Podcasts about this week in voice

This Week In Voice, the conversational AI news discussion roundtable, is proud to return for its ninth season. Hosted by Bradley Metrock (CEO, Project Voice; General Partner, Project Voice Capital Partners), the show talks through the news of the week related to natural language-based AI with a who's-who of executives and leaders working with the technology. Guests: Ricardo Marin (Vozy), Nieves Abalos Serrano (Monoceros Labs), Reena Gupta (Mom Relaunch / Wisdocity) Stories for discussion: 1) A boy saw 17 doctors over 3 years for chronic pain. ChatGPT found the diagnosis (TODAY Show) https://www.today.com/health/mom-chatgpt-diagnosis-pain-rcna101843 2) Druid, a conversational AI platform that integrates with ChatGPT, raises $30M (TechCrunch) https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/12/druid-a-conversational-ai-platform-for-enterprises-that-integrates-with-chatgpt-raises-24m/ 3) WWDC 2024: Is Apple on the road to Siri 2.0? (Computer World) https://www.computerworld.com/article/3706472/wwdc-2024-is-apple-on-the-road-to-siri-20.html ---------------- Project Voice's annual conference is invitation-only in 2024 (April 22-23, Chattanooga TN), bringing together 200 conversational AI buyers (defined as decision-makers within Fortune 1000 companies investing $1M or more, over the next 12 months, into conversational AI solutions for their enterprise) all in the same room. A handful of best-in-class service providers, VCs/investors, and qualified US-based tech media will also be invited to attend. ----------------- For information on Project Voice Capital Partners, the VC fund identifying and investing in early-stage top-tier founders and companies working with conversational AI across all industries and sectors, visit www.pvcp.vc.

This Week In Voice, the conversational AI news discussion roundtable, is proud to return for its ninth season. Hosted by Bradley Metrock (CEO, Project Voice; General Partner, Project Voice Capital Partners), the show talks through the news of the week related to natural language-based AI with a who's-who of executives and leaders working with the technology. Guests: Enric Plana (CEO, M47 Labs), Norrie Daroga (President, Codebaby), Christoph Esslinger (CEO, VUI Agency), Dr. Yared Alemu (CEO, TQIntelligence) -------------- Stories for discussion: 1) OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Enterprise, The Company's Biggest Announcement Since ChatGPT's Debut (CNBC) https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/28/openai-chatgpt-enterprise-launches.html 1a) How One Elite University Is Approaching ChatGPT This School Year (MIT Technology Review) https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/09/04/1078932/elite-university-chatgpt-this-school-year/ 2a) Trump Accused Of Using AI Or An Impersonator For Interview (NY Post) https://nypost.com/2023/09/01/trump-accused-of-using-ai-or-an-impersonator-on-real-americas-voice/ 2b) AI Trump Voice Used In DeSantis Campaign Ad (WESH ABC 2) https://www.wesh.com/article/ai-trump-voice-campaign-ad/44579105 3) Dad Shocked As Five-Year-Old Son Uses Amazon Alexa To Order A Hot Tub And $1,000 In Toys (LAD Bible) https://www.ladbible.com/community/5-year-old-alexa-amazon-order-toys-hot-tub-686523-20230904 ---------------- Project Voice's annual conference is invitation-only in 2024 (April 22-23, Chattanooga TN), bringing together 200 conversational AI buyers (defined as decision-makers within Fortune 1000 companies investing $1M or more, over the next 12 months, into conversational AI solutions for their enterprise) all in the same room. A handful of best-in-class service providers, VCs/investors, and qualified US-based tech media will also be invited to attend. ----------------- For information on Project Voice Capital Partners, the VC fund identifying and investing in early-stage top-tier founders and companies working with conversational AI across all industries and sectors, visit www.pvcp.vc.

**Who You'll Hear**Guest: Bradley Metrock (CEO of Project Voice)Co-host: Luna Tang (Cloud Service Delivery Manager at Klopotek)Co-host: Dwayne Parris (Senior Consultant at Klopotek)The guest for this month is Bradley Metrock, CEO of Project Voice and General Partner of Project Voice Capital Partners, who joins us to discuss the ins and outs of voice technology. Bradley starts with sharing how his personal and professional experience revolves around voice technology, AI, and publishing, then makes an in-depth analysis of how the emergence and rise of voice technology and voice AI has been making a revolutionary impact on publishing and various industries.In the end, Bradley recommends two events that voice AI and publishing practitioners would never want to miss out: Project Voice 2022 (April 25-28, 2022, in Chattanooga, Tennessee) and Digital Book World 2023 (Jan 16-18, 2023, in NYC). For more cutting-edge voice tech, please visit Project Voice and listen to his podcast This Week in Voice. Tell us what is going on with your publishing projects or business on Twitter (@Klopotek_AG), LinkedIn, or email us at podcast@klopotek.com.  For more information about the Klopotek software solution, please write to info@klopotek.com, or register to receive emails from us on technology innovations & events from Klopotek.

This Week In Voice, Season 6 Episode 4, features guests Rana Gujral (CEO, Behavioral Signals), Jon Stine (Executive Director, Open Voice Network) and Thomas Lindgren (Executive Chairman, Wanderword). Stories include: 1) M&A Watch: LivePerson's Transformational Acquisitions (Dan Miller, Opus Research) 2) Healthcare's Use Of Voice Tech Seen As "Game Changer" For Diagnostics, Patient Experience (PYMNTS) 3) A Start-up Says Its Voice Recognition Tech Beats Google And Amazon At Reducing Racial Bias (CNBC) 4) Biggest Names In Voice Tech Coming To Okaloosa Island For Project Voice X (Northwest Florida Daily News) This Week In Voice, hosted by Bradley Metrock (CEO, Project Voice; General Partner, Project Voice Capital Partners) is part of the Project Voice Media Group.

This Week In Voice returns for Season 6! The season premiere is an interview with Cerence CEO Sanjay Dhawan, covering voice's evolved role in the car, how the company views the return to work and future of work, Cerence's positioning relative to big tech, and what's next for the company.

This Week In Voice takes a break from the usual news of the week in voice technology and conversational AI to speak with Dr. Teri Fisher, creator of Alexa in Canada and Voice First Health podcasts, numerous voice training materials, and The Voice Den, a pandemic-era social experience for the voice community. Teri is celebrating 1,000 flash briefings produced and published - a remarkable achievement. This interview spans all of those topics and more. This Week In Voice is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network, which itself is part of the Project Voice Media Group.

This Week In Voice, Season 5 Episode 4, features Simon Lau (Otter.ai) and Nick Livingston (HoneIt). Stories for discussion include: 1) Voice Assistants and the Election 1a) Voicebot: How Voice Assistants Are Responding To Election Result Updates 1b) Voicebot: How Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant Are Reporting On Election Day 2) Press Gazette (UK): Smart Audio: What Publishers Need To Know About The Latest Tech Revolution 3) MIT Technology Review: AI Pioneer Geoff Hinton: Deep Learning Is Going To Be Able To Do Everything (this is paywalled behind a limited number of free articles, let me know if you can't access) 4) Tech Xplore: Computer Scientist...Develops AI To Explain Its Discoveries This Week In Voice is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

This Week In Voice, Season 5 Episode 3, features special guests Patricia Scanlon (Soapbox Labs), Julia Liberty (AI Data Innovations), and Dr. Phillip Alvelda (Brainworks). Stories for discussion include: 1) MacRumors: Apple Acquires AI Startup Vilynx To Improve Siri 2) TechCrunch: Apple Search Crawler Activity Could Signal A Google Competitor 3) Adobe: Voice Technology's Role In Our Rapidly Changing World 4) Voicebot: Voice-Activated Museum "Planet Word" Opens In DC This Week In Voice is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

This Week In Voice, Season 5 Episode 2, features special guests Caitlin Gutekunst (Creativity, Inc.), Lisa Michaud (Interactions), and Kat Zdan (Google). Stories for discussion include: 1) Voicebot: Alexa Now Offers Personalized Reading Recommendations 2) Android Police: A Secret, Unreleased Option Lets Users Invoke Assistant On Smart Displays Without Saying "Hey Google" 3) MIT Technology Review: The True Dangers Of AI Are Closer Than We Think 4) Behold, The Smart Cactus! This Week In Voice is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network. Follow along with This Week In Voice VIP, the daily letter to the voice tech and AI communities around the world. Available through our friends at Substack here: https://thisweekinvoice.substack.com/

Hosted by Bradley Metrock and featuring guests Daniela Braga (CEO, DefinedCrowd), Nils Lenke (VP Apps, Cerence) and Derek Roberti (VP Technology, North America, Cognigy), This Week In Voice kicks off Season 5 with stories checking in on Google, Amazon, and Apple's voice/AI ecosystems. Additionally, a story about protecting children from AI is part of the show, and the first episode of Season 5 wraps with each of the guests discussing what they and their companies are most looking forward to as we approach 2021. A summary of the episode, along with a variety of quotes, were published as part of This Week In Voice VIP, the daily letter to the voice and AI tech communities. Check out the newsletter here: https://thisweekinvoice.substack.com/ This Week In Voice is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

The fifth of five special healthcare episodes of This Week In Voice features a roundtable discussion on the intersection of voice tech, conversational AI, and the hidden data within human speech. Caitlyn Brooksby (Canary Speech), Aaron Bours (Hyro.ai), Kenn Harper (Nuance), Scott Sandland (Cyrano.ai), and Mike Page (Phebi.ai) round out a powerhouse panel.

