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Molly Dickinson is a User Experience Lead at Expedia, and ex-Senior User Experience Designer at Home Depot. Molly has specialised in conversation design for the past 3 years and joins us share her learnings, as well as some details on the conversational AI initiatives underway at Expedia.Join VUX World at the EU Chatbot Summit where we’ll be hosting a full day of enterprise AI best practice content, with the likes of Vodafone, Love Holidays, LNER and many more. We have a 30% DISCOUNT for you too: VUXEU23 to attend: https://theeuropeanchatbot.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Paulina Lewandowska is a conversation designer at Roche, a global pharmaceutical company. After a recent trial of digital humans for patient care and diagnosis, Paulina joins us to share the lessons and findings. Can digital humans improve the patient-doctor relationship? Can emotion recognition help deliver better care? What are the practical challenges and considerations for bring digital humans to production? We're about to find out.Join VUX World at the EU Chatbot Summit where we’ll be hosting a full day of enterprise AI best practice content, with the likes of Vodafone, Love Holidays, LNER and many more. We have a 30% DISCOUNT for you too: VUXEU23 to attend: https://theeuropeanchatbot.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Capita is a large, UK-based BPO and professional services organisation that built its reputation and legacy supplying government technology solutions. Today, Capita is exploring conversational AI and digital humans for a range of use cases and industries. James Brooks, Innovation Principle at Capita, joins us to share more on what he and his team have learned through experimenting with conversational AI, large language models and digital humans.Join VUX World at the EU Chatbot Summit where we’ll be hosting a full day of enterprise AI best practice content, with the likes of Vodafone, Love Holidays, LNER and many more. We have a 30% DISCOUNT for you too: VUXEU23 to attend: https://theeuropeanchatbot.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Conversation designer Esha Metiary talks about why some bots should be prepared to discuss political matters. Can you imagine talking to a branded bot that doesn't want to discuss Black Lives Matter when the brand itself promotes those values? The bot is on the front line between customer and brand, so if the brand has those values, surely the bot should represent those values. We talk about this and more! 00:00intro01:0530 seconds, go05:55what does the term 'persona' mean to you?06:47what's the purpose of a bot's persona?10:30the bot is a new employee for the brand12:28how should designer envision the bot's persona?14:20what do we mean by 'political opinions'?17:05a question for the bot is a question for the brand18:16are bots apolitical from the start?20:44should we ignroe the customers when they want a stereotyped personality?24:18shouldn't bots stay out of political discussions?29:10could we make a safe space for users where politics isn't in the discussion?31:32how should conversation designers incorpora

