365 Tech By Sweets

"Interpreter Mode comes to iOS and Android, making it easier to converse somewhat seamlessly across language barriers." "Hey Google, be my [insert language of choice here] translator,"  Source: Wired - https://www.wired.com/story/google-assistant-can-now-translate-on-your-phone/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/voicefirstai/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/voicefirstai/support

1. Echo hides Christmas Alexa delivery notifications from November 17th until Christmas. 2. Cathy Pearl VUI shortcomings: * Publis Spaces * Privacy * Text Preference * Discomfort speaking to a computer. 3. Phil Sheen - authentication in a world without keyboards. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/voicefirstai/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/voicefirstai/support

"Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG) announced today that its customers can now use the Chipotle skill for Alexa to reorder their favorite Chipotle meals for delivery or pickup. To celebrate the reorder skill and the company reaching seven million enrollments, Chipotle is giving away Amazon Echo Dots to all of its existing Chipotle Rewards members named Alexa. To get started, download the Amazon Alexa app, enable the Chipotle skill, link your Chipotle profile and reorder your go-to Chipotle meal. It's as simple as: "Alexa, tell Chipotle to reorder my favorite for delivery." "We always strive to introduce additional access points in the Chipotle ordering experience and overall digital ecosystem," said Nicole West, Vice President of Digital Strategy and Product Management at Chipotle. "With this new skill for Alexa, our customers can get their favorite Chipotle orders delivered straight to their door in the most convenient way possible – all they need to do is ask." Additionally, Chipotle has also rolled out its

Today's episode from Hilary Hayes. Originally discovered on LinkedIn. Originally posted on medium. "Today, UX and UI designers can download asset packs to modularly build interfaces... However, voice experiences lack the established design patterns... We need to start centralizing and standardizing the practice...documenting and sharing methods for visualizing voice interactions and conversation mapping will strengthen the voice design ecosystem, making it easier for more unique perspectives to join the conversation - leading to greater potential for success for all. The more people that jump in and debate emerging conventions, the more that we can iterate and improve." Source: Medium - “This Is What A Voice Experience Looks Like” by Hilary Hayes https://link.medium.com/SsqJAVLig2 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/voicefirstai/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/voicefirstai/support

From the book Ubiquitous Voice: Essays from the Field edited by Lisa Falkson. "Over the next five years, we’re likely to see dozens of devices in our homes embedded with microphones. Today, the Echo, Home, and HomePod are gaining a lot of prominence and third party hardware makers such as iHome and iDevices have announced devices that will embed Alexa and Google Assistant in their products. The embedding of these AI assistants has spilled beyond the smart speaker to many different connected devices... Hardware makers and brands that haven’t yet implemented voice interaction into their products are asking themselves whether they too should be introducing this capability. The calculation is between whether voice is a “passing fad” or whether the cost of adding voice will provide enough incremental value to maintain market share or the price of the product." Source: “Thinking About Adding Voice Capabilities to Your Product? Consider This” by Leor Grebler https://link.medium.com/gHecKuP7f2 --- Send in a voice

Pew Research Center Survey 1. Smart speaker ownership varies across demographic groups. 2. just over half of smart speaker owners are at least somewhat concerned about the amount of data collected by these devices. 3. Americans who own smart speaker devices have mixed views on whether it is important for this technology to personalize their preferences. 4. Americans are wary of data from smart speakers being used in criminal investigations. 5. Some owners try to be polite when addressing their smart speakers. Sources: Pew Research: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/11/21/5-things-to-know-about-americans-and-their-smart-speakers/ Today: https://www.today.com/health/should-you-be-polite-your-smart-speakers-why-many-people-t169365 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/voicefirstai/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/voicefirstai/support

"in the old days of corporate America and assistant would bring you coffee. Today the assistant is Alexa or Google or some other voice assistant, and they don't directly bring you coffee... Yet" "over 30% of US adults now have at least one smart speaker, 60% have used a voice assistant on a smartphone, and the market penetration continues to grow. currently people use their voice assistance for a lot of music playing, alarm setting in general queries. Another trend is occurring in parallel to the growth of voice assistance, and that is the market for ordering ahead for food to go." Source: voicebot & Todd mozer (CEO @Sensory) - https://voicebot.ai/2019/12/07/can-your-assistant-deliver/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/voicefirstai/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/voicefirstai/support