The third of five special healthcare episodes of This Week In Voice features a roundtable discussion on the intersection of voice tech, conversational AI, and accessibility of healthcare. Dale LaRue (RAIN Agency), Jon Gordon (LifePod), and Tarah Knaresboro (Renalis Health) round out a powerhouse panel.

The fourth of five special healthcare episodes of This Week In Voice features a roundtable discussion on the intersection of voice tech, conversational AI, and health insurance. Audrey Arbeeny (Audiobrain), Bhagvan Kommadi (ValueMomentum), Maaike Coppens (Promptful), Matt Cybulsky (IONIA), and Mika Eddy (UnitedHealth Group) round out a powerhouse panel.

The second of five special healthcare episodes of This Week In Voice features a roundtable discussion on the intersection of voice tech, conversational AI, and the electronic health record. Ricky Sahu (CEO, 1up.Health), Pat Williams (CEO, iScribe Health), Miriam Paramore (President, OptimizeRX), Rushi Ganmukhi (CEO, Bola.ai), and Scott Stephenson (CEO, Deepgram) round out a powerhouse panel.

The first of five special healthcare episodes of This Week In Voice features a roundtable discussion on the intersection of voice tech, conversational AI, and aging in place. Nate Treloar (Orbita), Mark Gray (Constant Companion), Dan Messina (Hands Free Health) and Jean-Claude Junqua (CE2Innovate) provides a lively and highly experienced panel.

Host Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) records the Season Finale of Season 4 of This Week In Voice, live as part of The Voice of the Car Summit on April 7, 2020. Featured guests include Carla Bailo (President and CEO, Center for Automotive Research), Piyush Chandra (Director of Product Management, NAUTO) and Chandra Khatri (Lead Research Scientist, Artificial Intelligence, Uber).

Voice as an input as well as an interface is considered by many to be the next frontier in human advancement. According to Voicebot, there are nearly 90 million US adults owning smart speakers. This adoption exceeds over a third of consumers with a compounded annual growth rate exceeding 30%, over the past three years. In January 2020, I went to the Project Voice conference in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Aside from discovering a lot about voice technology, devices, and conversational AI, I met some brilliant people shaping the future of this amazing interface. One memorable interaction I had, was with Stacey Kyler and Guy Tonye from Zammo.ai. Zammo is a great example of the rich fruits, born of voice technology and NoCode sensibility. This episode wouldn't have been possible without Bradley Metrock, host of "This Week In Voice", and Executive Producer of the Project Voice series of conferences and experiences. Here is a link to register for the Project Voice 2021. I've also included a brief excerpt from Bradley's interview with Mark Cuban, who gives some good advice on how to thrive in this nascent industry of voice. Zammo Demo - 10 mins. FYI - Guy is from Cameroon (b/w West and Central Africa). His name is French and is pronounced like the Gi you wear in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Hot Takes 7:15 - Stacey Kyler, Operations & Cust Success, Zammo. 8:18 - About Zammo. 9:47 - Intro - Guy Tonye, Software Engineer. 12:06 - Deeper on Zammo's Order of Solutions. 15:57 - Guy on making technology usable, accessible, and inclusive. 21:56 - Stacey on serving diverse customer needs. 29:06 - Guy endorses the NoCode mentality. 31:01 - The foundational tech behind Zammo. 34:38 - Zammo is the easy button for voice interactions. 39:44 - Trying to be the default invocation. 44:14 - Overcoming challenges in voice. 47:26 - Job Description: Conversation Enabler. 48:41 - Future view on using voice to build software. 51:20 - Maker Perspective = Use Case + Tool 54:23 - Will voice pass its own Turing test? 55:49 - For solopreneurs, enterprises, and government agencies. 58:29 - Voice gets better with more users. 1:02:19 Summary and Predictions. Music Credits Stephskillie - https://www.looperman.com/tracks?mid=Stephskillie Prod. nocredit - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEmMHfBN2NDsiEteozFVgYQ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app · Trainual: Trainual is a software that helps you document what you do, so you can easily delegate and train others. https://trainual.com/freemonth/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/codeless/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/codeless/support

In this episode, Teri shares a recording of his recent webinar where Brian Roemmele spoke about some of his ideas and visions for what our world is going to look like using voice technology after the current Coronavirus pandemic.Brian is the man that actually came up with the term “Voice First” and he’s often referred to as the Oracle of Voice and the Modern Day Thomas Edison. He is a scientist, researcher, analyst, connector, thinker, and doer. Over the long winding arc of his career, Brian has built and run payments and tech businesses, worked in media, including the promotion of top musicians, and explored a variety of other subjects along the way.He actively shares his findings and observations across fora like Forbes, Huffington Post, Newsweek, Slate, Business Insider, Daily Mail, Inc, Gizmodo, Medium, Quora (An exclusive Quora top writer for: 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, and 2013), Twitter (quoted and published), Around the Coin (earliest cryptocurrency podcast), Breaking Banks Radio and This Week In Voice on VoiceFirst.FM that surfaces everything from Bitcoin to Voice Commerce.Key Points from Brian!Where he sees voice making the biggest impact in times like these with the Coronavirus pandemic.How voice technology will change healthcare and life in general as we know it for the better.Brian’s Predictions On The Future Impact Of VoiceWe are going to see a redesign of public interaction surfaces (like over the air hand gestures) and more things interacting with voice.Our devices will also become an interface actuated by voice or touch to open doors, choose locations and elevators, open car doors, and a number of similar things, because people will be galvanized with the thought that there could be some dangerous virus years after the Coronavirus.He recently studied a lot of information about the 1918 pandemic and he was able to dive into the mindset of what happened after the pandemic to determine what changed in society. He was able to come up with some of the similarities between that pandemic and the current pandemic, and determine just how society today will change after the Coronavirus pandemic is over.One of the discoveries that were made after the 1918 pandemic was that copper surfaces had an immediate response in devitalizing or deactivating viruses.Certain minerals and metals also devitalize viruses and bacteria through something called Contact Kill which has been widely known for hundreds of years. People in Sumerian times were actually using silver and copper utensils, which some people saw as a sign of wealth, when in reality the utensils actually killed viruses and bacteria, and made their food more presentable.Brian feels that hospital surfaces and beds should have a copper alloy coding to safeguard against viruses and other pathogens.He thinks that there will need to be a way to diagnose people through voice, and how he sees that happening is through different bio-sensors that will be put on a person when they walk into a hospital and start diagnosing them before a medical attendant gets to see them.He insists that that those biosensor devices must not be on the internet in any way so that they’re never compromised. Those devices will be tuned to a user’s personality, outlook, goals, motivations, and they will notice changes in someone’s sleep patterns, and other things that serve as an early warning system.Brian has looked at several studies on Coronaviruses and realized that there are several early warning systems like sleep pattern disturbances, digestive pattern disturbances, change in temperature, change in heart rate variability, change in blink rate, and other things.There are a number of signs of any virus within a human body, and one of those things is a change in someone’s temperature gradient. If one has a voice first device on them, it can be notified of their change in temperature and take the necessary action.The Catalyst to Overhaul MedicineThe Coronavirus pandemic will be the catalyst to overhaul medicine and Brian highlights the fact that times of crisis are the only times in history that anything changes.He predicts the hospital room and points of contact will change because of the amount of attention we have put on the Coronavirus.He highlights the importance of self-sufficiency within countries in order to ensure that people don’t find themselves in the same kind of trouble they’re in right now with the Coronavirus pandemic, and he feels voice first technology will be a great start towards that.Monitoring People’s Vital Signs to Predict PandemicsBrian says with proper human telemetry, a physician can figure out the health of a person.There are other signs people can use to determine if someone has a virus or whether they are ill.He actually has a voice first AI with cameras that can determine that someone presents like they’re sick.He highlights the fact that if people’s health could be monitored electronically, then we would have an early warning sign of an oncoming pandemic. People are not very good observers of their own health conditions and even with the current healthcare systems no one is ever really sure whether a diagnosis is exact, but with a system of telemetry, we can have accurate diagnosis.It all boils down to being able to collect tons of data that is voice first. A great scenario would be someone asking their voice first device how they are doing, and the device would tell them exactly what their health is like.The Roaring 20s That Will Come Out Of The Current PandemicSociety will be re-organized and there’s going to be more telecommuting.Companies will not need to have a lot of their employees going back to their work stations because they will see a need for them to work from their homes as long as they can do their work. Technology is going to inform that.With properly designed voice devices for the corporate environment, work mates will be able to easily communicate with each other from their different locations.Brian walked into one of his companies in the early 2000s, asked most of the employees to go work from home, and productivity exploded as a result.Before the 1918/1919 pandemic, the average person was not interested in the telephone and the radio, but after the pandemic, they were very interested in both technologies because they were technologies that connected people through strong and meaningful communication.He predicts that as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic there will be a release of productivity, creativity, and socialization. He feels voice technology will lead the way in that.Links and Resources in this EpisodeThe Comprehensive Flash Briefing Formula Coursewww.VoiceFirst.ExpertBrian Roemmele on TwitterBrian Roemmele on QuoraBrian on Linkedin See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Host Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) speaks with voice super-developer Ilarna Nche (Software Developer, Matchbox.io) about the news of the week in voice tech and conversational AI. This Week In Voice is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

