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Kelley J. P. Lindberg writes award-winning young adult and adult fiction, and she sometimes admits to having written several best-selling how-to books in her early career. When she isn't writing or reading, she's traveling as far and as often as she can. Kelley has spoken at numerous writing conferences and workshops, including the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers conference. Her fiction and essays have appeared in The Baltimore Review, The Citron Review, Chicken Soup for the Wine Lover's Soul, and others, and in the Tellables app for the Amazon Alexa platform. Kelley has just signed with agent Lynnette Novak, of The Seymour Agency, for her first young adult novel, True Love Never. You can visit Kelley's website at www.KelleyLindberg.com, where she blogs about writing craft and the writer's life.   For video versions of these podcasts, visit The Rocky Mountain Writer on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Z3EXJZHic&list=PLBP81nfbKnDRjs-Nar9LNe20138AiPyP8 Intro Music by Moby Gratis: https://mobygratis.com/ Outro Music by Dan-o-Songs: https://danosongs.com/

In this episode, Teri will share his experience at the recent Project Voice 2020 and give us some of the highlights of the event.He met so many like-minded people at the event, listened in on some sessions and participated in others. Bradley Metrock and his team did a great job organizing and coordinating the event. Teri had a videographer following him around for the entire duration of the event so he could capture as much content as possible to share with the Alexa in Canada audience. He was awarded the Flash Briefing of the Year award at the event.Welcome and Enjoy!Teri made a couple of short clips of his conversations with the people he met at the event, and the include:Scot Westwater from Pragmatic DigitalScot and his wife Susan are the founders of Pragmatic Digital and they just recently released a book that they did the book signing for at the event.They also recently released a new program called Voice Masters.They are focused on creating strategies for voice. They help businesses figure out what the value for their audience is, figure out what they’re trying to achieve from a business standpoint, and to actually figure out where those two intersect to create something that is useful and usable, instead of just novelty.He was excited by Teri’s panel and wanted to attend the event because they hadn’t attended in 2019.They will be doing a talk about strategy and the book they just released.Noa Eshed from Trinity AudioShe is the CMO of Trinity Audio and attended the event to learn more about the audio and voice industry, while also learning more about the predictions for 2020.She predicts that more readers will turn to listeners in 2020.She thinks publications will produce their written content in audio form too.She also predicts that audio advertising will evolve. This will happen through humanizing brands and telling stories.Roger Kibbe of Samsung BixbyHe is a developer and evangelist for Samsung Bixby.He is at the Project Voice to attend some sessions and do a talk.He will also be giving a workshop for Bixby with his team.He is excited to see how big the industry has gotten and how much momentum is around it.In 2020, he sees brands getting very serious about voice, and including it in their marketing budgets.Dr. Neil Desai of MedFlashGoHe is a family physician and one of the co-founders of MedFlashGo and DentalFlashGo, which are Alexa skills.He is the chief marketing officer for both those skills.They are focused on evolving medical education in the 21st century and training the next generation of physicians and healthcare professionals to teach, learn, create, and practice medicine in the century we live in by leveraging voice.He thinks voice technology will be adopted more in 2020.Dr. Sirish Kondabolu of Medicine Remixed PodcastHe is an orthopedic surgeon by training and the co-founder of Medicine Remixed which is a media company focused on podcasting and voice technology.On the voice side, he is interested in the implications of voice in both patient education and provider education. He feels that there are so many simple interventions that we can do using voice.One use case that he has been fascinated with is patient education specifically in orthopedic surgery with for example, post-op discharge instructions.Voice is the only platform where people can do all sorts of things while listening to what they need to listen to.Amy Stapleton of TellablesShe is the Founder and CEO of Tellables.She will be talking at the event about merging Tellables into a brand new company called Chatables. They will be extending their storytelling experience from the lessons that they learned from their My Box of Chocolates experience and conversational stories. They are building a new platform for authors and are looking into stories as a service where brands can extend their conversations with their customers by engaging with Chatables to find a conversational story that might peak the interest of customers.She