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, See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Survata surveyed 2000 US smart speakers owners and here is the data See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

I was at SDC yesterday and saw more of Bixby, here are my takes. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Alexa everywhere keeps giving on See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Voice tech presence in the enterprise and predictions realizing after 2 years See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Google announces interactive stories in partnership with Disney See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Google and Expedia new partnership See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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

AppSheet, a service to create mobile apps almost without coding announced last week a new feature that allow creators to add a new user interface that acts like a digital business assistant. In this episode I talk about why this is relevant and the voice dichotomy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On Snapchat and messaging payment patents See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Summarizing the most important announcement for Google Assistant See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hard problems chatbots are solving today, an example See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Latest update of Alexa has children in consideration for responses of hard questions See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What I think about the skills connections available and where I see it impact the most See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Will.I.am smart assistant See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A new web was announced by the creator of the WWW and it has a voice already See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Alexa is getting smarter about sports stats, why do I care, even if I do not like football See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

More enterprise movement with voice tech See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

I’m very passionate about the process of software development and how the process affects the product cycle. I read a blog post about people with physical disabilities using voice tools to program, so I was excited when found this article about the influence of voice technology in software development. Let’s see some of the ways software development is being affected by voice. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Happy Thursday! Today is newsletter day! Every Thursday at 9:50 Pacific Time, our weekly issue is sent to your inbox. It filled with my commentary of the best of the week and stuff I find interesting even if it didn’t make mainstream media in conversational interfaces, voice technologies and voice strategy and branding. If you haven’t subscribed yet do so at voicefirstweekly.com. Alright, moving on to today’s business. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Amazon is the one pushing the most for monetization options. This is not that strange, because Bezos, and by extension, Amazon understand incentives very well. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Salesforce and Apple, Amazon with Microsoft and vendors and Facebook See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It's episode 100!! What a ride, everyday more in love with bringing this episodes to live. Thank all of you who connect and listen. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Presenting the feature and why is a smart play by both companies See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Amazon introduced a set of new Alexa enabled devices and I look a See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Salesforce voice enabled two cents See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

“As a content provider we have no control over this service,”. “We have to actively defend ourselves.” Why, and why Amazon TV voice control is a threat to broadcasters is my take in this episode. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Mitsuku has taken home the Loebner prize 4th times, the international contest for the most human like chatbot. What's behind his success? Tune in ! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Here from Amazon, Samsung and Google to know in which contests you can participate now. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today's episode, I did a compilation of some of the content we have on the show about branding in voice. Enjoy! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

As we continue to live longer and healthier, assisting older adults is one of the ways companies can leverage voice technology to provide better care. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A little of paradigm shifts See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Following our the revolution will be synthesized episode, we present a first look See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Reflecting on a post by Google Head of Design Outreach See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

I have said voice platforms is about creatives and i have said the key are the developers, in this episode I make up my mind! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A question asked in Instagram and this is my (short) take on it See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Do you know how Alexa and Siri decides which website to pull when they are asked a question? Some tips to optimize your site for it from research agency iProspect. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today, I want to focus on the strong stance Chinese companies have on voice technology and smart assistants and how they are driving a low cost smart assistant market. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this one we continue comparing cognitive and we close comparing Amazon AWS and Google Cloud language and speech API offerings. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.