Host Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) speaks with Corinne Kleinman (Georgetown University) and discusses the top voice tech and AI news of the week, from Amazon executives unplugging Alexa devices in their homes to Cerence's desire to let you choose your own voice assistant in the car to the University of Michigan ridding itself of Clinc's former CEO. This Week In Voice is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

This Week In Voice recorded a special roundtable interview at CES, focused on the Chinese market for voice technology and AI. Joining host Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) is Shining Hsiong (Founder and CEO, Shenzhenware), Bo Xi (Market Developer Manager, Knowles Electronics) and Andy Bellavia (Director of Market Development, Knowles Electronics). The conversation centers on differences between the United States and Chinese markets for voice technology, and what we can expect to see in both markets heading into 2020.

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/pro“What should we be doing with voice?” If you or your team are asking that question, you need to be at Project Voice and we’re here to tell you why!Today on the VoiceTech Podcast we welcome Bradley Metrock, the organizer of Project Voice 2020. Bradley is CEO of Nashville-based Score Publishing, which helps creators find their voice. He founded podcast network VoiceFirst.FM hosts the popular show This Week In Voice, published More Than Just Weather And Music: 200 Ways To Use Alexa, and produces the company's series of VoiceFirst Events. Bradley has been cited as a leading thought leader on voice-first technology and AI, speaking regularly on its profound impact on our world.Our conversation today mostly revolves around Project Voice 2020, we also discuss some of Bradley’s above-mentioned ventures. He talks about his views on what he sees as the trends in Voice at the moment and lays out his predictions for 2020. It’s a really interesting and intriguing conversation we had, so be sure to keep listening! Also, check out the link below for 30% off Project Voice 2020 tickets.Highlights- Available at http://bit.ly/voicetechpodcast-ep050aQuotes from the show[0:09:51] This isn’t a transactional sort of conference[0:15:20] I am a truth teller to the marketplace and that is what sets our event apart[0:44:54] Focus on the identity of your show, the feelings it evokes, and the value it addsLinks to clickProject Voice

This Week In Voice, Season 4 Episode 13, features as guests the Samsung Bixby Team: Roger Kibbe, John Alioto, and Jonathan Pan. Joined by host Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing, and executive producer of Project Voice), the Bixby crew discusses a productive 2019 which saw the release of their developer ecosystem for Bixby and a successful roadshow across the United States. The conversation steers, toward the end, to privacy and data security, as well as Project Voice itself, where Samsung is a Presenting Sponsor for the #1 event for voice tech and AI in America. This Week In Voice is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

This Week In Voice (Season 4 Episode 12) features guests Noelle Silver (VP Digital Technology, NPR) and Amy Summers (President, Pitch Publicity) to discuss the stories of the week in voice tech and AI, including the announcement of the Project Voice Awards Finalists, whether women raise their voice with smart speakers more than men, Amazon Echo devices continuing to sell well during Black Friday, Amazon's release of a battery-powered Echo in India, and the activation of the SANTA TRACKER on Google Assistant! This Week In Voice is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

Season 4, Episode 10 (November 7, 2019) of This Week In Voice, presented by VoiceFirst.FM, is a special edition devoted to the release of new book "More Than Just Weather And Music: 200 Ways To Use Alexa" by Bradley Metrock.

In this episode, Teri welcomes back Brian Roemmele, the “Oracle of Voice” and the “Modern Day Thomas Edison.Brian is the consummate Renaissance man. He is a scientist, researcher, analyst, connector, thinker and doer. He is actually credited for having come up with the term “Voice First”. Over the long, winding arc of his career, Brian has built and run payments and tech businesses worked in media, including the promotion of top musicians, and explored a variety of other subjects along the way.Brian actively shares his findings and observations across fora like Forbes, Huffington Post, Newsweek, Slate, Business Insider, Daily Mail, Inc, Gizmodo, Medium, Quora (An exclusive Quora top writer for: 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, and 2013), Twitter (quoted and published), Around the Coin (earliest cryptocurrency podcast), Breaking Banks Radio and This Week In Voice on VoiceFirst.FM that surfaces everything from Bitcoin to Voice Commerce.Key points from Brian!Medical transcription devices and how the new release of the Google Recorder is a huge leap forward in the future for medical transcription.Google RecorderIt takes real time voice and transcribes it into the new Pixel 4 phone. It's all being done completely local to the device, meaning that the device can be in airplane mode, have no SIM card or WiFi, and the device will still do phenomenal speech to text.The device is a Google search engine built inside of the storage of the voice speech-to-text files that one creates.It’s an assembly of a lot of technology that has existed in the market, but done in such a way that it is unique and more useful.Voice transcription has been around since the 70s, but the ability to file the transcriptions in a meaningful way hasn’t been around for a long time.The Google Recorder is much more simplified than using a desktop or laptop.The device is currently just a freeform database. It’s not a physician fill-out-the-patient-form with your voice solution, it’s a notes solution.Google doesn’t yet know what they have with the Google Recorder.Tackling the Issue of Voice Dictation/Medical TranscriptionThe amount of paperwork physicians have to handle takes up more than 60% of their time.The problem with the existing medical transcription devices is that they’re designed for engineers to solve the problem and human factors are not built into the system.Brian works from the solution backwards. He believes that the best solution would be a device that doctors wear which talks to them.It will probably be in their ear and will have a microphone. It might also have glasses and give visual feedback.Scenario: A doctor visits their patient and asks the patient for permission to use the transcription device which is covered by HIPAA laws and deletes the audio file after full transcription, but the text remains. At some point, after say 30 to 50 years of patient interactions, the database will be the entire notation of the patient. It will be legally okay for a physician never to fill out a form again, because the database itself will maintain the continuity of that patient.The solution will be physicians being able to fill out notes in real time as they are talking to the patient. The intelligence will be built into the intelligence amplifier (the device) and it will extract the notes necessary to fill out the forms without a physician directing it.Brian says that if he was at Google, he would make it the size of a gum stick pack, put it with a really good set of headphones (one in one ear and one charging at any one time). It would have a light to demonstrate that it’s on. Patients would be aware when it’s recording.He believes that Google can do that today with a standalone device, but they don’t have the AI to support it.The device must not use the cloud or a network to store the patients’ data. It must instantly transcribe to a hardened local system.Links and Resources in this Episodewww.VoiceFirst.ExpertBrian Roemmele on TwitterBrian Roemmele on Quora See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This Week In Voice (Season 4 Episode 9) features guest Geraint John (founder, MOVE Digital and host of Voice for Voice) to discuss the stories of the week in voice tech and AI, including a wrap-up of The Voice of Money conference in New York City, Amazon's new Alexa bill pay announcement, news from Samsung's Developer Conference, and what makes voice assistants creepy. This Week In Voice is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