thinks 2020 will be a transitional year where a lot of changes will take place in voice technologies.Andy Bellevia of KnowlesCorpHis company makes small microphones and speakers for mobile phones, voice assistants, smart speakers, other voice enabled IoT devices, hearables and hearing aids.He is responsible for all the in-ear products, and that’s what brought him to Project Voice, to get an insight into the intersection of modern hearables, where they’re going, and how hearables will enable voice on the go wherever someone goes.There has been a new Bluetooth standard for hearables that will be lower powered so hearables will have longer battery life and now they’ve become very useful to wear all day. Andy watched at CES how Google Assistant is pushing towards voice enabling third party apps.Katherine Prescott of VoiceBrewShe is the founder and editor of VoiceBrew, a digital media company dedicated to helping people get the most out of Alexa. They currently have 40,000 subscribers.They do a daily “One Actually Awesome Thing to Try with Alexa”They also publish comprehensive feature guides on everything from Alexa routines, to drop-in, to important topics like privacy.They recently launched an Alexa Tip of the Day flash brIefing largely inspired by Teri and other flash briefing creators.Daniel Hill He teaches small business owners how to use Instagram.He has a flash briefing where he talks about news, new features that have come to Instagram, strategies, tips and tricks, and answers questions on there.He spoke at the event about discoverability on voice especially voice skills.Adrian Simple of Gaming ObserverHe runs an Alexa flash briefing called the Gaming Observer, which is ranked number one in the US and the UK.Danny OrtizHe works with an incubator in Columbus, Ohio called Wave Columbus or the Wave Innovation Center. They incubate companies and help them grow in whatever area.David Box from Macadamian TechnologiesHe and his company presented topics on how to start up a voice skill in a voice bootcamp 101 type of session.They are focused on building the future of healthcare, and voice is a large part of that. They look at many different ways where they can incorporate voice into clinical workflows, and into the everyday lives of patients in order to improve outcomes and help clinicians improve their daily lives.Nate Trelor from OrbitaHe sees a transformation of healthcare taking place in 2020 through the power of voice.Voice has already started being used in clinical use cases transforming how patients communicate with their care providers and manage their own wellness.Carl Robinson of the Voice Tech PodcastHe saw some amazing presentations at the event.He has mostly been doing a range of podcast interviews with interesting people at the event.Bret Kinsella of VoiceBot.aiHe was the focus of the Bret Kinsella roast during the award ceremony which was a lot of fun.He also won the This Week in Voice Award for the Voice/AI Commentator of the year, and won the Voice/AI journalist of the year.They educate the industry and help people make better decisions so they can understand what’s going on today and where the trends are headed.Ray Kyle of Project VoiceHe’s a huge part of the Project Voice team.He handles business development for the event and all the Voice First events they do all over the US.Bradley Metrock of Project VoiceHe is the CEO of Score Publishing, a new type of publishing company that help creators find voice.He is the host of This Week in Voice and Executive producer of Project Voice.Links and Resources in this EpisodeVoice MastersPlay Crack the Code HereTrinity AudioThe Gaming Observer Flash Briefingwww.TheGamingObserver.comAdrian Simple on LinkedinAdrian Simple on Twitterwww.TheWaveColumbus.comwww.Orbita.aiwww.VoiceTechPodcast.comwww.VoiceTechPodcast.com/Newsletterwww.VoiceBot.aiwww.VoiceBot.ai/InsiderOther useful resources:Voice in Canada: The Flash BriefingComplete List of Alexa CommandsAlexa-Enabled and Controlled Devices in CanadaTeri Fisher on TwitterAlexa in Canada on TwitterAlexa in Canada Facebook PageAlexa in Canada Community Group on FacebookAlexa in Canada on InstagramPlease leave a review on iTunesShopping on Amazon.ca See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode, Teri will do a recap of the ten best episodes of the Alexa in Canada podcast in 2019. These episodes will be great for anyone who wants to learn more about how they can get started with their Amazon Alexa device. They are based on the podcast episodes that have been downloaded the most and they are all accessible at AlexainCanada.ca. And the 10th Most Listened Episode is!