Does Apple hold the keys to ambient computing?
Radar sensing and voice match in home pod mini. Does Apple hold the ambient computing keys?
Apple HomePod Mini: what’s the deal?
What we like about the Apple Home Pod Mini… And it’s not what you think.
Amazon Echo Show: TV 3.0?
If the Amazon Echo is radio 2.0, then is the Echo Show, with Zoom and Netflix, TV 3.0?
Voice advertising effects on charity donations with Charlie Cadbury
What happens when you serve audio adverts to smart speaker listeners and ask them to make a charitable donation right there and then on their smart speaker, using their voice?
Alexa, the Amazon Services Trojan Horse?
Is the Amazon Echo and Alexa a trojan horse to allow Amazon to sell more products? Nope, but it might be to sell more services.
Amazon Alexa’s Paul Cutsinger tells us what’s new
At Alexa Live 2020, Amazon dropped 31 new features on us, the most features dropped at one time ever. Alexa’s Head of Developer Strategy, Paul Cutsinger, joins us to break them down.
Your audio strategy’s Holy Trinity with Ron Jaworski
Ron Jaworski, CEO Trinity Audio, joins us to share how to satisfy the user, the publisher and the advertiser with your audio strategy.
Amazon’s Alexa strategy latest: trying to conquer a long-standing weakness
With the latest developments in Alexa functionality announced at Alexa Live 2020, Amazon has shown a glimpse into its advancing Alexa strategy, and how it’s trying to make up for a long-standing weakness. Here’s the what, why and how.
Hacking speech systems
Why speech recognition systems struggle with accents, how you can hack your training data, and the importance of solving ASR at a platform level.
Why Alexa doesn’t understand your accent
In a study by Uswitch, it was found that Irish, Welsh and Scottish accents are the hardest for voice assistants like Alexa to understand. Here’s why Alexa doesn’t understand your accent.