Why the UK Gov latest smart speaker recommendations are dangerous
The UK Government-commissioned Digital Radio and Audio Review has proposed new regulation that would force smart speaker manufacturers and voice assistant providers to guarantee free access to radio stations.
Google’s Assistant strategy and what it means for your brand
Google’s recent integration of Google Assistant with Technicolor set-top-boxes further shows that Google’s strategy for Assistant is more than timers, alarms and web searches. You might think of Google assistant as the thing that you use to search the web on your phone or the speaker you use to play music at home. But with […]
Building a business on Alexa and Google Assistant with Tom Hewitson
Founder and CEO, Labworks.io, Tom Hewitson joins us to share his advice on how to build a business on Alexa and Google Assistant.
Top 10 voice marketing mistakes and how to avoid them
If you’re considering using voice assistants like Alexa and Google Assistant for marketing, here’s a few things to watch out for.
Does voice first suck? And is it stuck? With Bret Kinsella, John Kelvie and Ahmed Bouzid
Join three of the voice AI industry’s leading minds to debate whether voice is living up to its promise and what should happen next.
The future is multi modal
Transcript A good digital assistant will take context into consideration when providing a user experience. Now that context can be related to the device that you’re using, could be related to the environment that you’re in, could be related to how much time and attention you have available at any given time. So for example, […]
Multi modal design with Google’s Daniel Padgett
Google’s Head of Conversation Design, Daniel Padgett, shares how his team approach multi modal design across all Google Assistant-enabled devices.
Conversation design and grounding strategies with Jon Bloom
Jon Bloom, Senior Conversation Designer at Google, joins us to share what a conversation designer does at Google, as well as some conversation design techniques used at Google, such as ‘grounding strategies’.
Voice search is real and Google is concerned
Voice search is happening. And Google is under threat. Not short term threat but long term threat. There’s a new search provider in town and it’s name is Alexa.
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 […]