This Week In Voice (Season 4 Episode 8) features guests Diana Deibel (Lead VUI Designer, Grand Studio) and John Moon (COO, ConnectedTravel) to discuss the stories of the week in voice tech and AI, including Alexa and Google Home security vulnerabilities revealed, why homebuilders aren't liking Google Nest, Apple needs to rethink Siri completely, and two Alexa stories painting a picture of an AI-driven world to come. This Week In Voice is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

This Week In Voice (S4E7) features guest Brian Roemmele ("The #VoiceFirst Oracle," the inventor of the term "voice-first" and well-known technology pioneer) to discuss the stories of the week in voice. This particular week, we focus on just one story: the release of Google Recorder, and its many implications (both short and long-term) on the marketplace. This Week In Voice is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

This Week In Voice (S4E6) features guest Katherine Prescott (founder and editor, VoiceBrew) to discuss the stories of the week in voice tech and AI, including Alexa to be offered in all GM vehicles in 2020, Google partnering with Levi's to make a Google Assistant-enabled jacket, Siri starting to play nice with third party software providers, Microsoft's super-sized voice-first earbuds, and the thought that a robot might one day be sophisticated enough to rule a country. This Week In Voice is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

This Week In Voice (S4E5) features Peter Durlach (SVP Healthcare Strategy, Nuance) to discuss the stories of the week in voice tech and AI, including the announcement of 16 new Amazon Alexa-enabled devices, McDonalds allowing job applicants to apply for open positions with their voice through Alexa or Google Assistant, and a gin company getting into the smart speaker / voice assistant ballgame. This Week In Voice, Season 4, is sponsored by Microsoft. This Week In Voice is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

This Week In Voice (S4E4) features guests Susan Hura (CEO, Banter Technology) and Phillip Hunter (Senior Principal, [24]7.ai) to discuss the stories of the week in voice tech and AI, including the announcement of The Roast of Voicebot.AI's Bret Kinsella (taking place at Project Voice), a new Alexa skill for Oreos, new hardware getting announced by both Amazon and Google, Apple presenting at a conference on NLP, and Oracle's foray into voice/AI. Susan Hura and Phillip Hunter are co-founders of Points Made, a new conference taking place in 2020 discussing deeper issues around the emergence of conversational design. Check out the event at PointsMade.net and follow the event on Twitter at @PointsMadeForum. This Week In Voice, Season 4, is sponsored by Microsoft. This Week In Voice is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

This Week In Voice, Season 4 Episode 3, features Ramu Sunkara (CEO, Alan.AI) discussing the news of the week in voice tech and AI, including the US government using Siri and Alexa to provide Census information, McDonald's voice-first acquisition, Amazon opening Alexa up for users to provide answers to questions, and a mysterious manuscript from hundreds of centuries ago that is defying AI's best attempts to decipher it. This Week In Voice is sponsored by Microsoft and is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

John chats with Bret Kinsella, the CEO of Voicebot.ai, and Bradley Metrock, the host of This Week In Voice, about the future of Voice Platforms. The future of voice is undetermined, find our more about the potential of voice, and the how it will affect every aspect of our lives. 

This Week In Voice, Season 4 Episode 2, features Audrey Arbeeny (CEO, Audiobrain) and Braden Ream (CEO, Voiceflow). The discussion focuses on Trump's plans for Alexa and Google Assistant, how Alexa will get integrate with the car, and Google Assistant's latest actions involving banking. This Week In Voice, Season 4, is sponsored by Microsoft. This Week In Voice is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

This Week In Voice returns for Season 4, kicking off with featured guest Bret Kinsella (Editor and Publisher, Voicebot.AI) as the guest for the Season Premiere. The discussion focuses on a number of news stories, many of them negative in nature, that surfaced over a busy summer within the realm of voice tech and AI. What will the critical next evolution for voice be, between now and the end of 2019? Host Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) kicks off a new season of the #1-rated podcast. This Week In Voice, Season 4, is sponsored by Microsoft. This Week In Voice is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

Artificial Intelligence returns as host Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing; Host, This Week In Voice) interviews Bola.AI CEO and founder Rushi Ganmukhi. Leading up to The Voice of Healthcare Summit, which is returning to Harvard Medical School in August, Ganmukhi describes Bola.AI's pioneering work with the electronic health record, how the company got its start and its unique name, and what's next for AI within modern healthcare. AI is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

In this week’s #DataTalk, we chat with Bradley Metrock about voice-first technology and its impact on industry and consumer behavior. Bradley Metrock is CEO of Nashville-based Score Publishing, which helps creators find voice. Metrock founded podcast network VoiceFirst.FM, hosts the popular show This Week In Voice, published the audiobook Perspectives on Gender in #VoiceFirst Technology, produces the company’s series of VoiceFirst Events, and co-founded the industry association VoiceFirst.Community. ​ Quoted by organizations as diverse as The Mayo Clinic to Forbes to Harvard Business Review, Metrock has been cited as a leading thought leader on voice-first technology and AI, speaking regularly on its profound impact on our world. Follow him on Twitter, Youtube, and LinkedIn. Check out our upcoming data science live video chats

Host Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) interviews Samsung Bixby Developer Evangelist Roger Kibbe about the breaking news of Samsung's Bixby Developer Program. Covering a wide variety of topics ranging from monetization of voice experiences to key differences between Amazon, Google, and Samsung platforms, this interview gives listeners important information about Samsung's Bixby Developer Program and upcoming workshops taking place on both the West and East Coasts. This Week In Voice is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network. Get started with Bixby - www.bixbydevelopers.com Bixby on Github - github.com/bixbydevelopers Bixby Developer Sessions Signup - bixby.events (http://bixby.events) Bixby Premier Partners - bixby.partners (http://bixby.partners)

Host Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) interviews special guest Mark Cuban on a wide range of topics related to voice and AI. From healthcare to automotive to hospitality, Cuban gives insight on a number of compelling voice use cases, and also explains how he advises his portfolio companies to integrate voice in their operations and marketing. This episode of This Week In Voice is sponsored by Microsoft - check out Microsoft AI if you're developing voice applications for either Alexa or Google Assistant. This Week In Voice is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network, enjoyed across 56 countries by hundreds of thousands of listeners.

Host Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) looks ahead to next week's Voice of the Car Summit (www.VoiceOfTheCar.com), taking place Tuesday, April 9, in downtown San Francisco's NASDAQ Entrepreneurial Center. This Week In Voice is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

Host Bradley Metrock discusses the voice-first news of the week with guests Greg Hedges (RAIN Agency) and Ian Utile (co-founder, VoiceFirst.TV). Stories include a discussion of the current state of Alexa vs. Google Assistant, Apple's services event earlier in the week, Google Assistant in the operating room, and the importance of sonic branding to an overall voice strategy. This Week In Voice is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

Recorded in front of a live audience at the 2019 London Book Fair, host Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) interviews three publishing veterans (Bee Kapitan of Interactive Bee Media, Trevor Young and Eleanor Long of Tapocketa) on their thoughts on voice-first technology and the emergence of voice within publishing. This Week In Voice is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

Host Bradley Metrock discusses the #VoiceFirst news of the week with special guests Rachel Batish (VP Product, Audioburst) and Mark Webster (Director of Product, UX/UI, Adobe). Stories include the Alexa Accelerator's just-announced third cohort, Google's Nest mic problem, Cedars-Sinai's new Alexa pilot, smart speakers are apparently better than "mediocre," and a new Australian smart speaker for children called Birde. This Week In Voice is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

Host Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) discusses the top voice-first technology news stories of the week, with special guest Elizabeth Robins (Best Innovation Group). Stories include Google's secret microphone found in Nest devices, Apple acquires PullString, can smart speakers and voice assistants be hacked, and the launch of the VoiceFirst.Community industry trade association. This Week In Voice is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