Sonia Talati is A Senior Manager for Conversation Design at GoDaddy; a speaker and ex-TV anchor with tremendous experience in conversational AI. After co-founding Hereafter, a CAI startup that helps keep the memories of loved ones alive, Sonia now heads up conversation design at the world's largest website hosting company: GoDaddy.Sonia joins us to share her experience in conversational AI, as well as how GoDaddy is utilising the technology. We'll discuss the challenges that experienced conversation designers face today, and the ingredients to scaling a design practice globally. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you're a keen part of the conversational AI community, you'll likely know Jim Rowe-Bot. Jim has immense experience in designing conversational AI applications, having worked on over 300 chatbot projects. Jim Rowe-Bot joins Kane-versational AI to chat about lessons learned, best practice and the future of conversational AI.Purchase Jims ebook "How To Be a Great Conversational Designer"​ here: https://www.paypal.com/webapps/hermes?token=30810429YL523245M&useraction=commit&mfid=1671185940654_f568963212092 The botrepreneurs website: https://www.botrepreneurs.live/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jason F. Gilbert (aka The BotMan) is the Lead Character Designer at Intuition Robotics. Originally a filmmaker, he's worked on loads of bots through the years for various brands on chat and voice, as well as digital humans (such as 'Anna') and now with ElliQ - a robotic companion for elderly Americans. We talked about personas, multimodality, TTS and SSML, empathetic bots like ElliQ and more... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What if you could detect the tone of voice of callers and figure out whether they're lying or telling the truth? Whether they're confident or bullsh*tting. This is voice AI taken to a new level. We're joined by Helios Life Enterprises co-founder and CEO, Sean Austin, to learn more.Join our next webinar, conversational commerce: how AI-powered digital workers can boost sales: Find out more: https://vux.world/conversational-commerce-how-ai-powered-digital-workers-can-boost-sales/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After founding Skilled Creative 2017, and turning it into one of the most notable voice agencies, Brandon Kaplan and his crew of emerging tech pioneers combined forces to create Journey; an innovation and design consultancy conceived to help brands envision, plan, and effectively build the next generation of fan experiences and customer journeys.Brandon joins us to share his vision for the future of conversational AI in emerging tech spaces, such as AI-assisted creativity and content and web 3. Join us for what'll be an immersive Journey.Join our next webinar, conversational commerce: how AI-powered digital workers can boost sales: Find out more: https://vux.world/conversational-commerce-how-ai-powered-digital-workers-can-boost-sales/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Emily Uematsu Banzhaf talks to Ben McCulloch about conversation design. Emily is a Content Designer at WillowTree, a conversation/VUI designer, she leads the ethical use taskforce at Open Voice Network, and she's also a professional violinist!We talked about personas, ethics and the sound of conversations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you're in banking and you haven't been seriously considering your conversational AI strategy, then where have you been?Yes, it's early, but the banking industry is one of the stand-out industries where conversational AI can add immeasurable benefit to your business operations and customer experience. One person who's been through the end-to-end journey of formulating the strategy, building the team and deploying the solution is Bill Hawks. Bill is Digital Customer Experience Manager - Conversational AI & Virtual Client Service at Citizens Bank, where he's leading the CX digital strategy. Prior to that, Bill was Sr. Digital Product Manager at Truist Bank, where he led the conversational AI strategy, team and solutions. Bill joins us to share his lessons in how you can create an effective digital assistant for banking, as well as learnings that'll apply to any business leader considering their transformation strategy and how CAI can play a role.Join our next webinar, conversational commerce: how AI-power

Learn how Canada’s largest bank is approaching conversational automation, as we step through the journey into creating the Scotiabank digital assistant, with Fabio Sarti, Sr. AI/ML Product Manager.Fabio joins us to share everything from use cases and channels to technical implementation to privacy and early results achieved since launching its assistant in May. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Collin Carnahan is a Senior UX Conversation Designer at Workday. Collin joins us to share how he and his team implemented conversation design systems and processes into a largely development and technically driven organisation. One of the crucial elements of getting the customer experience right with conversational applications is that they're designed right. That's not to say that technical developers don't have a role to play, or that conversation design needs to trump development in all cases. It's to say that conversation design needs a seat at the big table. In this conversation, we'll discuss some of the symptoms of developer-led conversational AI initiatives, the impact that too much technical and not enough design focus has on customer experience, and the benefits of being design-led. We'll also discuss implementing a design system for conversational AI, scaling conversational applications and more insights on the benefits conversational AI is delivering at Workday.Find out more about VUX @ VOICE22 pr

