When can we advertise on Alexa?
“When will we see advertising on Alexa?” If you’re thinking this, you’re missing the point.
Don’t sleep on Bixby
Samsung has a twenty percent market share in smartphones. Obviously, we know that lots of people have Samsung smartphones.
It’s about NLP, not voice
Last week, I was featured in a SoundHound article and was asked about my predictions for voice in 2020. The more you think about voice, if you look at things from a higher level, and ask ‘what’s driving this?’ You’ll realise that the main technology behind it all is natural language processing. Yes, Automatic […]
VUX design 2.0
Voice assistants should change how they interact with users based on how you interact with them and the context you’re in. For example: 🎧 If I’m walking with my headphones on, and I ask Siri “What was the Boro score at the weekend?” Then I just want the score. Nothing more. Did they win or […]
Top use cases for smart speakers revealed
We’ve seen a lot of these studies delving into what people are actually using their voice assistants for. They’re useful to check whether anything has changed. Whether there are any emerging use cases rising. The first one of 2020 comes from Sunny Radio in the US. Here’s the top 5 use cases they found […]
Google Assistant: 500m active users, popular Alexa skill: 300,000 daily users
At Project Voice in Chattanooga, TN, we saw some light shed on just how many people are using the Google Assistant, and some updated numbers on the kind of traffic one of the most popular Alexa skills handles. Cathy Pearl, Head of Conversation Design Outreach, Google, towards the end of her presentation shared some numbers […]
Introducing the latest Alexa Champion: Dustin Coates
Every once in a while, the Alexa team at Amazon give a select few people a badge of honour.🥇 It’s called the Alexa Champions programme and it commends individuals within the Amazon Alexa community who’ve done great work in helping push the voice first agenda forwards. Drumroll please… In the most recent batch of […]
Google Assistant will replace Google Search in its entirety within 5 years
Here’s a prediction for you: Google Assistant will replace google search entirely within 5 years. Sooner, even. Think about it. What is Google’s ultimate aim? To find THE right result for the user. That’s why it’s taken on the burden itself of finding hotel rooms, flights, deals and just about anything else it can […]
The dormant potential of Apple Watch
I realised the dormant potential of the Apple Watch yesterday. It’s full of apps and functionality, but I never use it. I have the Dominos app, Uber, Trello, Evernote, you name it. It’s all on there. Yet, whenever I need any of those things, I pull out my phone. Why is that? What’s missing? You […]
Matchbox.io with Sarah Andrew Wilson
Sarah Andrew Wilson, Chief Content Officer at Matchbox.io, shares the secret sauce for creating the kind of Alexa skills you can build a business on.