Voicefirst Weekly Flashbriefing

The Information released today an article echoed by TechCrunch reporting numbers revealing that very few owners of Alexa-powered devices use them for shopping. Small stats on this and the question: are we gonna continue seeing these types of articles based on the Is the technology there yet for voice? I think we will. Join the debate on Twitter and share your opinion with the voice-first community, See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lately I have been hearing a lot of voice only or voice and, this is my take on why voice first is about the interface and not the only medium. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Google has an announcement in their Google Actions on Google about repurposing android mobile apps into actions. We reflect on it. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

An interesting and simple use case of an Alexa skill See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Snapchat launched two days ago new lenses that respond to voice commands. Lenses are animations on top of your photos and videos in the snapchat mobile app. While the company has offered lenses that involve audio before, this is the first time it has created lenses that actually recognize words. What does this means and why is a trend to follow. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The duality between Voice and Visual interfaces basically comes down to age old question of visual communication versus audio communication. “Language need not have started in a spoken modality; sign language may have been the original language. This shift is leading companies to ask the question of whether they should continue to invest in the visual interface or should budgets shift to voice? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

New ways to interact with users from skills See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

@hculbertson tweeted during the weekend that the concept of jobs to be done about shortcuts got her thinking about cares to be given in voice, and that got me thinking. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hello there, I got asked some deal on voice summit how we put our flash briefing on Google Assistant. It’s not as straightforward as in Alexa, and it require some coding, but it can be done! So today’s episode is gonna be a little meta and we are gonna talk about the tools and processes we follow to produce VoiceFirst Weekly content.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Voice summit 2018 held this week in Newark, NJ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

How is Alexa going to help you to pair wines See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we learned that Rockpointe is launching a medical education program on Amazon's Alexa for doctors that they say is the first for the voice technology.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

My uncle has been fighting a disease that he knows is gonna left him blind, soon. One of my best friend is blind. Of all our technological advantages to date, none of them have been particularly helpful for blind or physically impaired. Navigating internet today for my uncle or my friend is a daunting task. Booking flights, a relatively easy task for you or me, is a long process of calls with operators for them. Now imagine how voice applications can change that. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We see a lot of what's the next big thing in voice, is it there yet See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Amazon and Microsoft called the assistants apps skills. And there’s a reason for it, the assistant is supposed to learn from the skills, be enhanced by them. Can smart speakers enhance learning and education? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Alexa, Google Assistant, Bixby, Cortana are not the only smart speakers, they all have something in common: created and baked by a big company. But they are not the only assistants in the market. In this episode we dive into some of the other players. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Just wishing you the best week! Today we are traveling to Voice Summit, so there is no episode but I needed to log in and wish you the best week ahead. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Some guidelines for chatbots maintenance. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

According to a recent study conducted by audio and AI company Voysis, more than half of voice commerce is conducted on mobile phones with assistant programs like Siri or emerging platforms that are enabling audio conversions.However, the rise of mobile voice sales is also a result of retailers investing more heavily in voice-activated mobile apps and technology, according to Ryan Macinnis, director of marketing at Voysis. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What are companies doing today to generate money from voice platforms and what else can be done. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.