Voicefirst Weekly Flashbriefing

Mari talks from the Alexa Conference just ahead of presenting at the panel of Podcasting in the age of Alexa at The Alexa Conference, See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Survata surveyed 2000 US smart speakers owners and here is the data See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

I was at SDC yesterday and saw more of Bixby, here are my takes. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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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 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Alexa everywhere keeps giving on See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Voice tech presence in the enterprise and predictions realizing after 2 years See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Google announces interactive stories in partnership with Disney See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Google and Expedia new partnership See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Google Translate is available on all Assistant-optimized headphones and Android phones. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Every Thursday 9:50 PT we send the weekly issue of the ultimate newsletter in voice technology. We will soon add an audio version of it as well. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.