The Voicebot Podcast is about the intersection of voice and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. It is a weekly look at trends, founders and newsmakers and supplements the daily research, analysis and news found at https://voicebot.ai.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 15 days 23 hours 17 minutes
episode 214: Brad Stone Author of Amazon Unbound
Brad Stone is the New York Times bestselling author of two books about Amazon, The Everything Store and Amazon Unbound. Together, they tell a complete story of Amazon over 25 years of evolution. Amazon Unbound includes an in-depth look at the origin...
episode 213: Joseph Turow Author of Voice Catchers on Voice Tech, Marketing and Privacy
Joseph Turow is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication -- the same school where he earned his PhD. Turow is the author of over 150 articles and 10 books including the recently published The Voice Catchers:...
episode 212: Ian Freed CEO of Bamboo Learning and Head of Amazon Devices When Alexa Launched
Ian Freed is co-founder and CEO of Bamboo Learning, the creators of award-winning Alexa skills for childhood education. As you know, 2020 changed everything in education and Bamboo is filling an interesting gap for in-home learning since 2018. Before...
episode 211: Danny Tomsett CEO of UneeQ Talks Virtual Humans
Danny Tomsett is the founder and CEO of UneeQ. He founded the company in 2009. It was originally called FaceMe and was focused on video chat with humans for customer service. The idea was ahead of its time. Several years ago the company shifted to the...
episode 210: Lauren Kunze CEO of Pandorabots on Chatbots and Virtual Humans
Lauren Kunze became CEO of Pandorabots in 2013. However, her involvement with the company goes back to 2002. As a teenager she developed one of the first chatbots, Lauren bot, using the company's technology. So, Lauren has had a front row seat to the...
episode 209: Rob Hayes Head of Product at Voiceflow Talks Conversation Experience Design
Rob Hayes is head of product at Voiceflow. He spent the past 18 months helping transform the no-code builder for Alexa skills into a multi-platform design and prototyping solution for enterprise-grade conversational experiences. Today, Voiceflow has...
episode 208: Audioburst Co-founders Amir Hirsh and Gal Klein
Amir Hirsh (CEO) and Gal Klein (CTO) are co-founders of Audioburst. We gathered in Clubhouse to discuss analyzing, segmenting, packaging and making talk audio content discoverable in real-time. Audioburst is doing this daily on millions of minutes of...
episode 207: Spotify Voice AI and Social Audio Strategy with Messina, Kemp, Schwartz and Greenberg
Spotify recently released a custom voice assistant called 'Hey Spotify,' acquired (then rebranded) Locker Room as the foundation of a new social audio feature, and announced a new in-car voice-interactive device for audio content while on the go. I...
episode 206: Dr. Patricia Scanlon of SoapBox Labs Talks Voice AI and Education
Dr. Patricia Scanlon is CEO and co-founder of SoapBox Labs, the leading company focused on voice recognition technology for children. Most voice recognition solutions today are optimized for adult speakers and have high error rates when applied to...
episode 205: Nuance Acquired by Microsoft: Breaking Down the $20B Deal
Microsoft announced a $20 billion acquisition of Nuance this past week and Voicebot invited four experts in the field to help break down why the deal makes sense and what it means for the industry. Kavita Reddi is co-founder of Voxta, a provider...