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 rundown this week’s top stories in voice and conversational AI.
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.
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.
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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Sparks is a new podcast player app that lets you learn and retain knowledge while you listen.
The Sparks team are looking for people just like you: podcast listeners who’re also innovative early adopters of new tech, to try the beta app and provide feedback.
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Google reject corona virus action
Spotify might be releasing a voice assistant
Jovo v3, build voice assistants and deploy them everywhere
Live broadcasting on Alexa with the Food Network
Every once in a while, the Alexa team at Amazon give a select few people a badge of honour.🥇
It’s called the Alexa Champions programme and it commends individuals within the Amazon Alexa community who’ve done great work in helping push the voice first agenda forwards.
In the most recent batch of 2020 Champions is our very own Dustin Coates!🤴
Dustin has been an active member of the voice community for over 4 years.
His site Talking To Computers is a voice developers dream.
His book Voice Applications for Alexa and Google Assistant is the only one of its kind and helps turn voice dev novices into pros.
His work with Algolia has brought voice search to a whole host of players.
And (obviously), it goes without saying that VUX World would be nothing without him. From hosting the podcast to building epic voice experiences for our clients.
He’s already a Google Developer Expert and now, rightfully, he’s an Amazon Alexa Champion.
Now he just needs the Samsung Bixby Premier Developer badge and he’ll join Nick Schwab as the only other developer to have the whole set. 😃
Congratulations Dustin!!
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