In this episode, Teri welcomes Brian Roemmele, “The Oracle of Voice” and “The Modern Day Thomas Edison”Welcome Brian Roemmele!Brian is the consummate Renaissance man. He is a scientist, researcher, analyst, connector, thinker and doer. He is also referred to as the “Oracle of Voice” and is actually credited for having come up with the term “Voice First”. Over the long, winding arc of his career, Brian has built and run payments and tech businesses, worked in media, including the promotion of top musicians, and explored a variety of other subjects along the way.He actively shares his findings and observations across fora like Forbes, Huffington Post, Newsweek, Slate, Business Insider, Daily Mail, Inc, Gizmodo, Medium, Quora (An exclusive Quora top writer for: 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, and 2013), Twitter (quoted and published), Around the Coin (earliest crypto currency podcast), Breaking Banks Radio and This Week In Voice on VoiceFirst.fm that surfaces everything from Bitcoin to Voice Commerce. He recently spoke at the 2019 Alexa Conference about where voice technology is going and introduced some of his incredible ideas.Where Voice Technology is goingThe talk he did at the Alexa Conference was dubbed “The Last Interface” and was based on the term “What if?”The Last Interface refers to the last interface that we will have with technology.We type to computers because they cannot understand our volition and our intent.Computers are already intelligent enough with current technology to take a user’s context and present to them the information that they are searching for. That’s the premise of The Last Interface.Intelligence AmplificationBrian presented this idea by searching through history how we developed the concept of why we speak (why we developed language). He found that we did it because our brain got too large.Humans had to offload memories into archival systems which became known as writing. Typing is an example of an extension of an archival system which means we are storing the things that we can’t pass on generationally on an offloaded system. Computers took over that and now we archive in systems and places like websites, Google, PDFs, and others, but it’s still an archival system and it still doesn’t transmit the volition and intent of an individual. The short term aspect is what Brian calls “The Intelligence Amplify”He doesn’t fully believe in the concept of AI (Artificial Intelligence) because he doesn’t think we can fully define what intelligence is in humans and where it comes from, and therefore, we cannot artificially create it in any way, shape and form that is human like.We have been trying to amplify our intelligence by archiving our world and our stories, whether they be allegorical, mythological or “factual”. Factual is as we see it today. All of our facts today will 1,000 to 10,000 years from now look allegorical to people because they will not be facts any longer, they will be seen as primitive.The Intelligence Amplify takes in everything around us. How this works; in this world, with the technology that exists today, the moment you’re born to the moment you die, is a device that will have a camera and a microphone. Assume that it has the highest security you can ever imagine and it never goes on the internet (it has no internet connection). It’s recording everything you’ve ever seen, everything you’ve ever read, every comment you’ve made, every comment you’ve heard, and everything is archived. All those things will be presented to you as the basis of your AI to derive context and to understand not only your paradigm (how you make you as you because you are the sum total of the experiences, good and bad, that define us as human beings), and so it starts amplifying your intelligence.During his talk at the 2019 Alexa Conference, he pointed out that the human being discards (exformation) over 99% of everything that comes through our senses.With The Intelligence Amplify, the best of us can be amplified.The Wisdom KeeperWhen we die, everything is thrown away, but not in the world of The Last Interface, because the next stage is called The Wisdom Keeper.The Wisdom Keeper (your Wisdom Keeper) is important because it is the sum total of all of your experiences, the essence of your experiences. Every human being has some wisdom to contribute to the world.A person’s Wisdom Keeper will be their testament, who they were.Listener Questions Do you feel that society is actually ready for what Brian has described (The Last Interface, The Intelligence Amplifier and The Wisdom Keeper)Will we ever be ready for the scenario that Brian is describing?Will this happen by default (is it already happening)?Use the Twitter hashtag #AIC66 to tweet your responses to the questions. Feel free to ask Brian a question and I will curate those questions and ask them to Brian at a future date. List of resources mentioned in this episode:The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size 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.

In this episode, Teri welcomes Brian Roemmele, the “Oracle of Voice” and the “Modern Day Thomas Edison. Brian is the consummate Renaissance man. He is a scientist, researcher, analyst, connector, thinker and doer. He is actually credited for having come up with the term “Voice First”. Over the long, winding arc of his career, Brian has built and run payments and tech businesses, worked in media, including the promotion of top musicians, and explored a variety of other subjects along the way.Brian actively shares his findings and observations across fora like Forbes, Huffington Post, Newsweek, Slate, Business Insider, Daily Mail, Inc, Gizmodo, Medium, Quora (An exclusive Quora top writer for: 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, and 2013), Twitter (quoted and published), Around the Coin (earliest crypto currency podcast), Breaking Banks Radio and This Week In Voice on VoiceFirst.fm that surfaces everything from Bitcoin to Voice Commerce.Key Points from Brian!The future of Voice: The Last Interface, the Intelligence Amplifier and the Wisdom KeeperWhere Voice Technology is goingThe talk he did at the Alexa Conference was dubbed “The Last Interface” and was based on the term “What if?”The Last Interface refers to the last interface that we will have with technology.We type to computers because they cannot understand our volition and our intent.Computers are already intelligent enough with current technology to take a user’s context and present to them the information that they are searching for. That’s the premise of The Last Interface.Intelligence AmplificationBrian presented this idea by searching through history how we developed the concept of why we speak (why we developed language). He found that we did it because our brain got too large.Humans had to offload memories into archival systems which became known as writing. Typing is an example of an extension of an archival system which means we are storing the things that we can’t pass on generationally on an offloaded system. Computers took over that and now we archive in systems and places like websites, Google, PDFs, and others, but it’s still an archival system and it still doesn’t transmit the volition and intent of an individual. The short term aspect is what Brian calls “The Intelligence Amplify”He doesn’t fully believe in the concept of AI (Artificial Intelligence) because he doesn’t think we can fully define what intelligence is in humans and where it comes from, and therefore, we cannot artificially create it in any way, shape and form that is human like.We have been trying to amplify our intelligence by archiving our world and our stories, whether they be allegorical, mythological or “factual”. Factual is as we see it today. All of our facts today will 1,000 to 10,000 years from now look allegorical to people because they will not be facts any longer, they will be seen as primitive.The Intelligence Amplify takes in everything around us. How this works; in this world, with the technology that exists today, the moment you’re born to the moment you die, is a device that will have a camera and a microphone. Assume that it has the highest security you can ever imagine and it never goes on the internet (it has no internet connection). It’s recording everything you’ve ever seen, everything you’ve ever read, every comment you’ve made, every comment you’ve heard, and everything is archived. All those things will be presented to you as the basis of your AI to derive context and to understand not only your paradigm (how you make you as you because you are the sum total of the experiences, good and bad, that define us as human beings), and so it starts amplifying your intelligence.During his talk at the 2019 Alexa Conference, he pointed out that the human being discards (exformation) over 99% of everything that comes through our senses.With The Intelligence Amplify, the best of us can be amplified.The Wisdom KeeperWhen we die, everything is thrown away, but not in the world of The Last Interface, because the next stage is called The Wisdom Keeper.The Wisdom Keeper (your Wisdom Keeper) is important because it is the sum total of all of your experiences, the essence of your experiences. All that data will be stored on your person in form of a holographic crystal memory.Every human being has some wisdom to contribute to the world.A person’s Wisdom Keeper will be their testament, who they were.Holographic Crystal MemoryThe breaches of people’s personal data like emails, pictures and others, and having that data leaked out to the greater public, will lead to some sort of rebellion to the idea that we will all have our privacy reaped apart.We are made to be private because that creates the dignity of an individual.The cloud has proven itself to be ineffectual to store even a few emails. Brian is not advocating for storing everything in the cloud, he just advocates that we are going to do it regardless, but hopes that people will be guided on it.When we have an intelligence amplifier in the wisdom keeper world, the penalty for hacking this non-internet connected device without the permission of an individual will be equivalent to a murder one charge.With current technology, we can store 15 to 20 years of a person’s life easily. These devices will eventually go smaller.In future, we will have holographic crystal memory. Crystalline structures are incredibly stable for holding information over long periods of time. We are using nano-doping within crystals to create the substrate that allows us to store information.The sum total of our experiences will be stored in holographic crystal memory because it will sustain over the ages. It is the survival archival system that will have the throughput, bandwidth, and storage system (petabyte capabilities) to store every single waking and sleeping moment of a person’s life.Links and Resources in this EpisodeThe User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to SizeDr. Teri Fisher on TwitterDr. Teri Fisher on LinkedInPlease leave a review on iTunes See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Host Bradley Metrock discusses the #VoiceFirst news of the week with guests Katherine Prescott (Founder, Voicebrew) and James Vlahos (Author, Talk To Me), including Spotify's amazing week, listening to Choose Your Own Adventure books with Alexa, smart speakers being tested at Disney resorts, and Prescott's own article for Business Insider. This Week In Voice is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

