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The Rundown: THE API, Beeb and the most recognisable audio logos
The Rundown: THE API, Beeb and the most recognisable audio logos 1800 1200 Kane Simms

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



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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

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The Rundown: Voice authenticated purchasing and bye bye Google Home?
The Rundown: Voice authenticated purchasing and bye bye Google Home? 1800 1200 Kane Simms

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

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The Rundown: The Webby Awards bring synthetic tears
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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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The Rundown: Talking volcanos finding gaps you can Read Along to
The Rundown: Talking volcanos finding gaps you can Read Along to 1800 1200 Kane Simms

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

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The Rundown: Talking elevators and clever Blenders
The Rundown: Talking elevators and clever Blenders 1800 1200 Kane Simms
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The Rundown: coronavirus and voice, Spotify and Jovo
The Rundown: coronavirus and voice, Spotify and Jovo 1800 1200 Kane Simms

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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Introducing the latest Alexa Champion: Dustin Coates
Introducing the latest Alexa Champion: Dustin Coates 1800 1200 Kane Simms

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.

Drumroll please…

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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The Rundown: best and worst of voice first in 2019 and what to look forward to in 2020
The Rundown: best and worst of voice first in 2019 and what to look forward to in 2020 1800 1200 Kane Simms

The first episode of the new year is both a reflection on how far we’ve come in the last 12 months, and what to look forward to in the year to come.

This is a special episode as it’s the first of a new decade. And in this episode of the rundown, we’re getting deep. read more

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Siri updates from WWDC 2019
Siri updates from WWDC 2019 1800 1200 Kane Simms

Some updates and thoughts on Apple’s Siri announcements from WWDC on 3rd June 2019.

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The Rundown 003: Increased engagement, Alexa room bookings, skill-to-skill connections, Google Assistant payments and more
The Rundown 003: Increased engagement, Alexa room bookings, skill-to-skill connections, Google Assistant payments and more 1800 1200 Kane Simms

Translating the recent happenings in voice news into insights and recommendations for designers, developers and brands. read more

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