The Rundown

Kane Simms and Dustin Coates rundown this week’s top stories in voice and conversational AI.

Top stories this week:

Open AI API

The Beeb, BBC’s voice assistant in public Beta

Flipkart launches voice assistant for web

Microsoft files patent for smart speaker

Veritonic Audio Logo Index 2020

Kane Simms and Dustin Coates are joined by Claire Mitchell to Rundown the week’s conversational AI news.

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Kane Simms and Dustin Coates are joined by Claire Mitchell to Rundown the week’s conversational AI news.

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Kane Simms, Dustin Coates and Claire Mitchell Rundown this week’s top stories in voice technology including listening to volcanos with speech technology and how Google’s helping kids learn to read.

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This week’s top stories:

Google’s Read Along 

Vernacular.ai raises $5.1 million led by Exfinity Ventures, Kalaari Capital

HR AI system, Paradox AI gets 40m funding for replacing the ‘boring’ jobs

ConverseNow has closed a $3.25 million seed funding round led by Bala Investments

Omilia, a conversational artificial intelligence platform developer, has raised $20 million in a funding round led by Grafton Capital

Getting the tone right – automated copy generation has to be retrained in a time of crisis

Stores may use voice assistants to transform shopping, retail consultant says

In a world fearful of touch, voice assistants like Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri are making our lives easier

Startup adjusts medical voice assistant for a Zoom world

France launches AI voice assistant to help coronavirus patients

Katy Perry announces new album on Alexa

Spirent approved to test AVS products

How speech recognition techniques are helping to predict volcanoes’ behaviour

The Information by James Gleik

MIDI Sprout

Learn guitar on Google Assistant

Kane and Dustin are joined by guest co-host Claire Mitchell to run down the week’s top voice and conversational AI stories.

Stories covered:

Talking elevators and the Scottish elevator sketch

Contact centre voice biometrics

Google Assistant’s voice match

Facebook Chatbot, Blender, can talk about anything. See some sample dialogues and try it out.

Juniper research

NPR Smart Audio Report

Pandora’s listening habit changes

AI conference on Aminal Farm

Claire Mitchell on VUX World

Corona virus hits voice as Google removes coronavirus actions, Spotify looks like it’s releasing a voice assistant and Jovo lets you build voice assistants everywhere.

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Stories discussed in this episode

Google reject corona virus action

Spotify might be releasing a voice assistant

Jovo v3, build voice assistants and deploy them everywhere

Jovo Linkedin vlog 

Google Read It

Google Read It Linkedin vlog

Alexa, the OS

Live broadcasting on Alexa with the Food Network

The end of Alexa Skills?

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