Host Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) discusses the #VoiceFirst news of the week with Emily Binder (Voice Marketing Strategist, Beetle Moment Marketing) and Jason Fields (Chief Strategy Officer, Voicify). Stories include Amazon's humorous Super Bowl ad, Siri Shortcuts can be used to steal and send personal data, Walmart backs out of Google Express and Google Shopping Actions, the BBC asks are smart speakers good for kids, and we ponder a 'post-gender' world with the final story. This Week In Voice is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

On the heels of The 2019 Alexa Conference, host Bradley Metrock discusses the #VoiceFirst news of the week with guests Brielle Nickoloff (Witlingo) and Lucas Wonderley (SAP). Stories include KFC opening up voice-first ordering in India, Sherpa.AI raising $8.5M, and Alexa saying something truly offensive perhaps for the first time ever. This Week In Voice is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

This Week In Voice host Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) turns on the mic, right before the holidays, to thank listeners for sharing such a great year for voice-first technology with us. We preview The Alexa Conference (coming up in January) and reflect on the top 3 stories of the year. This Week In Voice is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

Rebecca Evanhoe (VUI designer), Doug Robinson (CEO, Fresh Digital Group), and Wilson Standish (Director of Voice, Gimlet Media) join host Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) to discuss the voice technology news of the week, including Apple Music coming to Amazon Echo devices, Google Maps optimized for use with Google Assistant, Amazon doubles audio clip size available to developers, and experts warn AI could hardwire sexism into our future. This Week In Voice is part of the VoiceFirst.FM global podcast network.

Ben Fox Rubin (Senior Reporter, CNET) joins host Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) to discuss the voice technology news of the week, including the current shortcomings of voice commerce, Amazon's massive sales of Alexa-enabled devices over Black Friday weekend, Cornell University's study of how smart speakers are creating passive listeners, and how one man in Japan decided to marry a hologram. This Week In Voice is part of the VoiceFirst.FM global podcast network.

In this episode, Teri welcomes Brian Roemmele, a scientist, researcher, analyst, connector, thinker and doer. He is referred to as the “Oracle of Voice” and is actually credited for having come up with the term “Voice First”. Over the long, winding arc of his career, Brian has built and run payments and tech businesses, worked in media, including the promotion of top musicians, and explored a variety of other subjects along the way.Brian actively shares his findings and observations across fora like Forbes, Huffington Post, Newsweek, Slate, Business Insider, Daily Mail, Inc, Gizmodo, Medium, Quora (An exclusive Quora top writer for: 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, and 2013), Twitter (quoted and published), Around the Coin (earliest crypto currency podcast), Breaking Banks Radio and This Week In Voice on VoiceFirst.fm that surfaces everything from Bitcoin to Voice Commerce.Key points from Brian!The exciting aspects of a true voice first personal assistant.A Thought ExperimentWaking up from being born there is a device which your parents and family agree to have on them at all times.The device is highly secured and not connected to the internet and it only sends and brings information.It records the story of your life in audio and video imagery that you will probably never look at.That will be the beginning of your voice first assistant (voice first, not voice only).It becomes a memory system for you. Throughout your life you’re going to refer back to it in simple commands like, “Alfred, was I on March 22, 2037 at 3pm”The only way all that works is if there is a form of highly regarded privacy. None of the information in the personal assistant will be on the cloud or in the internet.You are a 49 year old father of three and you are driving along in your self-driving car and unfortunately the car decides to drive off a cliff due a glitch in the program. What’s left is phenomenal; your voice first personal assistant.There will have to be rules and laws of how that information will be stored or erased.A program might be there to eliminate all those things that you don’t want your children to have raw access to, but you will want them to have access to the sum total of what your knowledge and experience was. That will form the book of your life.That book of your life might generate into a hologram or embodied in a robotic system.When your son turns 28 years old, he might turn to your essence (your voice first assistant which is still there) and say, “Dad, I’m getting married today and I need some advice. How did you do it?”The voice first assistant can respond as a third person and in the first person and advise him based on your experience.What we will have is the ability to audit memories that these people have allowed to be audited and be able to have conversations with those memories.The Voice First RevolutionWe will be using our computer in a much different way.Social media will look a lot of different that it does today.We will look things up but we will be asking for the best results.Voice commerce (shopping) will be a massive industry just web commerce and mobile commerce really made the internet.Advertising will be much more different. We are not going to be interrupted or allow our experiences to be adulterated, but we will seek out experts and influencers that we have concluded through our smart assistants that will have researched on our behalf.The Meaning of Voice First Health to BrianElderly people are becoming isolated because of the reality of societal existence as we are today. We used to live communally as big family but now we separate ourselves.The elderly don’t get to speak very often because nobody wants to talk to them anymore.Voice first technology will enable the elderly to at least create some dialogue and ask questions. The technology is extending their usable lives. They are able to inform themselves, reach out into the world, get access to podcasts and get access to information that they would not have had access to because the user interface is not getting in the way.Links and Resources in this Episode Voice First Revolution with Brian Roemmele (Part 1 of this Interview)Brian on TwitterBrian on QuoraDr. Teri Fisher on TwitterDr. Teri Fisher on LinkedInPlease leave a review on iTunes See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode, Teri welcomes the "Oracle of Voice", Brian RoemmeleWelcome Brian Loemmele!Brian is the consummate Renaissance man. He is a scientist, researcher, analyst, connector, thinker and doer. He is also referred to as the “Oracle of Voice” and is actually credited for having come up with the term “Voice First”. Over the long, winding arc of his career, Brian has built and run payments and tech businesses, worked in media, including the promotion of top musicians, and explored a variety of other subjects along the way.Brian actively shares his findings and observations across fora like Forbes, Huffington Post, Newsweek, Slate, Business Insider, Daily Mail, Inc, Gizmodo, Medium, Quora (An exclusive Quora top writer for: 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, and 2013), Twitter (quoted and published), Around the Coin (earliest crypto currency podcast), Breaking Banks Radio and This Week In Voice on VoiceFirst.fm that surfaces everything from Bitcoin to Voice Commerce.Getting into VoiceInitially thought he would be a physicist. Studied physics very early.He had a love for physics, astrophysics, astrobiology, mathematics, computers and a lot of other things.As a young boy he had friends whose parents worked at Bell Laboratories and that was how he saw a voice synthesizer for the first time.He was always interested in astronomy. The physics, mathematics and computer programming aspects of it was coming to play. He was always thinking what the technology would look like in the future. He started writing what he calls the “Voice Manifesto” which is now “Voice First” and it was based upon what he was seeing taking place and what he started to see as a true AI-informed personal assistant.He had to put a lot of that work to the side as the technology in the early 90s wasn’t there to achieve the things he knew they needed to achieve.He went into payments because he developed some of the first point-of-sale systems and later on some of the first payment systems that integrated with online shopping carts.The Voice RevolutionWe are in the embryotic stage of the voice first revolution.Because the computer was so dumb and so slow when it was invented, we had to invent a new way to communicate with it. We developed the keyboard and then the mouse.Steve jobs informed the first major revolution in computer-human interaction with the graphical user interface which liberated the human from having to remember a series of commands to inform a computer to do something.The next liberation was the touch screen.He had predicted that we would ultimately end up talking to our computers and they would understand us in a very practical way.Voice will be the way we do things.Anybody can increase their creativity by a huge margin just by talking to a recorder while they’re walking around to document their ideas. To be really good at it one can use Siri text-to-speech recording on the iPhone or the Android equivalent.It’s called a revolution because we are finally going to be liberated from being tied to the machine, and being the end project of a Google search. We can find 12 Billion results in a half a second on Google but we still have to sort it out.Amazon naming their assistant Alexa and Google not naming theirsWe tend to anthropomorphize anything that has human characteristics.If it has a female quality voice we are going to call it a “she”The female voice is a voice of authority because it’s the very first sound we hear before and after we are born.When we hear the female voice we assign it authority. Research shows we perk up when we hear our mom’s voice and our mom can command us to do things that no other human can do even at an older age.List of resources mentioned in this episode:Personal Voice Assistant with Brian Roemmele (Part 2 of this Interview)Brian on TwitterBrian on QuoraOther 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.

