How we made Hidden Cities Berlin with Nicky Birch, Michelle Feuerlicht and Nigel James Brown
In this episode, we take a deep dive into the creation of the world’s first voice-first interactive documentary: Hidden Cities Berlin for Google Assistant.
All about voice content management and localisation with Milkana Brace and Jonathan Burstein
Today, we’re discussing why you should separate voice app content from your code and logic with Jargon founders, Milkana Brace (CEO) and Jonathan Burstein (CTO).
The Rundown 004: re:Invent recap
On this week’s Rundown, we’re catching up to run through AWS re:Invent, Amazon’s biggest event of the year, and discuss everything voice-related that occurred. We’ll also weave in some of the latest news happenings and analyse the implications and opportunities for the industry.
How to get your Google Assistant Action discovered with John Campbell
This week, we’re discussing the latest insights and research in voice SEO and showing you how you can get discovered on Google Assistant, with the MD of Rabbit and Pork, John Campbell.
The Rundown 002: Alexa’s new hardware and dev tools, Google Home Mini becomes top selling smart speaker and more
It’s been a busy few weeks with both of the top two voice assistant platforms announcing new devices and software improvements, but what does it all mean for brands, designers and developers? Google Home Mini becomes top selling smart speaker That’s right, the Google Home Mini smart speaker outsold all other smart speakers in Q2. […]
The Rundown 001: Alexa settings API, 5 Google Assistant tips and more
We’re starting a new feature on VUX World: The Rundown. Dustin Coates and I are getting together each week (or bi-weekly) to discuss the recent happenings in the voice space and how that’ll impact designers, developers and brands. Alexa settings API We’re starting off by discussing the Amazon Alexa feature that developers have been clambering […]
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 […]
Conversation design with PullString’s Oren Jacob
This week, we speak to conversation design master, Oren Jacob, about what it takes to create successful conversations with technology. There are so many complexities in human conversation. When creating an Alexa Skill or Google Assistant Action, most designers try to mimic human conversation. Google itself has taken steps in this direction with the fabricated […]
How to translate your Alexa Skill or Google Assistant Action with Maaike Dufour
Translating your Alexa Skill or Google Assistant Action is about more than translating the words in your script. It’s about translating the user experience. Maaike Dufour calls this ‘transcreating’ and she joins us this week to show us how it’s done. Why should you translate your Alexa Skill or Google Assistant Action? The world is […]
Helping brands bridge the gap with Witlingo’s Brielle Nickoloff and Luciana Morais
This week, we’re finding out how brands can get started and enter the voice first world of smart speakers and digital assistants.