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Voice summit is the largest annual gathering of conversational AI professionals. Voicebot took the opportunity to interview several industry leaders to get their perspectives on the conversational AI market today and where it is headed. In this Part 2 from the Voice 2022 interviews, we have six more guests, including: - Sara Taheri of Prudential interviewing Kan Simms, VUX World (6:08) - Brandon Kaplan, Skilled Creative (9:35) - Corey Hill, Veritone (14:21) - Maddie Apple, Women in Voice (18:39) - Ian Utile, Attention Live (23:35) - Tim Kahle and Dominik Meissner, 169 Labs (33:08) Topics range from the conversation design for the contact center and an integration layer for voice AI solutions to use cases in Europe and a new sporting event product that employs synthetic announcers and in-game data.
In this episode, I had a chat with Tim Kahle who shared how he got into Voice UI (VUI), how the market evolved, and where he sees Voice UI is heading to He also shared about how he launched his company just focusing on Voice.
In this episode, Roger talks with Tim Kahle and Dominik Meißner of 169 Labs. Tim and Dominik are voice OG's and have a long history of building compelling voice experiences.Roger, Tim, and Dominik discuss:Their first experiences with voiceTheir infamous travel experiences getting to the seminal 2018 Alexa ConferenceHow and why 169 Labs was foundedSome early 169 Labs voice experiencesThe evolution of voice from 2017 to the presentHow user's expectations of voice have changed and have not changedWhy simplicity winsBuilding voice apps for kidsWhat industries in Germany are building voice experiencesVoice industry adoption and usage in Germany and EuropeWhat's holding back voice adoptionAdvances in voice technology and what's neededTim and Dominik's hidden gem voice experiencesTheir prediction for the short term and long term futureLinks from the Show169 Labs - www.169labs.comAll About Voice conferences and events - www.allaboutvoice.ioKeeping in TouchTim on Twitter - @kahleTim on LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/timkahleDominik on Twitter - @d_meissnerDominik on LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/dominik-meissner169 Labs on Twitter - @169labsHost: Roger Kibbe(@rogerkibbe) is a senior developer evangelist for Samsungwww.linkedin.com/in/rkibbeEpisodesAll Bixby Developers Chat Episodes are available on your favorite podcast player and at:bixbydev.buzzsprout.comMore about BixbySamsung Bixby is a next-generation, AI platform that enables developers to build rich voice and conversational AI experiences for the Bixby Marketplace, and Bixby devices including phones, watches, televisions, smart appliances, and more.Bixby Developers Homepage - https://bixbydevelopers.com/Bixby Developers Github - https://github.com/bixbydevelopersBixby Developers YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/bixbydevelopersBixby Developers Twitter - twitter.com/BixbyDevelopersBixby Developers Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/BixbyDevelopers/Support the show (https://www.bixbydevelopers.com)
We catch up with 4 Amazon Alexa Champions to discuss the then, now and future of the Alexa skills ecosystem and the voice first community.Presented by ReadspeakerReadspeaker is a pioneering voice technology company that provides lifelike Text to Speech (TTS) services.Whether you're needing a TTS voice for your IVR system, voice application, automobile, robot, public service announcement system, website or anywhere else, Readspeaker have you covered.They've been in the TTS game for over 20 years and have in-depth knowledge and experience in AI and Deep Neural Networks, which they put to work in creating custom TTS voices for the world's biggest brands.If you're in the market for any form of TTS technology, check out Readspeaker today.In this episodeThe Alexa Champions program is an honorary award given by Amazon in recognition of great service to the Alexa platform and ecosystem.All four of today's guests are Alexa Champions, and they take us for a walk down memory lane and discuss:what the community and the voice first ecosystem was like when they first startedwhat made them start building Alexa skillsthe signs that signalled things were going wellthe current state of the voice first communitywhat they wish for in futureSteve Arkonovich and Eric Olsen were two of the very first Alexa Champions. Nick Schwab followed in the next batch, then Tim Kahle.Steve was building skills before the Alexa Skills Kit even existed! Over time, he's built up a rack of skills published under his company, Philosophical Creations. His skill, Big Sky, is one of the most used skills on the platforms and is to this day a sterling example of a great voice first and multi modal experience.Some of Eric Olsen's first skills were Complibot and Insultibot, skills that generate random compliments and insults for users every day. Eric is the founder of 3PO Labs has always been a keen member of the voice community and is one of the most active members in the Alexa Slack channel, offering help, advice and guidance for budding skill developers.Nick Schwab is the founder of Invoked apps and runs some of the most used skills on the Alexa platform. His suite of sleep sounds bring in around 300,000 users per day, a side hustle that famously earned him enough money to buy a Tesla.Tim Kahle is the co-founder of 169 Labs, based out of Germany and the organiser of the All About Voice conference. Tim and co-founder, Dominik Meißner, won an Alexa hackathon in Germany in 2016, released a series of skills and founded one of the leading voice agencies in Germany off the back of it. The All About Voice conference in Munich is the leading voice first event in Europe.LinksSteve on Twitter and LinkedInEric on Twitter and LinkedInNick on Twitter and LinkedInTim on Twitter and LinkedIn See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Podcaster and Co-founder of Germany's All About Voice conference Tim Kahle highlights recent developments in Europe's voice interface ecosystem and elaborates on his own passion for getting the technology right.
