiner. How to run a low-stakes online speaking test with a CEFR rubric, and when you need a certified test.
Shivam Singh · 16 min readProduct notes
QR Code Forms: Print One Code, Collect Voice Answers at Events With No Sign-In
A QR code survey at an event needs a 4-module quiet zone, dark-on-light print and no sign-in wall. A printing checklist, plus what anonymous answers cost you.
Shivam Singh · 18 min readSpeech data
Speech Data Collection Tools Compared: Common Voice Has Just 16 Validated Hours of Hindi
Common Voice holds 29,295 validated hours, but only 16 in Hindi. We compare Common Voice, Karya, Appen, Defined.ai and web forms for collecting speech data.
Shivam Singh · 14 min readCustomer research
If Your Respondents Can't Type, Your Form Is Broken: Surveys for Low-Literacy Audiences
Nearly 30% of rural Indian women aged 7+ can't read a simple message. Compare CAPI, IVR, audio self-interviews and voice web forms for low-literacy surveys.
Shivam Singh · 15 min readVoice surveys
How Long Do People Talk When a Form Asks a Question? A Median of 38 Seconds
We measured 396 voice answers: a median of 38 seconds for an English open question, 62 in people's own language, and 10 for reading a sentence aloud.
Shivam Singh · 13 min readVoice surveys
Voice vs Text Questions: Which Gets Skipped More? The Bigger Leak Was Lost Recordings
Optional typed questions were left blank 6.5% to 9.8% of the time on our forms. Required voice answers went missing 11.6% of the time, until we fixed uploads.
Shivam Singh · 14 min readVoice surveys
We Analysed 6,274 Voice Answers. 71% Were People Reading Scripts Aloud
71% of 6,274 voice answers on our form builder were script reading, not opinions. What our data can say about voice vs typed answers, and what it can't.
Shivam Singh · 14 min read