This Week In Voice

This Week In Voice Season 7, Episode 3 Guests: Chris Ezekiel (CEO, Creative Virtual), Timo Kunz (Founder, Aflorithmic / API.Audio), Sean McIlrath (VP and GM, Americas, Artificial Solutions) Stories: 1) Siri, Alexa, and Google Home make children rude, anti-social (NY Post): https://nypost.com/2022/09/28/siri-alexa-and-google-home-make-children-rude-anti-social-study/ 2) Here are the new features Amazon is adding to Alexa (Engadget): https://www.engadget.com/here-are-the-new-features-amazon-is-adding-to-alexa-170858160.html 3) Conversational AI Is Asking For Ethical Oversight (European Business Review): https://www.europeanbusinessreview.com/conversational-ai-is-asking-for-ethical-oversight-how-can-humans-best-answer-the-call/ 4) Darth Vader to be voiced by AI (The Sun): https://www.the-sun.com/tech/6295117/darth-vader-new-voice-ai-james-earl-jones-retires/

This Week In Voice Season 7, Episode 2 Guests: Maddy Apple (CEO, Women In Voice), Alex Misiaszek (SVP, Truist), Celene Osiecka (Senior Director, Conversation Design, [24]7.ai) Stories for discussion: 1) Amazon brings "Tap to Alexa" accessibility feature to Fire tablets for the first time (TechCrunch) 2) "Alexa, Should My Company Invest In Voice Technology?" (Harvard Business Review) 3) New Buzz Lightyear Toy Includes Conversational AI and Voice Recognition (Voicebot.ai) 4) Getty Images Bans AI-generated Content Over Fears Of Legal Challenges (The Verge)

This Week In Voice (Season 6, Episode 11) Featuring guests Brad Hastedt (DataForce) and Andrei Papancea (NLX) Stories: 1) Spotify Rebrands Greenroom Social Audio as Spotify Live, Adds Livestream to Main App (Voicebot.ai) 2) Nest Hub Max may soon let you summon Google Assistant without saying a word (Android Central) 3) Enterprise Conversational AI Startup Observe.AI Raises $125M (Voicebot.ai) 4) You Can Now Tell Alexa to Plant a Tree for You (Make Use Of)

This Week In Voice (Season 6, Episode 10) Featuring guests Phil Hall (LXT.ai) and Lauren Cowles (Veritone) Stories for discussion: 1) Voice cloning technology may have been used in Pearland scam (KHOU-11, Houston TX) 2) Amazon's Alexa is becoming a member of the family (Fortune) 3) Restaurants leverage conversational AI to automate order taking (PYMNTS.com) 4) Your iPhone has ten Harry Potter 'spells' that really work with Siri (New York Post)

This Week In Voice (Season 6, Episode 9) is a very special episode - an interview with YouTube sensation / freestyle rapper Harry Mack. Sponsored by our friends at Deepgram (https://dpgr.am/projectvoice): the leader in automated transcription and speech-to-text for conversational AI, sales and support enablement, voice analytics, or any use case that requires super accurate, usable transcriptions. WARNING: EXPLICIT LANGUAGE THROUGHOUT THE INTERVIEW The interview touches on how Harry uses voice assistants in his personal life, and then proceeds to re-trace some moments from his career that Project Voice CEO Bradley Metrock discovered that led to him booking Harry to play Euphonious, Birmingham's music and tech festival taking place June 17-19. Metrock and Harry Mack "react" to some of these previous videos, which include: Harry Mack Freestyles Get A Standing Ovation | Omegle Bars 37 (REACTION) from YouTube reactor Scru Face Jean TRASH or PASS! Harry Mack (IT'S A PARTY ON OMEGLE - Omegle Bars 30 [REACTION

This Week In Voice (Season 6, Episode 8) Guests: Kumar Rangarajan (CEO, Slang Labs), Tobias Dengel (CEO, WillowTree) Stories for discussion: 1) The Rise and Stall of the US Smart Speaker Market (Voicebot.AI) 2) Vizio Will Integrate SoundHound Voice AI Across Smart TV Line (Voicebot.AI) 3) Telehealth Visits Now Available Through Amazon Alexa (The Verge) 4) Star Wars Fans React To Learning Luke Skywalker Was Voiced By A Computer (ScreenRant)