#10: 73 - Voice Design with Obeid Ahmed of BotmockObeid is an entrepreneur, mentor, and technologist, and has been involved in a lot of early stage startups.He came on the show to talk about Botmock, a platform he created to allow people to publish skills to Alexa and other platforms. Botmock is designed to create conversations between a user and Alexa in a simpler drag and drop editor, so the user doesn’t really need to know code to do it.Botmock allows developers to share their prototypes and get feedback all in one centralized location. It’s helping companies and individuals build better voice experiences.Obeid has a great use case that he talks about where they used Botmock with the Canadian Blood Services to create some conversational design experiences.The episode can be found at AlexainCanada.ca/73#9: 62 - The 2019 Alexa Conference RoundupThis was a very popular podcast.Teri recorded this episode at the 2019 Alexa Conference. He approached a number of key leaders and influencers in the voice space and asked them for a little bit of a sound bite and then he put them together to produce a kind of mashup.It’s available at AlexainCanada.ca/62#8: 78 - How to Setup Alexa in Canada in 2019 This was an update on Teri’s original episode on how to set up Alexa.It’s available at AlexainCanada.ca/78#7: 75 - Awesome Aariv Modi: A Grade 5 Alexa Skill DeveloperTeri interviewed a grade 5 voice technology enthusiast and developer, Aariv Modi, who was accompanied by his dad. Aariv is making Alexa skills and creating educational videos. He is all in on Amazon Alexa and is such a bright young man.Aariv is going to be speaking at the Project Voice event in January 2020.The episode is available at AlexainCanada.ca/75#6: 66 - The Last Interface with Brian Roemmelle Brian Roemmelle is one of those visionaries that don’t come around often.He has been termed “The Oracle of Voice” and is the one who came up with the term “Voice First”He has often times been described as the “Modern Day Thomas Edison”This episode was all about Brian’s ideas about where we are going with voice technology and how he feels that voice is the primary input and output device of the human being.The episode is available at AlexainCanada.ca/66#5: 3 - How Does Alexa Work?Teri went through the basic terms of what the difference is between Alexa and an Echo, what a skill is, the different components of an Echo Device, what happens when someone speaks to Alexa, etc.The episode is available at AlexainCanada.ca/3#4: 61 - How to Create an Amazon Alexa Flash BriefingThis was an episode Teri did about how to create an Amazon Alexa Flash Briefing.Teri has a comprehensive course on how to create a flash briefing available at FlashBriefingFormula.com, and it’s absolutely free.#3: 60 - 2019 Top Ten Amazon Alexa Skills in CanadaTeri went through the Amazon Skill Store and looked at what the top skills in Canada were at that time.He did not include the ambient sound skills in the list because they’re so many.#2: 65 - Interactive Storytelling with Amy Stapleton of TellablesThey talked about interactive storytelling in the context of Amy’s company, Tellables, and in particular their Alexa skill called, My Box of Chocolates. It’s a very unique concept that allows users to ask Alexa about boxes of chocolates where the different chocolates in the boxes represent different stories. The different storytellers have different personas.And Now For the Top Alexa in Canada Podcast Episode for 2019…#1: 4 - How to Setup Alexa in Canada It was the first episode Teri did that was specifically about addressing how to set up Alexa in Canada.It was the most listened to podcast episode.List of resources mentioned in this episode:Flash Briefing FormulaCrack the Code 2020Other useful resources:Voice in Canada: The Flash BriefingComplete List of Alexa CommandsAlexa-Enabled and Controlled Devices in CanadaTeri Fisher on TwitterAlexa in Canada on TwitterAlexa in Canada Facebook PageAlexa in Canada Community Group on FacebookAlexa in Canada on InstagramPlease leave a review on iTunesShopping on Amazon.ca See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

There have been so many rich insights offered by Voicebot Podcast guests that I wanted to figure out a simple way to unlock a few of those nuggets in case you missed the episodes. I also wanted to hear some discussion among dedicated and erudite listeners about what was said by past guests and what they thought mattered most. With 100 episodes to choose from, we narrowed it down by asking listeners to let me know their favorite episodes and why. Our panelists also weighed in and by my count, we discussed at least 23 episodes. Amy Stapleton of Tellables, Pete Haas from Conversation Curve, and Dave Kemp from Oaktree join me on the 100 episode retrospective. What a long, fruitful trip it's been. Hear comments about episodes that included Adam Cheyer, Ron Croen, Cathy Pearl, Dave Isbitski, Lisa Falkson, Karen Kaushansky, Vijay Balasubramanian, Brad Abrams, and many more. 

Amy Stapleton is CEO and founder of Tellables which works with authors to develop interactive story games designed to be played through voice assistants and social robots. Before founding Tellables, Amy was an analyst at Opus Research where she focused on intelligent assistants and coined the term meta assistant. Earlier, she worked in the technology services group at NASA for 14 years and was also a product manager at SAP. Amy earned a PhD from the University of Wisconsin in Germanic Languages and Literature and holds degrees from UNC Chapel Hill and UNC Greensboro.

