The Rundown: Talking volcanos finding gaps you can Read Along to
Kane Simms, Dustin Coates and Claire Mitchell Rundown this week’s top stories in voice technology including listening to volcanos with speech technology and how Google’s helping kids learn to read. Watch on LinkedIn Live This week’s top stories: Google’s Read Along Vernacular.ai raises $5.1 million led by Exfinity Ventures, Kalaari Capital HR AI system, Paradox […]
Voice at Sony Music with Dennis Kooker and Achim Matthes
Peak behind the curtain at Sony Music’s voice strategy and hear how it’s thinking about the future of music consumption.
The Rundown: Talking elevators and clever Blenders
Kane and Dustin are joined by guest co-host Claire Mitchell to run down the week’s top voice and conversational AI stories. Stories covered: Talking elevators and the Scottish elevator sketch Contact centre voice biometrics Google Assistant’s voice match Facebook Chatbot, Blender, can talk about anything. See some sample dialogues and try it out. Juniper research […]
Voice technology for kids with Dr. Patricia Scanlon
Dustin and Kane are joined by Dr. Patricia Scanlon, CEO SoapBox Labs, to discuss why dedicated speech technology for kids is so important and the huge opportunity to do good things with it.
Ethical conversation design with Microsoft’s Deborah Harrison
What is ethical conversation design? Why is it important? And what can we do to design conversations more responsibly? Join Deborah Harrison, Cortana’s first writer, to find out.
Voice search: how to measure your ‘share of voice’ with Andy Headington
Andy Headington, CEO, Adido joins us to share how you can measure your voice search performance on Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa.
What is automatic speech recognition and how does it work? With Catherine Breslin
Dive deep into one of the core technologies that underpins the voice assistants you know and love, with one of the world’s leading speech recognition experts, Catherine Breslin. Presented by Sparks Sparks is a new podcast player app that lets you learn and retain knowledge while you listen. The Sparks team are looking for people […]
Alexa for retailers and the voice shopping landscape with Shilp Agarwal
Retailers with Alexa skills can see a 12-15% increase in cart size, improve customer experience and gather vital competitive data as voice shopping explodes. Shilp Agarwal, CEO of Blutag, joins us to share more about the voice shopping landscape.
The Rundown: coronavirus and voice, Spotify and Jovo
Corona virus hits voice as Google removes coronavirus actions, Spotify looks like it’s releasing a voice assistant and Jovo lets you build voice assistants everywhere. Listen on: Apple podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | CastBox | Spreaker | TuneIn | Breaker | Stitcher | PlayerFM | iHeartRadio Presented by Sparks Sparks is a […]
Live video broadcasting on Alexa with Tim McElreath
The Food Network aims to the be Peloton of cooking with live video broadcasting on Alexa. Director of Technology and Emerging Platforms at Discovery Inc., Tim McElreath, joins us to share how.