This Week In Voice (Season 6, Episode 7) Guests: John Campbell (Rabbit & Pork), Tom Livne (Verbit.ai), Jen Heape (Vixen Labs) Stories for discussion: 1a) Google, a big fan of safety, expands Assistant Guest Mode to 9 other languages (Android Police) 1b) Apple says a ‘small portion’ of iPhones recorded interactions with Siri even if you opted out (The Verge) 2) Report: 62% of orgs use voice technology to increase revenue (VentureBeat) 3) Amazon’s new Super Bowl ad features a creepy mind-reading Alexa (The Verge)

This Week In Voice (Season 6, Episode 6) Guests: Naresh Kuppuswamy (DataForce), Liz Persaud (Georgia Tech), Johan Stromberg (Wanderword) Stories for discussion: 1) Jaguar Land Rover adds Amazon Alexa voice control as standard (Autocar) 2) Apple was a smart-speaker laggard, but its strategy is working (Fast Company) 3) iHeartMedia Leads $3M Funding Round for Social Audio Startup Gimme Radio (Voicebot.AI) 4) Artificial Intelligence Can Now Craft Original Jokes—And That’s No Laughing Matter (TIME)

This Week In Voice (Season 6, Episode 5) Guests: Paul Welham (Cereproc), Audrey Arbeeny (Audiobrain), Sean Austin (Helios) Stories for discussion: 1) Voice assistant maker SoundHound to go public via $2 billion SPAC deal (Reuters) 2) "Alexa, play something on Netflix." (The Verge) 3) Voice AI company Skit looks to hire 1000 people across US, SE Asia, India (Economic Times) 4) ReadSpeaker Debuts Voice User Interface Platform For Nintendo Switch (Voicebot.AI)

This Week In Voice, Season 6 Episode 4, features guests Rana Gujral (CEO, Behavioral Signals), Jon Stine (Executive Director, Open Voice Network) and Thomas Lindgren (Executive Chairman, Wanderword). Stories include: 1) M&A Watch: LivePerson's Transformational Acquisitions (Dan Miller, Opus Research) 2) Healthcare's Use Of Voice Tech Seen As "Game Changer" For Diagnostics, Patient Experience (PYMNTS) 3) A Start-up Says Its Voice Recognition Tech Beats Google And Amazon At Reducing Racial Bias (CNBC) 4) Biggest Names In Voice Tech Coming To Okaloosa Island For Project Voice X (Northwest Florida Daily News) This Week In Voice, hosted by Bradley Metrock (CEO, Project Voice; General Partner, Project Voice Capital Partners) is part of the Project Voice Media Group.

This Week In Voice (Season 6, Episode 3) Featuring guests Kerry Brix (conversational AI consultant), Todd Mozer (CEO, Sensory), and Alistair van Moere (Chief Product Officer, MetaMetrics) Stories for discussion: 1) Microsoft and NVIDIA unveil enormous language model with 530 billion parameters (Voicebot.ai) 2) Wendy's to use Google's AI to stop burgers from burning (ScreenRant) 3) Bowers & Wilkins "Zeppelin" gets rebooted as a $799 smart speaker (Digital Trends) 4) Where Have All The Alexas Gone? (Bustle) Project Voice X takes place October 25-27 in Destin / Fort Walton Beach, Florida - presented by Amazon and Microsoft. Registration can be found here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/project-voice-x-tickets-150144334747 Project Voice X Worldwide takes place October 29 virtually and registration can be found here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/project-voice-x-worldwide-tickets-188784508547

This Week In Voice - Season 6, Episode 2 Featuring guests Ken Sutton (CEO, Yobe) and Brandon Kaplan (CEO, Skilled Creative) Featured stories for discussion: 1) Hey Siri, what happened? (The Verge) 2) Amazon give Alexa more patience (Ars Technica) 3) Conversational AI market to reach $32B globally by 2030 (Yahoo) 4) AI is still awesome, 20 years later (Cult of Whatever) ------- Project Voice X takes place October 25-27 in Destin / Fort Walton Beach, Florida. For more information, visit www.ProjectVoice.ai.