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In this episode, Teri welcomes Amy Stapleton, the founder and CEO of Tellables, a company that excels in creating interactive storytelling for voice assistants and robots.Welcome Amy!Amy has been an IT professional for many years and her last stint was as IT manager at NASA’s Marshall Spaceflight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. She retired early to focus on voice technology, specifically in storytelling, which led her to specialize in natural language and conversation, and designing interactive story experiences and games for talking voice assistants and conversational robots.Amy comes on the show to talk to us about her new skill, “My Box of Chocolates”, and to explain how chocolates in this skill represent different stories. It’s a new type of interactive storytelling where we can have discussions with Alexa about what you’re listening to. The skill is available in Canada and Amy will actually looking for authors and will tell us how we can participate in the story making process.Her First Skills and Starting TellablesWhen Jibo (the social robot) was launched, it made Amy realize that people wanted to hear stories told by robots and voice assistants because they would consider them to be like characters in their home.Her first storytelling Alexa skill was called “Listening Comprehension Practice” which had stories that were followed by some yes or no questions. The skill was more directed at children because they could listen to the stories and then test out their understanding of the content of the story by answering the questions.The next skill they created was “Tricky Genie” and it became very popular. It’s more of a story game where Alexa tells a quick little anecdote about one or more characters who get themselves into some kind of predicament, and a genie pops up holding free sacks, and then the player has two chances to find the sack with the right solution.They created other skills that were like Tricky Genie, but Amy wanted to move more into something that was based on conversational story telling where people could enjoy stories and be able to have conversations with Alexa about the stories.They now have a content management system which allows an author to add a lot of additional content to a skill without having to republish the skill. They have opened up the system so that other authors can submit content for Tellables to use and publish as part of their live skills. The first skill where they implemented that is “My Box of Chocolates”Conversational StorytellingIt’s based on the idea of a voice assistant telling someone a story. In the case of My Box of Chocolates, one of Tellables’ virtual chocolatiers tells a story to the voice assistant or robot user. The user therefore engages with a personality unlike when listening to, for example, a streaming audio book.After someone hears one of the stories in My Box of Chocolates, Alexa (who is listening to the story with the person), will make a comment about what she thinks of the story, then she will ask the listener a question that the listener can respond to in a constrained number of ways, then based on the response, Alexa will make an appropriate follow-on response which is only one level deep. Tellables is working on developing the skill farther so that people can have a multi-turn conversations with Alexa about the story.My Box of ChocolatesThe basic concept of the skill is that Tellables has created a publishing platform where authors who like to write short stories can submit the stories for Tellables to publish.Every month, Tellables publishes a virtual box of twelve candies that are chocolates, and each has a representation. People can go to the Tellables website to see an image of each chocolate and what it represents. They’re meant to be funny and relate to the story a person is listening to. Every month they come out with a new assortment, but people can still go back to the older stories if they want to.The bots that tell the stories are called Chocolatiers. So far they have 4 chocolatiers (Coco, Brandon, Archie and Opal) with distinct personalities and different synthetic voices. Each voice is associated with a specific character that has a personality and a back story. Each character has an image.For those who want to contribute their stories, they have to be a maximum of 275 words long and that fit within the personalities of any of the 4 chocolatiers in My Box of Chocolates.List of resources mentioned in this episode:My Box of ChocolatesListening Comprehension PracticeTricky GenieTellables Other Useful resources:Voice in Canada: The Flash BriefingComplete List of Alexa CommandsReviews of top Alexa Skills in CanadaAlexa-Enabled and Controlled Devices in CanadaTeri Fisher on TwitterAlexa in Canada on TwitterAlexa in Canada Facebook PageAlexa in Canada Community Group on FacebookAlexa in Canada on InstagramPlease leave a review on iTunesShopping on Amazon.ca See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Dustin and I are joined by Tellables co-founder, Amy Stapleton, to discuss storytelling through Alexa and the design challenges that come with that.By the end of this podcast, you'll:Be familiar with situational designGain insight into designing with Amazon PollyLearn about complex interaction modelsSee how you can use metaphors to helps