With a last-minute need to reschedule our previously-scheduled guests, we invited friend of the show Brian Roemmele - the person who coined the term "voice-first" - to join us. Host Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) discussed with Brian the top stories in voice-first technology, in his mind, as we head toward the end of the year. The result is a wide-ranging hour-long conversation touching on a number of very relevant issues in the young space, and a look ahead to issues that will shape voice technology well into 2019. This Week In Voice is brought to you by Castlingo, which allows anyone to create an Alexa skill without knowing any code by using Witlingo's mobile app to upload audio - super easy for anyone from podcasters to publishers to politicians and anyone else! This Week In Voice is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

Pete Erickson (CEO, Modev) and Bret Kinsella (Editor and Publisher, Voicebot.AI) join host Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) to discuss the voice technology news of the week, including Alexa's 4th birthday, Google partnering with Disney and Sephora, Samsung going "all in" on Bixby, and a report that young people favor female voices with voice assistants. This Week In Voice is part of the VoiceFirst.FM global podcast network.

Anne Weiler (CEO and co-founder of Wellpepper) and Matt Cybulsky (Principal, IONIA) join host Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) to discuss the voice technology news of the week, including the announcement of APL (Alexa Presentation Language), Alexa adding election information for voters leading up to midterm elections, Google partnering with Spotify, and voice-first healthcare delivered by Suki and Cuida Health. This Week In Voice is part of the VoiceFirst.FM global podcast network.

Mari Lescaille (VoiceFirst Weekly) along with Kane Simms and Dustin Coates (VUX World) join host Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) to discuss the voice technology news of the week, including whether Alexa should "be afraid" of Google, Amazon's partnership with Qualcomm to produce Alexa-enabled headphones, Samsung's latest features for Bixby rolling out at an upcoming developer conference, and reports from Carnegie Mellon on sound and vibration supporting "context-aware" computing. This Week In Voice is part of the VoiceFirst.FM global podcast network.

Stuart Crane (CEO and founder of Voice Metrics) and Ben Fisher (CEO and founder of Magic + Company) join host Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) to discuss the voice technology news of the week, including children growing up knowing Alexa, Amazon patenting technology for Alexa to know if you're sick, Google fighting for voice commerce market share and the overall state of voice-first purchasing, and whether we need a voice-first "smart couch" or not. This Week In Voice is part of the VoiceFirst.FM global podcast network.

An all-star panel (Brian Garr, Daniel Gonzalez) join host Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) to discuss the growing competition for multi-modal supremacy, 61% of Alexa skills have no ratings, Google Duplex on the new Pixel phone, the newest cohort of Alexa Accelerator companies, and over a million people proposed to Alexa last year! This Week In Voice is part of the VoiceFirst.FM global podcast network.

An all-star panel (Joan Palmiter Bajorek of Women in Voice; UX/marketing consultant Sabrina Delale) discuss the latest in voice technology news, including Amazon's play for attention, Google teaming up with Roku, Apple teaming up with Salesforce, and what goes into the creation of a virtual assistant persona. This Week In Voice is hosted by Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing), sponsored by VoiceFirst Events (VoiceFirstEvents.com), and is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

An all-star panel (Obaid Ahmed of Botmock; Duane Forrester of Yext) discuss the latest in voice technology news, including Amazon's product blitzkrieg replete with Alexa-enabled microwave, subwoofer, and smart plug, SoundHound's latest partnership to get Houndify inside Mercedes' MBUX in-car ecosystem, Google's approach to voice-first home security, whether Apple's Siri Shortcuts app moves any sort of needle in the industry, and Lenovo's new multi-modal marketing message. This Week In Voice is hosted by Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing), sponsored by VoiceFirst Events (VoiceFirstEvents.com), and is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

This Week In Voice returns for Season 3 with special guests Cathy Pearl (Google) and Noelle LaCharite (Microsoft). Stories include whether Google Assistant being bilingual is as big a deal as it sounds, Amazon and Microsoft's partnership together growing, Google's push toward "digital wellbeing," and lots of folks cursing at a Walrus! This Week In Voice is hosted by Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) and part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

The Voice Summit took place in Newark, New Jersey, from July 24-26, and This Week In Voice was there! Featured guest Heidi Culbertson (CEO and founder, Ask Marvee) discusses the Summit with host Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing). Additional guests include Mike Atkinson (Orderscape), Adva Levin (Pretzel Labs), Ilya Ozerets (ID R&D), Will Hall (RAIN Agency), and Ilana Shalowitz and Brian Bauman (Wolters Kluwer Health). This Week In Voice is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

The Season Finale for Season 2 of This Week In Voice, which also serves as a preview to this fall's Digital Book World 2018 (Oct 2-4, Nashville TN) features legendary technology journalist Walt Mossberg, along with longtime corporate communications veteran Karen Wickre, discussing the latest in voice technology news, including whether the litany of Amazon Alexa-enabled devices has grown too complex, whether Google Assistant is truly on the rise, and the state of Apple, Siri, and the HomePod. Letter grades are assigned, by our celebrity panel, to the work each of these three companies has done thus far in the voice-first technology space, before moving to a discussion on the convergence of audiobooks, podcasts, and voice assistants/smart speakers that will very soon re-shape the publishing landscape. This Week In Voice is hosted by Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) and is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

In a special preview edition of the upcoming 2019 Alexa Conference, Presented By VoiceFirst.FM (and sponsored by Amazon) (www.voicefirst.fm/alexaconference), Dave Kemp (Business Development Manager, Oaktree Products) and Kesha Williams (Software Engineering Manager, Chick-Fil-A) discuss the latest in voice technology news, including the current market share information for smart speakers within the United States, the Echo Show now being available to the public, Siri's next frontier, Sonos' new Beam soundbar, and conflicting views on whether Amazon's Echo Dot Kids is appropriate for children. This Week In Voice is hosted by Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) and is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

In a special preview edition of the upcoming Voice of Healthcare Summit (www.VOHSummit.com), Laurie Orlov (Principal Analyst, Aging In Place Technology Watch) and Nate Treloar (President and COO, Orbita) discuss the latest in healthcare-oriented voice technology news, including a discussion of the state of AI within healthcare, the extent to which Amazon's Alexa is ready to support healthcare operations, Suki's $20 million voice assistant for doctors, and the role Google Duplex may play within modern healthcare delivery. This Week In Voice is hosted by Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) and is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

An all-star panel (Florian Hollandt of Jovo; Adva Levin of Pretzel Labs; Ryan MacInnis of Voysis) discuss the latest in voice technology news, including Google Home beating Amazon Echo in Q1 2018 shipment numbers, Amazon and Google battling for supremacy in India, Apple's rumored new smart speaker carrying the Beats brand, Samsung's push to have Bixby in all devices by 2020, and a hilarious and insightful exchange between a frustrated Scottish woman and her Alexa device. This Week In Voice is hosted by Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) and is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

An all-star panel (Doug Schumacher, the creator of "Homie and Lexy," and Emma Furlong and Helen Yu, both of Clinc) discuss the latest in voice technology news, including the Yanny vs Laurel debate seizing social media, Moms increasingly owning smart speakers, Google Home beats Amazon Echo in two audio recognition performance tests, a discussion on whether Apple, Amazon, and Facebook the future of banking, and a piece from Opus Research's Dan Miller on Google Duplex. This Week In Voice is hosted by Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) and is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

The all-star duo from Voicebot.AI (Editor Bret Kinsella and Associate Editor Ava Mutchler) discuss the latest in voice technology news, including the shockwaves created by Google I/O, including Google Duplex; the revelation that Alexa Skill engagement rose 75% in 2017, a discussion of Microsoft's integration of Cortana with Amazon's Alexa, and a British inventor who decided to convert Alexa into a dominatrix. This Week In Voice is hosted by Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) and is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