Die hard VUX World fans will remember the episode with Vonage’s Noam Fine, discussing the then recent acquisition of Open AI by Vonage and the plans to build an AI Studio. One year, and another acquisition later (Vonage itself was recently acquired by Ericsson), and those plans have come to fruition with the recent general release of the Vonage AI Studio.In this episode, I’m joined by two of the leading brains on the Vonage APIs side of the business: Amitha Pulijala, Vice President of Product, and Lawrence Byrd, Communications APIs. Amitha and Lawrence share their observations on market adoption of conversational AI technologies: which markets are growing, on which channels and what use cases? We’ll also chat about business expectations of AI, core adoption challenges and the trend of multimodal design.Find out more about VUX @ VOICE22 presented by Kore AI: www.voicesummit.ai and save 20% on tickets with the code VUX20 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As fantastic as text-based NLP systems are, you can't beat voice. There's so much data in the spoken word that businesses can use to improve their customer experience and add business value. Today, Senseforth co-founder and CEO, Shridhar Marri, joins us to shine some light on the top use cases and future of voice intelligence.Find out more about VUX @ VOICE22 presented by Kore AI: www.voicesummit.ai and save 20% on tickets with the code VUX20 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Harshali Desai, Sr Product Marketing Manager, and Mitch Mason, Product Manager, both work on the conversational AI side of Genesys, the industry-leading CCaaS provider. Harshali and Mitch both join us to share the Genesys approach to conversation design, knowledge management, agent assist and process automation.Find out more about VUX @ VOICE22 presented by Kore AI: www.voicesummit.ai and save 20% on tickets with the code VUX20 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Conversational AI works perfectly when it's applied to conversations that are routine. Conversations that happen all the time with regularity are prime opportunities to automate because they're typically conversations that have defined outcomes. Outcomes that can get boring for a human to pursue. The drive through ordering experience is one of those scenarios. Vehicle after vehicle, having variations of the same conversation, day in, day out. Many have tried to experiment with conversational AI for this use case, most notably, McDonalds. However, just because users are having a similar conversation each time, that doesn't make this use case simple. McDonald's, for example, has hundreds of different menu items, different prices based on different locations and promotions changing constantly. Then you have to handle all kinds of ambient noise, different accents and even languages. The drive through ordering experience is therefore pretty complex for an AI to handle. But, handle it, it does.We're joined by HUEX

OneReach.AI featured as a Leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Conversational AI platforms this year. However, when compared to other platforms out there, there's something distinctly different about the OneReach.AI approach.Yes, there's a big focus on conversational AI technologies, however, there's just as much (if not more) focus on business process automation. The types of use cases the platform enables are truly transformative and we could all learn a lot about the OneReach automation and AI philosophy. And that's what we're going to do today, with Kevin Fredrick, Managing Partner, OneReach.AIBuckle up.Up your CX maturity in this free workshop with yours truly and Cognigy. Find out more: https://vux.world/cognigyFind out more about VUX @ VOICE22 presented by Kore AI: www.voicesummit.ai and save 20% on tickets with the code VUX20 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ever wondered why you in-car voice assistant never hears what you say? Ever caught yourself shouting into your headphones on a busy road, trying to wake up your assistant? One of the most challenging parts of voice AI is picking out voices in noisy environments. You can retrain speech recognition models using acoustic modelling and invest in beamforming microphones, but that might not be enough. Today, we meet the company that has cracked voice recognition in extremely noisy environments. Yobe co-founder and CEO, Ken Sutton, and Hamid Nawab, Co-founder and Chief Scientist, joins us to share more on how he and his team have cracked the ‘cocktail party problem’.Visit https://yobeinc.com Up your CX maturity in this free workshop with yours truly and Cognigy. Find out more: https://vux.world/cognigyFind out more about VUX @ VOICE22 presented by Kore AI: www.voicesummit.ai and save 20% on tickets with the code VUX20 Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information

Peter Voss coined the term ‘AGI’ (artificial general intelligence) and is one of the best brains in the business to discuss the real potential of artificial intelligence to behave like humans. Can we build machines that can think? That are conscious? What needs to happen for us to have that ever-present AI assistant we’ve been dreaming of? The JARVIS, the Holly, the Computer, the Hal’s of the world. Peter Voss is the co-founder, CEO and Chief Scientist at Aigo, a conversational AI technology that uses a brain-like cognitive architecture – also known as ‘The Third Wave of AI’. According to Peter, this approach puts Aigo at ‘Light Years’ ahead of chatbots and other so-called ‘Personal Assistants’, and puts it at the forefront of Conversational AI.Current chatbot technologies used in the enterprise and consumer space, have serious inherent limitations: They do not remember what was said before, cannot learn interactively, do not have deep contextual understanding, and cannot reason or explain themselves. This ma