users navigate (in this case, a box of chocolates)Understand how to build your own voice CMS and moreAbout Amy and TellablesAfter spending many years in IT, including 14 years at NASA as an IT manager, Amy Stapleton is driving the voice first revolution forward. Tellables build conversational story experiences for talking devices and provide a platform to showcase the work of talented authors within voice apps.Where to listenApple podcastsSpotifyYouTubeCastBoxSpreakerTuneInBreakerStitcherPlayerFMiHeartRadioLinksVisit the Tellables websiteFollow Tellables on TwitterFollow Amy on TwitterEnable My Box of ChocolatesView the My Box of Chocolates list of candiesEnable the Tricky Genie skillCheck out the Pepper robotFind out more about AirtablePaul Cutsinger on situational design See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode, Teri does a round-up of the conversations he had about voice with different people at the 2019 Alexa Conference in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Teri was a speaker at the conference and talked about voice technology in the context of healthcare. He also led a workshop on how to create a flash briefing and recorded a flash briefing live for his Voice in Canada flash briefing. Shanthan Kesharaju He is the founder of Sermo Labs, LLC. They build educational Alexa skills that ignite young minds to learn interest in maths especially by practicing at home.They built “1-2-3 Math” which has been top trending on the Amazon store in different categories. It has three difficulty levels; easy, medium and hard. It can be used by any school going child up to middle school depending on what their skill levels are. Parents have said the skill helps their children in doing their homework.Shanthan gave a talk at the conference about how he built a top trending Alexa skill and shared his journey. Armel Beaudry KembeHe is the founder of Trebble.FM, a free service that allows users with no technical experience to record byte-size “shortcast” voice messages (aka “capsules”) on Trebble.fm using your smartphone or internet browser. Then, anyone in the world with a voice-activated speaker, such as the Amazon Echo, is able to listen to those shortcasts instantly.He is excited about voice and thinks 2019 is going to be a great year.Expects Amazon to announce a lot of great voice features/devices around cars.Pete EricksonHe is the founder of Modev and the creator of the VOICE Summit.They opened their call for proposals for the VOICE Summit during the Alexa Conference. The response was fantastic.Stuart PattersonHe is the co-founder and CEO of Lifepod.He liked the HealthTrack, a dedicated healthcare track which was a great mix of healthcare institutions, developers, and industry analysts. It gave Lifepod the opportunity to demonstrate their proactive voice capabilities along with the skill linking that they do in the session management that they do in their dialogue management system for caregivers.Daniel Hill He is the founder of Daniel Hill Media.He teaches small business owners how to use Instagram and has the The Instagram Stories podcast.He launched the Alexa flash briefing skill, The Instagram Stories, where he gives up-to-date news on Instagram, discusses news articles and also does a Q&A session he answers whatever questions people have about the platform.He learnt a lot at the conference about what other people are doing in terms of making skills.He wants to move more into skill development.Dave KempHe also writes the blog, FuturEar. He is quickly becoming one of the leading voices on smart hearables.He has observed a huge adoption of smart assistants within the senior population.As people get older, they tend to lose their hearing, and Dave sees there being a combination between hearing aid adoption and smart assistant adoption because the two can work in conjunction very well. There is smart assistant integration taking place in hearing aids and hearing devices in general.Doug SchumacherHe is the founder of Arrovox, which strategizes and develops digital marketing solutions.He is the creator of the Homie and Lexy Podcast, a satirical podcast that dives into the lives of Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant from their perspectives. Doug uses text-to-speech and quality voices to create a dialogue between the two assistants.He also runs the podcast, Voice Marketing.Doug learnt more about the voice space and developing voice solutions for businesses.Amy StapletonShe is the founder of Tellables, a company that creates conversational stories for voice first devices.She gave a talk at the conference about using Alexa to capture attention as a story teller.She was also promoting their new skill, “My Box of Chocolates”, which is available in the US and Canada. One can say, “Alexa, open my box of chocolates” and they get an interesting little candy that’s not real, but is associated with a funny little story and one can talk to Alexa about the story. They are currently soliciting content from authors to be published with their chocolates.Brielle NickoloffShe is the Lead, Product Marketing at Witlingo.Witlingo created the CastLingo skill to help people record short snippets of whatever they want their audience to hear, and connect with them in a very unique way that conveys emotion through voice. They think this is the future of how people start connecting