This week's interviews were conducted onsite at the All About Voice Conference in Munich, Germany. That enabled us to capture the European (and Isreali and even some U.S.) perspective on voice assistant adoption. The five guests come from France, Germany, Isreal, and Poland. We discuss European voice assistant adoption, voice UX design principles, open source versus proprietary software approaches, voice assistant experiments in primary education, voice in podcasting and media, and enterprise voice adoption. Guests appear in this order: - 3:08 Jan König, co-founder and CEO of Jovo - 13:35 Adva Levin, founder and CEO of Pretzl Labs - 25:18 Alexis Hue, Managing Director at Voice & You, Partner at Via ID - 36:39 Karol Stryja, Chief Podcast Officer at Abstra - 44:45 Tim Kahle, co-founder and CEO of 169 Labs
All About Voice – Podcast zu Voice Assistants wie Alexa & Google Assistant
Rechtsanwalt Thorsten Jansen, der sich am Standort Köln mit den rechtlichen Anforderungen neuer Technologien und Geschäftsmodelle beschäftigt, führt mit mir in die Thematik der Umsetzung rechtlicher Anforderungen ein. Weitere Podcast-Episoden sollen folgen und sich dediziert mit einzelnen Themengebieten wie Werbung und Wettbewerbsrecht, Datenschutzrecht, sowie Urheberrecht und gewerbliche Schutzrechte auseinandersetzen.
Tim Kahle and Dominik Meissner are co-founders of 169 Labs, a leading voice app development agency in Germany. They discuss Amazon Alexa skill and Google Action adoption by brands and media in Europe, the challenges of language localization, how consumers view voice assistant technology, and similarities between voice today and the mobile app stores a decade ago. The duo founded 169 Labs shortly after winning an Alexa skill hackathon in 2017 and Tim was recently named an Alexa champion.
Audio, Voice, Smart Speaker, Podcasts sind in aller Munde. Der Markt boomt ohne Ende. Ich habe mit Tim Kahle, dem CEO @ 169 Labs GmbH über Smart Speaker und Audio allgemein gesporchen. Tim und seine Company realisieren Voice User Interfaces und Ihre Anwendungen für Sprachassistenten wie Amazon Alexa oder Google Assistant. Warum Voice eine neue Plattform ist und warum man deshalb in Plattformen denken muss erfahrt ihr in der neuen Folge der Freitagsspitzen. Mehr Infos zur 169 Labs GmbH gibt es hier https://www.169labs.com/ Produktionsdatum: Köln, 02.11.2018
All About Voice – Podcast zu Voice Assistants wie Alexa & Google Assistant
We celebrate the 6 month anniversary of VUX World by reviewing the modev Voice Summit event that took place last week in Newark. We anchor on the Voice Summit to take stock of 2018 and look forward to what brands, designers and developers should be focusing on over the next 6 months.To guide us through #VOICE18, Dustin and I are joined by Tim Kahle and Dominik Meißner, founders of 169 Labs.Win 2 free tickets to the All About Voice conference in Munich on 12th October169 Labs are running a voice first conference of their own on 12th October in Munich: All About Voice.For a chance to win 2 free tickets to the event, just send a tweet using #AllAboutVoice and answer the question: why is 2018 all about voice?169 Labs will pick a random winner who'll receive 2 free tickets to the conference.Use the code VUXWORLD to save 10%.Buy ticketsLinksCheck out the Voice Summit websiteVisit the All About Voice websiteVisit the 169 Labs websiteSee the 169 Labs and Amazon Twitch broadcastSee Tim Kahle's slides from his talkRead Dustin Coates' write up on day 1 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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.