How your voice assistant talks is more important than what it says with Ben McCulloch
Ben McCulloch shares his take on why intonation and emotion is imperative in creating high quality and trust-building voice experiences. Listen on: Apple podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | CastBox | Spreaker | TuneIn | Breaker | Stitcher | PlayerFM | iHeartRadio Presented by Readspeaker Readspeaker is a pioneering voice technology company that […]
Alternative voice assistants to Alexa and Google Assistant
I’m in Amsterdam today with JP and Jen who are over there looking rather nonchalant not joining me on the escalator, but in Amsterdam in Holland Google, Sorry, Alexa doesn’t exist. The echo doesn’t exist. It’s Google Assistant predominantly and I got me thinking about what would you do if those big commercial Voice […]
Four Alexa Champions walk down memory lane with Nick Schwab, Eric Olsen, Tim Kahle and Steve Arkonovich
We catch up with 4 Amazon Alexa Champions to discuss the then, now and future of the Alexa skills ecosystem and the voice first community.
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.
Amazon Alexa Super Bowl ad 2020
Transcript: Amazon have released a preview of its Super Bowl advert and it was aired on The Ellen Degeneres Show. DeGeneres? I think it’s DeGeneres. Is that how you pronounce it? Anyway, Amy Stapleton, recent Alexa Champion, (congratulations Amy!) posted something on LinkedIn: The first point is that Alexa is portrayed as a servant. A […]
When can we advertise on Alexa?
“When will we see advertising on Alexa?” If you’re thinking this, you’re missing the point.
Don’t sleep on Bixby
Samsung has a twenty percent market share in smartphones. Obviously, we know that lots of people have Samsung smartphones.
Top use cases for smart speakers revealed
We’ve seen a lot of these studies delving into what people are actually using their voice assistants for. They’re useful to check whether anything has changed. Whether there are any emerging use cases rising. The first one of 2020 comes from Sunny Radio in the US. Here’s the top 5 use cases they found […]
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 […]
Introducing the latest Alexa Champion: Dustin Coates
Every once in a while, the Alexa team at Amazon give a select few people a badge of honour.🥇 It’s called the Alexa Champions programme and it commends individuals within the Amazon Alexa community who’ve done great work in helping push the voice first agenda forwards. Drumroll please… In the most recent batch of […]