All about Voiceitt with Sara Smolley
Alexa Accelerator 2018 featured startup, Voiceitt, gives people with speech impairments their voice back. Today, we’re joined by co-founder and VP Strategy, Sara Smolley, to hear all about it. The There are millions of people across the globe who have non-standard speech. People who’ve had a stroke or who have multiple sclerosis or cerebral pausey, […]
Make voice core to what you do, not an add-on
Online, you’ve been able to get away with doing the bare minimum. For years hotels just had a website with pictures, you had to call to book a room. Same for restaurants. Websites used to just show you the place and the menu. To book a table, you needed to call. In some restaurants, […]
Is Facebook getting a Voice Assistant?
I first come across this on VoiceBot. Jane Manchun Wong has found some hidden code inside Facebook Messenger that would suggest that Facebook is about to launch a voice assistant called Aloha. Facebook Messenger Voice Assistant UI pic.twitter.com/DOMe4Nsg7v — Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) August 21, 2018 She also found hints of audio messaging within […]
Cognilytica Voice Assistant Benchmark 1.0
Today, we’re discussing the Cognilytica Voice Assistant Benchmark 1.0 and it’s findings on the usefulness and capability of smart speakers. The folks at Cognilytica conducted a study where they asked Google Assistant, Alexa, Siri and Cortana 100 different questions in 10 categories in an effort to understand the AI capability of the top voice […]
Generation V
<span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span> I don’t think we appreciate the significance of kids born today. I’m calling them Generation V. The voice natives. They’ll know nothing other than being able to talk to tech. Imagine that. My son won’t know anything else. It’ll be normal for him. (I […]
Voice first design strategy with Ben Sauer
Ben Sauer is a Design Strategist who’s worked with some of the world’s well known brands: Virgin, Tesco, Pearsons, British Gas, Penguin Random House, BBC. Ben worked with Clearleft as a Design Strategist for many years and more recently turned his attention to how voice will change design. Over the last couple of years, Ben […]
Adoption, growth, in-skill purchases and developer rewards with Nick Schwab
The first in a new series called ‘Unscripted’ where we have off-the-cuff, unscripted conversations with voice first leaders and practitioners to get acquainted, hear their story and find out how they do what they do. In this first episode, we speak to Alexa Skill developing veteran, Nick Schwab, founder of Invoked Apps, about: User […]
All about conversational commerce with Charlie Cadbury
In this episode, we take a deep dive into conversational commerce: what it is, what’s possible and how you can turn conversing strangers into paying customers. Our guest Charles Cadbury is the co-founder of Say It Now, a company that helps brands respond the the growing consumer need for immediacy. Charlie’s history is impressive. He’s […]
#VOICE18 with Tim Kahle and Dominik Meißner of 169 Labs
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 […]
The 3 pillars of voice first success with RAIN’s Will Hall and Jason Herndon
This week, we’re speaking to RAIN agency’s Will Hall and Jason Herndon about how their three pillars of: strategy, creativity and technology, are leading the world’s biggest brands to voice first success. In this episode: voice strategy, creative prowess and technological genius In this episode, RAIN’s Executive Creative Director, Will Hall, and VP, Engineering, […]