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The Voicebot Podcast : Google Assistant Retreats on Conversational Actions with Firstenberg, Tucker, and Schwartz - Voic...
19/06/2022

The Voicebot Podcast : Google Assistant Retreats on Conversational Actions with Firstenberg, Tucker, and Schwartz - Voicebot Podcast Ep 258

Google announced it will be sunsetting support for third-party conversational actions–the voice apps that work with Google Assistant–in June 2023. It decided there was no point in maintaining a separate app store just for voice and it is encouraging conversational action developers to port ...

The Voicebot Podcast : Voice Shopping Data Deep Dive - Voicebot Podcast Ep 241
19/01/2022

The Voicebot Podcast : Voice Shopping Data Deep Dive - Voicebot Podcast Ep 241

Today's episode breaks down some of the key findings from the Voice Shopping Consumer Adoption Report for 2021. Data presented goes back to 2018 and shows a rising trend in adoption. Learn about total users, total consumer interest, product categories, average voice shopping order size, demographic....

The Voicebot Podcast : Voice Year in Review 2021 The Consumer Edition - Voicebot Podcast 240
07/01/2022

The Voicebot Podcast : Voice Year in Review 2021 The Consumer Edition - Voicebot Podcast 240

This is the U.S. edition and the Consumer edition of our two-part year in review episodes. We discuss the industry globally from a U.S. perspective with three guests that include: Chithra Durgam - Founder Blue Check Skill which helps bring celebrities and brands onto Amazon Alexa and also is a pract...

The Voicebot Podcast : Voice Year in Review 2021 The Enterprise Edition - Voicebot Podcast Ep 239
27/12/2021

The Voicebot Podcast : Voice Year in Review 2021 The Enterprise Edition - Voicebot Podcast Ep 239

This week we discuss voice year in review for 2021. All of the guests in this episode are based in Europe but operate globally so you will get both perspectives. Also, the conversation is heavily skewed toward enterprise voice applications because that drove so much of the important news in 2021. We...

The Voicebot Podcast : Jon Stine Founder and Executive Director of the Open Voice Network - Voicebot Podcast Ep 238
23/12/2021

The Voicebot Podcast : Jon Stine Founder and Executive Director of the Open Voice Network - Voicebot Podcast Ep 238

Jon Stine is the Executive Director and founder of the Open Voice Network. Prior to founding OVN, Stine was global director of retail sales at Intel and a director of North American retail at Cisco. He has an MS in telecommunications from the University of Oregon. Today we talk about voice assistant...

The Voicebot Podcast : Raghu Ravinutala CEO of Yellow AI - Voicebot Podcast Ep 237
15/12/2021

The Voicebot Podcast : Raghu Ravinutala CEO of Yellow AI - Voicebot Podcast Ep 237

Raghu Ravinutala co-founded in 2015 to solve a problem he personally had encountered, poor customer support experiences. A former IC chip designer, Raghu was drawn by the idea that conversational AI combined with back-end systems integration could fully automate a wide array of customer problems nea...

The Voicebot Podcast : Vinay Shukla CEO of ConverseNow on Voice Assistants for Restaurants - Voicebot Podcast Ep 236
02/12/2021

The Voicebot Podcast : Vinay Shukla CEO of ConverseNow on Voice Assistants for Restaurants - Voicebot Podcast Ep 236

Vinay Shukla is CEO and co-founder of ConverseNow and the former founder and President of Endeavour Software. Endeavour was acquired by Genpact in 2016 where Vinay served as vice president of digital for two years before founding ConverseNow. Today we discuss ConverseNow's original focus, its pivot....

The Voicebot Podcast : Roger Kibbe on the Evolution of Samsung Bixby and Voice Assistants - Voicebot Podcast Ep 235
21/11/2021

The Voicebot Podcast : Roger Kibbe on the Evolution of Samsung Bixby and Voice Assistants - Voicebot Podcast Ep 235

Roger Kibbe is Senior Developer Evangelist at Viv Labs which is the home of Bixby in Samsung Research Americas. Today, we discuss the evolution of Bixby and voice assistants over the past five years. In particular, we break down the new Bixby Home features and the rise of AI in smart home features.....

The Voicebot Podcast : Rob Carpenter CEO of Valyant on Voice in the Drive Through - Voicebot Podcast Ep 232
31/10/2021

The Voicebot Podcast : Rob Carpenter CEO of Valyant on Voice in the Drive Through - Voicebot Podcast Ep 232

Rob Carpenter founded Valyant in 2017 with a specific focus on developing a voice assistant drive-through solution for fast food restaurants. While Carpenter insists Valyant is building a platform that can support other use cases in the future, he also is clearly focused on mastering the drive-throu...

The Voicebot Podcast : Edward Saatchi Founder of Fable Studio on Creating Virtual Beings - Voicebot Podcast Ep 231
21/10/2021

The Voicebot Podcast : Edward Saatchi Founder of Fable Studio on Creating Virtual Beings - Voicebot Podcast Ep 231

Edward Saatchi is the founder of Fable Studio which is bringing AR and VR characters to life for the metaverse. Fable is creating both characters and a world where you can interact with them, but more interestingly, where these virtual beings can learn and evolve. Prior to Fable Studio, Saatchi was....

The Voicebot Podcast : Greg Cross Co-founder of Soul Machines on Virtual Humans and Interactive Animation - Voicebot Pod...
11/10/2021

The Voicebot Podcast : Greg Cross Co-founder of Soul Machines on Virtual Humans and Interactive Animation - Voicebot Podcast Ep 230

Greg Cross is co-founder and chief business officer of Soul Machines, a leader in the creation of virtual humans (aka digital people). We discuss the origin story that goes back to 2012 as a research organization set up at the University of Aukland through the founding of Soul Machines in 2016, how....

The Voicebot Podcast : Amazon Product Launch Event 2021 Hot Takes from Voice Industry Leaders - Voicebot Podcast Ep 229
01/10/2021

The Voicebot Podcast : Amazon Product Launch Event 2021 Hot Takes from Voice Industry Leaders - Voicebot Podcast Ep 229

Amazon just announced a custom voice assistant deal with Disney and a bushel full of new products including a smart display you hang on the wall and a home robot. After the event concluded, a few of us gathered in the Voicebot Discord Community to discuss what we saw, our initial reactions, and what...

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