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Why Alexa doesn’t understand your accent 1576 1182 Kane Simms

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.

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voice will catch on sooner than you think
Voice will catch-on sooner than you think 1800 1200 Kane Simms

Voice will catch-on sooner than you think

People often say that it’s going to be quite a while before voice catches on. But user behaviour is changing irrevocably as we speak.

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give alexa a break
Give your smart speaker a break, it’s working pretty hard 1800 1200 Kane Simms

Give your smart speaker a break, it’s working pretty hard

The microphone technology in your smart speaker, it’s pretty impressive. When you talk, sound leaves your mouth, but it doesn’t travel in a straight line.…

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conversational ear worms
Conversational ear worms 1800 1200 Kane Simms

Conversational ear worms

What is the conversational equivalent of an ear worm? An ear worm is a song that you just cannot get out of your head. It…

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innovative today expected tomorrow
What’s innovative today, is expected tomorrow 1800 1200 Kane Simms

What’s innovative today, is expected tomorrow

Sooner or later, you will realise that a conversational AI strategy is actually just an extension of your business strategy.

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conversation design is changing
Think conversation design is complex? You aint seen nothing yet 1800 1200 Kane Simms

Think conversation design is complex? You aint seen nothing yet

If you think conversation design is complex, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

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interactive voice adverts
Interactive voice advert gets 21% engagement 1800 1200 Kane Simms

Interactive voice advert gets 21% engagement

Imagine that 21% of everyone who saw your ad campaign engaged with it. Well, that’s the reality of interactive voice advertising.

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you dont need a chatbot or alexa skill
You don’t need an Alexa skill or a chat bot, you need… 1800 1200 Kane Simms

You don’t need an Alexa skill or a chat bot, you need…

As soon as you start properly examining the potential of conversational AI and voice technology for your business, you find that potential absolutely everywhere.

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New Alexa features for developers from Alexa Live 2020 895 671 Dustin Coates

New Alexa features for developers from Alexa Live 2020

Now we have a couple weeks that have passed since Alexa Live: those few hours where Amazon just blew our minds and announced 31 new…

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Top 7 new Alexa features for marketers
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Top 7 new Alexa updates for marketers

Amazon recently announced 31 new features for Amazon Alexa. Here are the top seven for marketers.

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a sign that you need a conversational AI strategy
A tell tale sign that you need a conversational AI strategy (don’t make the same mistakes as you did with social) 1800 1200 Kane Simms

A tell tale sign that you need a conversational AI strategy (don’t make the same mistakes as you did with social)

Here’s a tell tale sign that it’s time to put together a proper conversational AI strategy for your company. Click on the image to download…

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App Clips website hero image
App Clips: The biggest innovation to hit the App Store since the App Store 900 600 Kane Simms

App Clips: The biggest innovation to hit the App Store since the App Store

At WWDC2020, Apple announced App Clips. It’s the first signs of an app revolution and the first real innovation we’ve seen on the app-front since…

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All the new Siri updates from Apple WWDC 20 1800 1200 Kane Simms

All the new Siri updates from Apple WWDC 20

Here’s a run through of all the new updates to Siri announced at WWDC 2020.

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Kane Simms discussing multi modal design for google assistant
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The future is multi modal

Transcript A good digital assistant will take context into consideration when providing a user experience. Now that context can be related to the device that…

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Kane Simms of VUX World showing two strategies to get your alexa skills discovered
Two strategies to get your Alexa skill discovered 1280 720 Kane Simms

Two strategies to get your Alexa skill discovered

Alexa skill discoverability is a challenge that’s existed since the birth of the Echo as a skill developer or brand, how do you get people…

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Kane Simms of VUX World on the Voiceflow AMA
Why Alexa skill discoverability is hard | VUX World 555 310 Kane Simms

Why Alexa skill discoverability is hard | VUX World

Why are Alexa skills and voice apps so hard to get discovered? Kane reveals his thoughts on the Voiceflow AMA (Ask Me Anything).

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Descript and Lyrebird - the best use of voice technology yet
The most innovative use of voice technology so far? 2560 1440 Kane Simms

The most innovative use of voice technology so far?

What Descript did with Lyrebird AI might be the most innovative use of voice technology I’ve ever seen. Descript is a transcription service. A very…

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Apple and Google coronavirus partnership
Apple and Google help fight coronavirus 557 314 Kane Simms

Apple and Google help fight coronavirus

Looking at the Apple and Google partnership that could enable tracking of coronavirus cases and shares why you should think about voice early in projects.

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What exactly is ‘voice’? A definition 846 477 Kane Simms

What exactly is ‘voice’? A definition

‘Voice’ is forecast to be the next technology platform for customer engagement and the next interface to the web and computing, but what actually is…

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Kane Simms on the 414 podcast discussing whether 2020 will be the year of voice
Is 2020 the year of voice? 658 385 Kane Simms

Is 2020 the year of voice?

Everyone’s asking whether 2020 will be the year of voice. Here’s our take on it.

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Why Apple acquired Voysis and what it means for Siri - VUX World whiteboard sessions
Why Apple acquired Voysis and what it means for Siri 1280 720 Kane Simms

Why Apple acquired Voysis and what it means for Siri

Why has Apple acquired Voysis and what does that mean for Siri? To answer that, we need to take a long walk over to the…

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Covid-19 will change how we use digital screens outside of the home
Covid-19 will change how we use digital screens outside of the home 559 310 Kane Simms

Covid-19 will change how we use digital screens outside of the home

Will the current cover situation change our behaviour towards touching screens outside of the home? And can voice technologies play a role in facilitating changing…

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Apple acquire Voysis - Kane Simms VUX World vlog
Voysis acquired by Apple 555 313 Kane Simms

Voysis acquired by Apple

Apple acquired voice-specialist conversational AI company, Voysis, recently and how we discovered it was, well timed and kinda funny.

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conversation design with Jon Bloom of Google
Should you create a brand persona? Really? 1800 1200 Kane Simms

Should you create a brand persona? Really?

For those of you who’ve listened to the podcast, you’ll know that I’m a complete advocate for sonic branding and sound design. Episodes with Joel…

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