Do voice assistant users prefer human voices over synthetic voices and if so, by how much? Source: what consumers want in voice app design and empirical study from November 2019. A research collaboration by: voicebot.ai & voices.com & pulselabs Report - https://voicebot.ai/what-consumers-want-in-voice-app-design-2019/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/voicefirstai/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/voicefirstai/support

International expansion of Alexa in skill purchasing to Italy, France, and Spain. Voicebot: https://voicebot.ai/2019/12/02/amazon-brings-alexa-skills-monetization-to-france-italy-and-spain/ Amazon Developer: https://developer.amazon.com/it-IT/blogs/alexa/alexa-skills-kit/2019/11/in-skill-purchasing-isp-now-available-in-france-italy-and-spain --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/voicefirstai/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/voicefirstai/support

New Amazon Alexa releases of Alexa emotions and Alexa speaking styles. These SSML tags help you express emotion which increases overall satisfaction and increases how natural sounding your experiences are. "Early customer feedback indicates that overall satisfaction with the voice experience increased by 30% when Alexa responded with emotions. ...While conducting ‘blind listening’ tests, the news style was perceived to be 31% more natural than Alexa’s standard voice and the music style was perceived to be 84% more natural." Amazon Alexa documentation: https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/blogs/alexa/alexa-skills-kit/2019/11/new-alexa-emotions-and-speaking-styles --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/voicefirstai/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/voicefirstai/support

Amazon echo Dot (3rd gen): Echo Dot (3rd Gen) - Smart speaker with Alexa - Sandstone https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PGL2N7J/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_VLy5DbEG6BFJN Amazon echo show 5: Echo Show 5 - Compact smart display with Alexa - Charcoal https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HZLHPKP/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_lMy5DbFATE88N Amazon echo show (2nd gen): Echo Show (2nd Gen) - Premium sound and a vibrant 10.1" HD screen - Charcoal https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077SXWSRP/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_aLy5DbEGXKJ78 Google store: https://store.google.com/us/search?q=Google%20home&hl=en-US --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/voicefirstai/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/voicefirstai/support

Internet of Things get smarter with smaller Alexa. Decreased size from offloading work from devices to the cloud in fast, real-time operating systems and constant connectivity for ambient computing. From Amazon: " Today, smart home IoT devices are Built with low cost microcontrollers (MCU) with limited memory to run real time operating systems. Until now, AVS solutions for Alexa Built-in products required expensive application processor-based devices with >50MB memory running on Linux or Android. These expensive hardware requirements made it cost prohibitive to integrate Alexa Voice on resource constrained IoT devices. AVS for AWS IoT enables Alexa Built-in functionality on MCUs like ARM Cortex ‘M’ class with

Ladies Love Launy from Columbus Voice Boot Camp:Musician Eddition. Launy is the King of Ohio, the first artist on Columbus Voice Boot Camp: Musician Edition, host of Power Columbus 107. . Thursday, November 14, 2019. Our goal is to create a holistic balance between artificial intelligence and midwestern love. Artists include: * Ladies Love Launy: https://www.instagram.com/ladieslovelauny/?hl=en * TrigNO: https://www.instagram.com/trigno__/?hl=en * Tonika Marie: https://www.instagram.com/tonikamarie/?hl=en * Amaninauzuri: https://www.instagram.com/amaninauzuri/?hl=en * Spirit of the Bear: https://www.instagram.com/spiritofthebear/?hl=en . Special thanks to: * Bask Sessions: https://www.instagram.com/basksessions/?hl=en * Oranjudio: http://oranjudio.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/voicefirstai/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/voicefirstai/support

Bask Sessions & October Jonez meet to record the October Jonez Bask Session. "I think the owners and the people that they trust that work out of here they're doing their best to make it sound really fucking good, you know? You're not going to hear records coming out of here that don't that aren't good you know? Not that we're picking and choosing! We just find ourselves working with qualified artists that are really pushing the boundaries and we want to work equally as hard as them so..." - Jimmy @Oranjudio Columbus Voice Bootcamp: Musician Edition: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/columbus-voice-bootcamp-musician-edition-tickets-72799079005 Hosted by Oranjudio: http://oranjudio.com/ the October Jonez: https://www.instagram.com/theoctoberjonez/?hl=en Bask Sessions: https://www.instagram.com/basksessions/?hl=en --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/voicefirstai/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/voicefirstai/support

