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The Alexa Conference

A new set of family experiences was announced by Google in their Canadian blog yesterday. Which are they, why it matters at the heart of this episode.

Your Google Assistant can connect families to the North Pole

Amazon announced yesterday their advancements on Varying Speaking Styles with Neural Text-to-Speech. In this episode I talk about synthesized speech before this, why it matters, and what the (not that far) future might look like. This is one of the topics on voice technology I'm most passionated about.

Advancements in speaking styles in TTS

In this episode, I talk about the automated virtual assistant and chatbot that the Montgomery County Clerk of Courts Office developed to answer many of the most frequently asked questions received by the Montgomery County Clerk of Courts Office by email and phone. Details on the announcement and of Microsoft cognitive services.

A court with a voice: Montgomery County conversational services

In this episode we have a guest for the first time in the show. Enjoy my conversation with Brendan Roberts about the challenges of selling an AI product to small business and how Aider can help boost your productivity.

It’s time small businesses had big business capability.

North, a Canadian company introduced their brick and mortar store of smart glasses with Alexa built-in. This is the episode you need to know everything about the announcement.

Alexa voice activated smart glasses available

Survata surveyed 2000 US smart speakers owners and here is the data

How receptive are smart speaker owners to advertising?

I was at SDC yesterday and saw more of Bixby, here are my takes.

More on Bixby and SDC18

Samsung announce yesterday at the Developer Conference in San Francisco that the Bixby platform was open to developers. The Bixby developer Studio was until so far in private beta. We were part of the beta program and created two capsules. Here are the details of the announcement and our capsules!

Samsung opens Bixby to third party developers

The Guardian Voice Lab

Mobile Web Index released a report on voice search trends that covers more than voice search. In this episode I talk about the main take aways and future implications from the report. Also, I just make an appearance introducing a guest presenting the content. Enjoy

Global Web Index Voice Search Trends Report Summary

Alexa in office equipment

For developers and anyone involved in the mobile revolution around 2010, anything that promises to work in different devices seamless is like a dream. That’s what Alexa Presentation Language is seducing us with: build interactive, multimodal Alexa skills and customize them for different Alexa-enabled devices.

The Alexa Presentation Language

Siri made an appearance, briefly, in this episode talking about Siri as an enterprise product, is it, is it not what other questions this might lead us to?

Is Siri an enterprise product

How does the future of forms - including lead forms, government services forms- will look like, how collecting data will change when conversational interfaces are more mainstream among users? This is a question that has been in my head for a few months now. But today's episode is about the present and not the future.

Conversational forms or adios web forms

Voice apps, voice strategy, voice commerce, sonic branding, conversational UIs

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