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A difference between conversational AI and your website 1532 850 Kane Simms

A difference between conversational AI and your website

One of the differences between conversational AI and, say, your website or most other channels that don’t rely on natural language is that…

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You might not have a choice about voice 916 687 Kane Simms

You might not have a choice about voice

It’s ironic, but you might not have a choice about voice.

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When will voice AI disrupt your industry? 912 684 Kane Simms

When will voice AI disrupt your industry?

Find out how voice AI is disrupting industries with Mike Zagorsek of SoundHound. Register here.

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Does Apple hold the keys to ambient computing? 879 659 Kane Simms

Does Apple hold the keys to ambient computing?

Radar sensing and voice match in home pod mini. Does Apple hold the ambient computing keys?

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Apple HomePod Mini - how it's positioned
Apple HomePod Mini: what’s the deal? 750 516 Kane Simms

Apple HomePod Mini: what’s the deal?

What we like about the Apple Home Pod Mini… And it’s not what you think.

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Amazon Echo Show: TV 3.0? 2191 1242 Kane Simms

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?

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Are you over-polishing your chatbot? 904 678 Kane Simms

Are you over-polishing your chatbot?

When designing a chat bot or voice bot, be careful not to over-polish your dialogue. Keep it natural and free flowing. Here’s how.

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Alexa, the Amazon Services Trojan Horse? 1656 1242 Kane Simms

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.

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Your bot is a toddler not an expert
Your bot’s not an expert, it’s a toddler, and that’s OK 1800 1200 Kane Simms

Your bot’s not an expert, it’s a toddler, and that’s OK

Standford University found that chatbots and voicebots that are positioned as toddlers fair better than those positioned as experts.

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The difference between chatbot and voice search refinements
The difference between chatbot and voice search refinements 876 657 Kane Simms

The difference between chatbot and voice search refinements

What’s the difference between how people use chatbots and search bars vs voice user interfaces and what does that mean for how you design interactions…

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Amazon's latest Alexa strategy updates and why it matters
Amazon’s Alexa strategy latest: trying to conquer a long-standing weakness 1800 1200 Kane Simms

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…

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Hacking speech systems 863 647 Kane Simms

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.

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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
Top 7 new Alexa updates for marketers 1800 1200 Kane Simms

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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