Why Alexa doesn’t understand your accent

In a study by Uswitch, it was found that Irish, Welsh and Scottish accents are the hardest for voice assistants like Alexa to understand. Here’s why Alexa doesn’t understand your accent.
Voice will catch-on sooner than you think

People often say that it’s going to be quite a while before voice catches on. But user behaviour is changing irrevocably as we speak.
Give your smart speaker a break, it’s working pretty hard

The microphone technology in your smart speaker, it’s pretty impressive. When you talk, sound leaves your mouth, but it doesn’t travel in a straight line. It travels like a shotgun and it just blasts in all different directions and then bounces around the room and you get reflections. It’s called reverb, and those reflections are […]
Conversational ear worms

What is the conversational equivalent of an ear worm? An ear worm is a song that you just cannot get out of your head. It doesn’t matter how hard you try it just sticks in there. If any of you have got kids then you’ll know exactly what it’s like to wake up at five […]
What’s innovative today, is expected tomorrow

Sooner or later, you will realise that a conversational AI strategy is actually just an extension of your business strategy.
Think conversation design is complex? You aint seen nothing yet

If you think conversation design is complex, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
Interactive voice advert gets 21% engagement

Imagine that 21% of everyone who saw your ad campaign engaged with it. Well, that’s the reality of interactive voice advertising.
You don’t need an Alexa skill or a chat bot, you need…

As soon as you start properly examining the potential of conversational AI and voice technology for your business, you find that potential absolutely everywhere.
New Alexa features for developers from Alexa Live 2020

Now we have a couple weeks that have passed since Alexa Live: those few hours where Amazon just blew our minds and announced 31 new features. There are new features for designers, for businesses and, of course, for devs as well. Now let’s look at a few features that I find most important and most […]
Top 7 new Alexa updates for marketers

Amazon recently announced 31 new features for Amazon Alexa. Here are the top seven for marketers.