VoiceOS Briefing

Mari talks from the Alexa Conference just ahead of presenting at the panel of Podcasting in the age of Alexa at The Alexa Conference, Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A new set of family experiences was announced by Google in their Canadian blog yesterday. Which are they, why it matters at the heart of this episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Amazon announced yesterday their advancements on Varying Speaking Styles with Neural Text-to-Speech. In this episode I talk about synthesized speech before this, why it matters, and what the (not that far) future might look like. This is one of the topics on voice technology I'm most passionated about. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, I talk about the automated virtual assistant and chatbot that the Montgomery County Clerk of Courts Office developed to answer many of the most frequently asked questions received by the Montgomery County Clerk of Courts Office by email and phone. Details on the announcement and of Microsoft cognitive services. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode we have a guest for the first time in the show. Enjoy my conversation with Brendan Roberts about the challenges of selling an AI product to small business and how Aider can help boost your productivity. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

North, a Canadian company introduced their brick and mortar store of smart glasses with Alexa built-in. This is the episode you need to know everything about the announcement. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Survata surveyed 2000 US smart speakers owners and here is the data Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I was at SDC yesterday and saw more of Bixby, here are my takes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Samsung announce yesterday at the Developer Conference in San Francisco that the Bixby platform was open to developers. The Bixby developer Studio was until so far in private beta. We were part of the beta program and created two capsules. Here are the details of the announcement and our capsules! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Mobile Web Index released a report on voice search trends that covers more than voice search. In this episode I talk about the main take aways and future implications from the report. Also, I just make an appearance introducing a guest presenting the content. Enjoy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Alexa everywhere keeps giving on Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For developers and anyone involved in the mobile revolution around 2010, anything that promises to work in different devices seamless is like a dream. That’s what Alexa Presentation Language is seducing us with: build interactive, multimodal Alexa skills and customize them for different Alexa-enabled devices. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Siri made an appearance, briefly, in this episode talking about Siri as an enterprise product, is it, is it not what other questions this might lead us to? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How does the future of forms - including lead forms, government services forms- will look like, how collecting data will change when conversational interfaces are more mainstream among users? This is a question that has been in my head for a few months now. But today's episode is about the present and not the future. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Voice tech presence in the enterprise and predictions realizing after 2 years Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Google announces interactive stories in partnership with Disney Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Google and Expedia new partnership Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Google Translate is available on all Assistant-optimized headphones and Android phones. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Every Thursday 9:50 PT we send the weekly issue of the ultimate newsletter in voice technology. We will soon add an audio version of it as well. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.