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Kane Simms and Dustin Coates rundown this week’s top stories in voice and conversational AI.
Top stories this week:
The Beeb, BBC’s voice assistant in public Beta
Flipkart launches voice assistant for web
Kane Simms and Dustin Coates are joined by Claire Mitchell to Rundown the week’s conversational AI news.
Kane Simms and Dustin Coates are joined by Claire Mitchell to Rundown the week’s conversational AI news.
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.
This week’s top stories:
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
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
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
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.
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
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