This Week In Voice returns for Season 6! The season premiere is an interview with Cerence CEO Sanjay Dhawan, covering voice's evolved role in the car, how the company views the return to work and future of work, Cerence's positioning relative to big tech, and what's next for the company.

This Week In Voice takes a break from the usual news of the week in voice technology and conversational AI to speak with Dr. Teri Fisher, creator of Alexa in Canada and Voice First Health podcasts, numerous voice training materials, and The Voice Den, a pandemic-era social experience for the voice community. Teri is celebrating 1,000 flash briefings produced and published - a remarkable achievement. This interview spans all of those topics and more. This Week In Voice is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network, which itself is part of the Project Voice Media Group.

This Week In Voice, Season 5 Episode 4, features Simon Lau (Otter.ai) and Nick Livingston (HoneIt). Stories for discussion include: 1) Voice Assistants and the Election 1a) Voicebot: How Voice Assistants Are Responding To Election Result Updates 1b) Voicebot: How Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant Are Reporting On Election Day 2) Press Gazette (UK): Smart Audio: What Publishers Need To Know About The Latest Tech Revolution 3) MIT Technology Review: AI Pioneer Geoff Hinton: Deep Learning Is Going To Be Able To Do Everything (this is paywalled behind a limited number of free articles, let me know if you can't access) 4) Tech Xplore: Computer Scientist...Develops AI To Explain Its Discoveries This Week In Voice is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

This Week In Voice, Season 5 Episode 3, features special guests Patricia Scanlon (Soapbox Labs), Julia Liberty (AI Data Innovations), and Dr. Phillip Alvelda (Brainworks). Stories for discussion include: 1) MacRumors: Apple Acquires AI Startup Vilynx To Improve Siri 2) TechCrunch: Apple Search Crawler Activity Could Signal A Google Competitor 3) Adobe: Voice Technology's Role In Our Rapidly Changing World 4) Voicebot: Voice-Activated Museum "Planet Word" Opens In DC This Week In Voice is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

This Week In Voice, Season 5 Episode 2, features special guests Caitlin Gutekunst (Creativity, Inc.), Lisa Michaud (Interactions), and Kat Zdan (Google). Stories for discussion include: 1) Voicebot: Alexa Now Offers Personalized Reading Recommendations 2) Android Police: A Secret, Unreleased Option Lets Users Invoke Assistant On Smart Displays Without Saying "Hey Google" 3) MIT Technology Review: The True Dangers Of AI Are Closer Than We Think 4) Behold, The Smart Cactus! This Week In Voice is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network. Follow along with This Week In Voice VIP, the daily letter to the voice tech and AI communities around the world. Available through our friends at Substack here: https://thisweekinvoice.substack.com/

Hosted by Bradley Metrock and featuring guests Daniela Braga (CEO, DefinedCrowd), Nils Lenke (VP Apps, Cerence) and Derek Roberti (VP Technology, North America, Cognigy), This Week In Voice kicks off Season 5 with stories checking in on Google, Amazon, and Apple's voice/AI ecosystems. Additionally, a story about protecting children from AI is part of the show, and the first episode of Season 5 wraps with each of the guests discussing what they and their companies are most looking forward to as we approach 2021. A summary of the episode, along with a variety of quotes, were published as part of This Week In Voice VIP, the daily letter to the voice and AI tech communities. Check out the newsletter here: https://thisweekinvoice.substack.com/ This Week In Voice is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

The fifth of five special healthcare episodes of This Week In Voice features a roundtable discussion on the intersection of voice tech, conversational AI, and the hidden data within human speech. Caitlyn Brooksby (Canary Speech), Aaron Bours (Hyro.ai), Kenn Harper (Nuance), Scott Sandland (Cyrano.ai), and Mike Page (Phebi.ai) round out a powerhouse panel.

The fourth of five special healthcare episodes of This Week In Voice features a roundtable discussion on the intersection of voice tech, conversational AI, and health insurance. Audrey Arbeeny (Audiobrain), Bhagvan Kommadi (ValueMomentum), Maaike Coppens (Promptful), Matt Cybulsky (IONIA), and Mika Eddy (UnitedHealth Group) round out a powerhouse panel.