with their followers and audience.Dr. Neel DesaiHe is from the company, MedFlash Go.The MedFlash Go skill will be geared towards the medical education space with the goal of helping medical students save time, money and anxiety. The skill will help them study for their exams.John DeanHe is the Co-Founder at Triad Health A.I., which uses smart speakers to make smart exercises for Parkinsons. They see the opportunity to do things that are interactive in a home environment so people can stay independent, and also capture interesting data. They capture the performance data with the exercises and they couple that with the audio which provides them with a lot of very interesting information from people with Parkinsons.Brian RoemmelleHe was introduced at the conference as the Modern Day Thomas Edison and the Oracle of Voice.He is writing a book called “The Last Interface”The Last Interface is a combination of many different ideas that he is trying to put together so that more people can understand it. It’s a wisdom keeper which stores all of the knowledge and wisdom that we have accumulated within us by seeing and reading things.He believes that in the next year we are going to start seeing a very gradual, but noticeable shift of being able to actually have conversations with our voice AI systems. List of resources mentioned in this episode:1-2-3 MathTrebble.FMModevThe Voice SummitLifepodThe Instagram StoriesFuturEar BlogHomie & Lexy PodcastTellablesMy Box of ChocolatesCastLingoDr. Neel DesaiBrian Roemmelle Interview 1Brian Roemmelle Interview 2Flash Briefing Formula CourseOther Useful resources:Voice in Canada: The Flash BriefingComplete List of Alexa CommandsReviews of top Alexa Skills in CanadaAlexa-Enabled and Controlled Devices in CanadaTeri Fisher on TwitterAlexa in Canada on TwitterAlexa in Canada Facebook PageAlexa in Canada Community Group on FacebookAlexa in Canada on InstagramPlease leave a review on iTunesShopping on Amazon.caThe Alexa Conference, presented by VoiceFirst.FMuse promo code ALEXAINCANADA for 20% off See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

An all-star duo (Dan Miller, founder and lead analyst of Opus Research, and Amy Stapleton, founder and CEO of Tellables) discuss the latest in voice technology news, including Amazon's massive acquisition of Ring, Google's announcement of carrier and OEM programs related to Google Assistant, the explosion of voice-assistant-driven commerce, the expansion of Amazon's developer payment program, a review of the Echo Dot and Google Home Mini by a 4th grader, and Amazon's sponsorship of The Alexa Conference Presented By VoiceFirst.FM next January. Hosted by Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) and part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

CEO of Score Publishing, producer of Digital Book World 2018 Interview starts at 15:44 and ends at 43:43 “The Echo Show is an incredible glimpse into the future, because the future is going to be words come out of your mouth, and that's how you engage the computer rather than typing on a QWERTY keyboard or moving a mouse.” News “Amid Takeover Talk, Barnes & Noble Posts $30 million Q2 Loss, Stock Sheds 10%” by Jonathan Ponciano at Forbes - November 30, 2017 “B&N Has Disappointing Second Quarter” by Jim Milliot at Publishers Weekly - November 1, 2017 “Barnes & Noble's sales hit by the curse of Harry Potter” by the AP - December 1, 2017 “To save itself, Barnes & Noble is pivoting to books” by Thu-Huong Ha at Quartz - November 30, 2017 “Why Barnes & Noble Wants Smaller Stores” by Phil Wahba at Fortune - November 30, 2017 Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling “No takeover for Barnes and Noble after that earnings bomb” at Yahoo Finance - November 30, 2017 “4 Reasons Barnes and Noble Failed the Nook” by Jessie Nuez at Babble - 2013 “Amazon's Alexa heads to the workplace” by Dave Lee at BBC - November 30, 2017 Interview with Bradley Metrock Score Publishing Digital Book World Alexa Conference - Keynote by Ahmed Bouzid, CEO Witlingo (and original head of product for Amazon's Alexa and Connected Homes initiative) Tellables, Earplay (TKC interview with CEO Jon Myers in November, 2016), and Novel Effect VoiceFirst.FM AWS Reinvent Tim O'Reilly's Tools of Change conference Author Earnings (Hugh Howey and Data Guy) Apple's iBooks Author WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up To Us by Tim O'Reilly Outro Music: “Happiness (in F major) by Bradley Metrock on Mountain Radio Silence, used with permission Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

Episode 7 of The Alexa Podcast, presented by VoiceFirst.FM, features special guest Amy Stapleton (CEO and founder, Tellables). Amy discusses Tellables' approach to interactive storytelling, some of the challenges in implementing immersive experiences using the Alexa platform, and the role voice assistants will play in storytelling (among many other things) as we move into the future. Tellables' feature on Amazon's developer blog, as mentioned in this episode, can be viewed here: https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/9e0d0f76-a275-4bbe-871a-2a556e5c017f/creator-of-tricky-genie-a-popular-kid-skill-for-alexa-shares-tips-for-fostering-consistent-customer-engagement. Hosted by Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) and Kevin Old (software developer, LifeWay).