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Paul Cutsinger is the director of Nvidia Omniverse Exchange, a platform for building simulation and metaverse environments. He discusses how companies are using Omniverse to simulate operations to improve efficiency and reduce operational risk, in addition to capabilities around metaverse and virtual human development. Prior to Nvidia, Paul ran developer education and evangelism programs for Amazon Alexa, worked on the Amazon App store, in gaming at Disney, and with browsers at Microsoft. He will be a featured speaker at Synthedia, the synthetic media conference, in September 2022. Synthedia is online and free to attend. Register here: https://bit.ly/synthedia-rising
In the second episode of this two-part conversation, Dave and Emily chat with Paul Cutsinger, Head of Developer Strategy at Amazon. Paul discusses how AWS has been a foundation for developers building on Alexa, and what the future of the voice spaces holds for daily interaction with the technology in our lives. Paul on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PaulCutsinger Paul on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulcutsinger/ Alexa Skills Developer Portal: https://developer.amazon.com Alexa Blueprints: https://blueprints.amazon.com Amazon Polly: https://aws.amazon.com/polly/ ----------- Connect with Us on Twitter: Emily on Twitter: https://twitter.com/editingemily Dave on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thedavedev Subscribe: Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/f8bf7630-2521-4b40-be90-c46a9222c159/aws-developers-podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aws-developers-podcast/id1574162669 Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zb3VuZGNsb3VkLmNvbS91c2Vycy9zb3VuZGNsb3VkOnVzZXJzOjk5NDM2MzU0OS9zb3VuZHMucnNz Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7rQjgnBvuyr18K03tnEHBI TuneIn: https://tunein.com/podcasts/Technology-Podcasts/AWS-Developers-Podcast-p1461814/ RSS Feed: https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:994363549/sounds.rss
In this episode Dave and Emily chat with Paul Cutsinger, Head of Developer Strategy at Alexa. Paul joined the Alexa team in the very early years, lead the worldwide developer education team, and helped mold the vision for the developer roadmap. In his current role, Paul leads an incubation team working on new ways for customers to interact with Alexa and Voice. Paul discusses how AWS has been a foundation for developers building on Alexa and how simple it is for anyone to get started building their own experiences today. Paul on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PaulCutsinger Paul on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulcutsinger/ Alexa Skills Developer Portal: https://developer.amazon.com Alexa Blueprints: https://blueprints.amazon.com Amazon Polly: https://aws.amazon.com/polly/ New for AWS CloudFormation – Quickly Retry Stack Operations from the Point of Failure: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-aws-cloudformation-quickly-retry-stack-operations-from-the-point-of-failure/ ----------- Connect with Us on Twitter: Emily on Twitter: https://twitter.com/editingemily Dave on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thedavedev Subscribe: Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/f8bf7630-2521-4b40-be90-c46a9222c159/aws-developers-podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aws-developers-podcast/id1574162669 Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zb3VuZGNsb3VkLmNvbS91c2Vycy9zb3VuZGNsb3VkOnVzZXJzOjk5NDM2MzU0OS9zb3VuZHMucnNz Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7rQjgnBvuyr18K03tnEHBI TuneIn: https://tunein.com/podcasts/Technology-Podcasts/AWS-Developers-Podcast-p1461814/ RSS Feed: https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:994363549/sounds.rss
After covering the top new Alexa features for marketers and the top features for developers, we were getting a lot of questions from the community about the new Alexa features announced during Alexa Live 2020. So, what better way to dive deep into them than by sitting down with someone who had a hand in creating a great deal of them.Paul Cutsinger is known within the voice community for being one of the first Alexa developer evangelists and teaching people all over the world how to build skills. Now, he's moved into more of a product role where he brings the next most needed features to the platform.In this live podcast episode, we chatted to Paul about his role and dove deep into the ins and outs of some of the best and newest Alexa features for designers, developers and marketers, as well as fielded questions from the audience on skill building best practice.LinksAmazon Alexa Skills KitAlexa Skills Challenge: Alexa ConversationsFollow Paul on LinkedIn and Twitter See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
This is a SUPER important interview, for a lot of reasons, I go super in depth with Paul Cutsinger about what my views of the future of voice & Alexa are, and really lay out why the space is so important. If you're as focused on the voice space as I am (you should be), this is an all-timer for you. Curious about Alexa? Hit up their dev site: alexa.design/vaynermedia *originally published to The GaryVee Audio Experience on July 18, 2018