Show NotesThanks to voice industry podcast host Bradley Metrock (@bmetrock) for inspiring this week's episode via This Week In Voice.Millennial fanboy voice by Josh Schumacher (@jschumacher10).Homie & Lexy is written and produced by Doug Schumacherwww.dougschumacher.com/Allison Beda of A Muse Productions — script doctorwww.allisonbeda.com

Artificial Intelligence returns for another mini-slate of episodes, as host Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing, and Host, This Week In Voice) sits down with Monica Landers (CEO, Storyfit). This former ABC News producer, who will be speaking at Digital Book World 2018 (www.DigitalBookWorld.com) in Nashville this fall, now heads up a fascinating company which is applying artificial intelligence to the realm of storytelling, offering services to book publishers and film publishers to help them evaluate stories, determine optimal marketing fit, and more. Artificial Intelligence is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

An all-star duo (Pete Erickson of Modev / Voice Summit; Amy Stapleton of Tellables / VoiceFirstFiction.com) discuss the latest in voice technology news, including Google's new investment program for companies developing for Google Assistant, new reporting on primary use cases for smart speakers, Apple's Siri caught in another gaffe, a Slate article about dating men who yell at Alexa, and the debut of a new type of Pac-Man on Amazon's Alexa platform. This Week In Voice is hosted by Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) and is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

An all-star panel (Theo Lau, founder of Unconventional Ventures; Katie McMahon, VP and GM of SoundHound Inc., and renowned #VoiceFirst expert Brian Roemmele) discuss the latest in voice technology news, including Amazon's release of a children's version of the Echo Dot, Harvard Business Review's examination of marketing in the age of Alexa, Google's bold new podcasting strategy, the battle heating up for voice technology in connected cars, and Facebook's delay of its smart speaker entrants into the marketplace. This Week In Voice is hosted by Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) and is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

An all-star duo (Lauren Golembiewski of Voxable; Michael Fitzpatrick of PullString) discuss the latest in voice technology news, including Adobe's acquisition of #VoiceFirst startup Sayspring, Apple's HomePod predicted to only sell two million units, Amazon's release of the Intent Request API, Google's advances in AI in advertising and publishing, and the BBC's piece on "I Tried To Make Alexa My Best Friend." This Week In Voice is hosted by Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) and is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

An all-star panel (Ilana Shalowitz and Joseph Dangelmaier, both of Emmi Solutions / Wolters Kluwer Health, and Nick Brown of Effct) discuss the latest in voice technology news, including Apple's flashy new hire of Google's former AI executive, Alexa showing up everywhere, Google and Target teaming up for a voice-first ad campaign, and a report that voice technology is bolstered by family activities and routines. This Week In Voice is hosted by Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) and is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

The team from St. Louis-based voice experience developer VoiceXP (Bob Stolzberg, Bonnie Snyder, and Mark Tucker) join This Week In Voice to discuss the latest in voice technology news, including the positioning of IBM Watson as a secure and private alternative to Alexa, Google Assistant's new retail/commerce actions, Apple executives sniping at each other on Twitter, and whether Alexa and other voice assistants get in the way of our relationships to each other as well as our religious beliefs. Hosted by Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) and part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network. And stay tuned, once the music rolls at the end of the episode, for the newest episode of comedy special Homie & Lexy!

The co-founders of Aiqudo (www.aiqudo.com) join This Week In Voice to discuss the latest in voice technology news, including Alexa's "follow-up mode," Google Assistant's "multi-step routines," being able to use both voice assistants on tablets, how soon we'll see consumers using Alexa for person-to-person banking, and "Siri for slopes," a bot developed for Vail, Colorado. Hosted by Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) and part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

This Week In Voice returns with a look at stories coming out of CES, as well as a preview of The Alexa Conference, coming up Jan 18-20 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Special guests include Tim Kahle and Dominik Meissner of Germany's 169 Labs. This Week In Voice is hosted by Bradley Metrock and is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

An all-star panel (Ahmed Bouzid, Brian Roemmele, Mark Tucker) reunites to discuss the year in review for voice technology. Episode 21 marks the final episode of Season 1 of This Week In Voice, and the show will return for Season 2 beginning in January. Hosted by Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) and part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

Joined by #VoiceFirst leader John Kelvie (CEO and founder of Bespoken), Episode 19 of This Week In Voice discusses the latest in voice technology news, focused primarily on AWS Re:Invent, Amazon's annual conference. Stories discussed include Alexa's new monetization, notifications being made available for use to developers, Alexa launching "Alexa for Business," concerns over the future of voice-first search on Alexa and other voice assistants, an evaluation of Apple's failures with HomePod, U2 promoting its new album through an Alexa radio-style broadcast, and the winner of the inaugural Alexa Prize. Hosted by Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) and part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

In the October 2017 episode of "Artificial Intelligence," host Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing, and host of VoiceFirst.FM podcasts "This Week In Voice" and "The VoiceFirst Roundtable") interviews Dr. Peter Cahill, CEO and founder of Voysis. The discussion covers Dr. Cahill's decades of experience in voice and speech processing, how Voysis got started, how Voysis interacts with clients to manage data and glean insights that will inform the construction of voice services, and much more. ("AI" is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.)

Editor and publisher of voice technology / AI news and commentary website Voicebot.ai Bret Kinsella is the sole guest on this week of This Week In Voice, as he and host Bradley Metrock discuss the growth of smart speaker sales in FY17, Amazon's Echo hardware being sold in Kohl's retail stores, Samsung's Bixby and Alibaba's Tmall Genie, and even a discussion on whether Apple's HomePod can be competitive in the marketplace, and Bret Kinsella's favorite thing Amazon has done in voice technology so far this year. It's a can't-miss episode. This Week In Voice is hosted by Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) and is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

In this delayed episode from September 2017, host Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing, and host of VoiceFirst.FM podcasts "This Week In Voice" and "The VoiceFirst Roundtable") interviews Rand Hindi, CEO and founder of Snips (Snips.AI). This wide-ranging discussion covers Snips' technology and core product, Hindi's own prodigal background as a programmer and entrepreneur, and more.

The youngest-ever guest panelist (Brendan Hersh, 16 years of age) joins the #VoiceFirst sage Brian Roemmele to discuss the latest in voice technology news, centering primarily on Google's massive announcement of several voice-first products including the Google Home Max and Google Home Mini. This Week In Voice is hosted by Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) and is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

An all-star panel (Carrie Claiborn, Tara Kelly, Cathy Pearl) discuss the latest in voice technology news, including Amazon's blistering Seattle press event in which the company revealed numerous new Alexa-enabled products and additional news items, Google's decision to pull YouTube from the Echo Show, Google's announcement of the audiophile-friendly Google Home Max, and The VoiceFirst Roundtable's September episode featuring tech luminary Tim O'Reilly. This Week In Voice is hosted by Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) and is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

This Week In Voice traveled to the Intelligent Assistants Conference, which took place September 2017 in San Francisco, California. Put together by Opus Research, the #IAConf was a day and a half of great speakers and panels and we were able to interview several of them about current trends. Interviewees in this episode include Dan Miller, Livio Pugliese, Nandini Stocker, Mandy Chan, Mark Stephen Meadows, Andy Peart, Cathy Pearl, and Brian Roemmele. This is a special edition episode of This Week In Voice, which is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

An all-star panel (Emily M. Bender, Karen Kaushansky, Jess Thornhill) discuss the latest in voice technology news, including Amazon's upcoming foray into #VoiceFirst Alexa-driven glasses, Voicebot.ai's Story Of The Week in which VoiceLabs reports voice apps are getting double the "retention" over nine months ago, Amazon's Fire HD 10 tablet as an "Echo Show in tablet form," Google's new Google Home Mini hitting the market on October 4, Roku's smart speaker offering heading to market, and a riveting discussion around whether developing Alexa skills is essentially working for Amazon for free. The Medium post referenced by Emily M. Bender in this episode, "Google Home vs. Alexa: Two Simple User Experience Design Gestures That Delighted A Female User," can be found here: https://medium.com/startup-grind/google-home-vs-alexa-56e26f69ac77 This Week In Voice is hosted by Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) and is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

In this debut episode, host Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing, and host of VoiceFirst.FM podcasts "This Week In Voice" and "The VoiceFirst Roundtable") interviews Joshua Montgomery, CEO of Mycroft AI. The fascinating discussion spans the origin of the company, how the company got its name, Montgomery's views on whether AI is an existential threat to humanity, and the need for an ecosystem of smaller companies to check the power of larger ones.