The Rundown: Talking volcanos finding gaps you can Read Along to

Dustin Coates, Claire Mitchell and Kane Simms on the Rundown, VUX World

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 […]

The Rundown: Talking elevators and clever Blenders

Dustin Coates, Claire Mitchell and Kane Simms on the Rundown, VUX World

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 […]

Two strategies to get your Alexa skill discovered

Kane Simms of VUX World showing two strategies to get your alexa skills discovered

Alexa skill discoverability is a challenge that’s existed since the birth of the Echo as a skill developer or brand, how do you get people to use your Alexa skill? In this video, we dive into two strategies that, when used together, will help you find users.

The most innovative use of voice technology so far?

Descript and Lyrebird - the best use of voice technology yet

What Descript did with Lyrebird AI might be the most innovative use of voice technology I’ve ever seen. Descript is a transcription service. A very good transcription service, but a transcription service nonetheless. You provide it with a spoken word audio sample: a podcast recording, a video, a meeting, and it’ll transcribe it for you […]

Apple and Google help fight coronavirus

Apple and Google coronavirus partnership

Looking at the Apple and Google partnership that could enable tracking of coronavirus cases and shares why you should think about voice early in projects.