Thursday, November 14, 2019. Our goal is to create a holistic balance between artificial intelligence and midwestern love.  Artists include: * Ladies Love Launy: https://www.instagram.com/ladieslovelauny/?hl=en * TrigNO: https://www.instagram.com/trigno__/?hl=en * Tonika Marie: https://www.instagram.com/tonikamarie/?hl=en * Amaninauzuri: https://www.instagram.com/amaninauzuri/?hl=en * Spirit of the Bear: https://www.instagram.com/spiritofthebear/?hl=en Sign up now to join the community and receive performances, videos, podcasts, and beta access to the artists' artificial intelligence before anyone else. Columbus Voice Bootcamp: Musician Edition: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/columbus-voice-bootcamp-musician-edition-tickets-72799079005 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/voicefirstai/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/voicefirstai/support

Featuring Mike & Benny @BaskSessions.  "As per any hypothesis or research you kind of want a standard. And the standard is the bootcamp framework. At the end of it we release a white paper. Here's 6 artists. Never in the history of humanity have six artists put themselves on artificial intelligence & voice technology in this format. Here is the results of that! We're hitting on the waves of Instagram, of social media, of Google Assistant, of Amazon Alexa, of Black Friday, of literally all of that to say 'here is what they're doing. Take this white paper as a case study.'" Bask Sessions: https://www.instagram.com/basksessions/?hl=en Hosted by Shisha Lounge at 2369 N High St, Columbus, OH 43202 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/voicefirstai/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/voicefirstai/support

We live in the Speed & Convenience Era. How are you adapting? "I think we as humans are so lazy, that we are just adapting to whatever it is that can make our life easier. So, if that's one less thumb-swipe? Hell yeah dude!!! People are gonna eat that up, you know what I mean? Featuring Benny & Mike @BaskSessions. Bask Sessions: https://www.instagram.com/basksessions/?hl=en Hosted by Shisha Lounge at 2369 N High St, Columbus, OH 43202 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/voicefirstai/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/voicefirstai/support

Report from Journalism, Media, and Technology Trends and Predictions 2019 by Nic Newman More atomised news: News on voice devices currently means a linear bulletin that plays and can’t be easily controlled...Publishers like the BBC prefer to create their own destinations (these are called skills or actions in a voice world) where they can offer more personalised and controllable audio – as well as offering onward journeys to other content.  Voice news search gets better: Voice searches for cinema listings or celebrity birthdays work pretty well because the data is both limited in scope and well structured. News search is a much bigger problem and the platforms want publishers to create readable snippets of content that answer current questions. Expect to see platforms pushing publishers to use a new metadata specification called the ‘speakable schema’. Combined with the branded nuggets of atomised news, this will result in a much better voice search experience in 2019 where it will be possible to get a

Our generation has problems unlike any other. We must fight artificial intelligence. Not to defeat it, but to create a holistic balance in our local cultures and everyday lives. Bask Sessions believes in this mission. They are fighting to create the balance on Thursday November 14, 2019 in Columbus, Ohio. Where we will take 5 artists to become the pioneers of musicians adoption of Amazon Alexa & Google Assistant. Bask Sessions: https://www.instagram.com/basksessions/?hl=en Benny Lam: https://www.instagram.com/kung_fubenny/?hl=en Michael Warning: https://www.instagram.com/im_warningyou/?hl=en Columbus Voice Bootcamp: Musician Edition - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/columbus-voice-bootcamp-tickets-72799079005 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/voicefirstai/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/voicefirstai/support

4C Grow the Good Early Childhood Education and Leadership Conference in Cincinnati, OH on Oct 24, 2019. In the Age of Amazon Alexa & Google Assistant: Using Technology to Assist Parents. Level: Basic knowledge/experience In the age of the screen, parenting can be a challenge! Parents play a crucial role in the development of emotional and social knowledge that forms the bedrock of human development—so technology should assist them, not replace them. Learn how to help parents use tools like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant as an aid to more effective parenting. 4C Grow the Good Conference: http://ed.4cforchildren.org/conference/sessions.aspx 4C for Children: https://www.4cforchildren.org/ 4C for Children IG: https://www.instagram.com/4cforchildren/?hl=en Columbus Voice Bootcamp: Musician Edition: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/columbus-voice-bootcamp-tickets-72799079005 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/voicefirstai/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/voicefirstai/support