Dylan Zwick is the Chief Product Officer at Pulse Labs, a Seattle-based startup that offers a remote testing and analytics platform for voice app developers. The Pulse Labs team are leaders in the field of voice application testing, and are official partners with both Google and Amazon, helping them to define and improve the state of the art in voice application design. We cover the different types of testing, including unit testing, functional testing, certification testing and usability testing. Then Dylan explains how remote usability testing works, how to build your panel of testers, how and when to conduct usability tests, and how to interpret the results. You will also discover to become a Pulse Labs remote usability tester yourself, giving you early access to the latest voice apps and earning you some money too. Dylan shares the design lessons learned from testing hundreds of voice apps for both Google and Amazon, including the importance of always moving forwards in the flow, why variation of word and sentence structure can maintain attention, and how to add variety without increasing complexity. The number of insights per minute in this conversation is off the charts - you'll learn so much from Dylan you'll definitely want to keep a pen and paper handy! This is a time-limited preview. To hear the full episode, and access the full catalogue of episodes and bonus content, become a Voice Tech Pro https://voicetechpodcast.com/proLinks from the show: Full show notes: https://voicetechpodcast.comPulse Labs: https://www.pulselabs.ai Dylan's email: dylan.zwick@pulselabs.ai Blog - talk with Paul Cutsinger: http://bit.ly/2E2D6D2Blog - Voice Opportunities Beyond the Smart Speaker: http://bit.ly/2E3mjQ5Cathy Pearl: Designing Voice User Interfaces: https://amzn.to/2E5dfubManning books: https://www.manning.com 40% off all books code: podvoicetech19 Subscribe to get future episodes: Apple iTunes: https://apple.co/2LqW4olGoogle Podcasts: http://bit.ly/voicetechpodcast-googleAlexa: https://voicetechpodcast.com/alexaSpotify: https://spoti.fi/2IZr5hmStitcher: http://bit.ly/voicetechpodcast-stitcherWebsite: http://bit.ly/voicetechpodcastJoin the discussion: Weekly Newsletter: https://voicetechpodcast.com/newsletterSponsor the show: https://voicetechpodcast.com/donateMedium blog: https://voicetechpodcast.com/medium Write for the blog: https://voicetechpodcast.com/publishEmail me: carl@voicetechpodcast.comFollow on Twitter: http://bit.ly/voicetechpodcast-twitterReddit: http://bit.ly/voicetechpodcast-redditFacebook group:
Paul Cutsinger is responsible for building, supporting, and training the Amazon Alexa developer community. He joined Amazon in 2013, served as Chief Evangelist for the Amazon App Store, and then joined the Alexa team in 2016. His team travels around the world supporting hundreds of conferences, hackathons, and voice meetups in addition to running weekly office hours and training on Twitch. We talk about Alexa circa 2016, how it has changed each year since, and go deeper into discussions around voice SEO, Alexa skill connections (cross-skill integration), monetization and more. Paul previously served as Vice President of Technology for games at The Walt Disney Company, spent 14 years with Microsoft, and earned a mechanical engineering degree from Colorado State University.
This is a SUPER important interview, for a lot of reasons, I go super in depth with Paul Cutsinger about what my views of the future of voice & Alexa are, and really lay out why the space is so important. If you're as focused on the voice space as I am (you should be), this is an all-timer for you. Curious about Alexa? Hit up their dev site: https://alexa.design/vaynermedia
Voice interfaces are a newer form of communicating with computers. Alexa is a voice interface platform from Amazon. Alexa powers the Amazon Echo, as well as Alexa-enabled cars, refrigerators, and dishwashers. Any developer can build a device with a voice interface using a Raspberry Pi. Paul Cutsinger works on Echo and Alexa at Amazon. He’s The post Alexa Voice Design with Paul Cutsinger appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.
This episode reflects back on Voice Design in 2017 and what we might expect to see this coming year. Dave brings back guest Paul Cutsinger and the two discuss the rise of multiple Alexa device form factors, how can voice driven experiences take advantage of visual information and what does all this mean for conversational experiences. Are there lessons can we can learn from Mobile or are we doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past? Dave also dives deeper into what game development and player engagements might look like this coming year with Voice as the game controller. Links: Alexa Feature Requests: http://alexa.uservoice.com Alexa Github: http://github.com/alexa Alexa Design Guide - http://alexa.design/guide
In this episode Dave chats with Alexa Hackathon Team Manager, Paul Cutsinger. The two chat about early Amazon Developer Day events, how that has turned into a formal Alexa hackathon team, ways developers are learning at these events and the interesting projects that have been created around Alexa.