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 151: Specialty and Custom Voice Assistant Design with VUI Agency's Esslinger, Hassan, and Baumeister
Over the past few weeks, I have brought in executives from three companies with specialty assistants that have shown early promise: Deutsche Telekom, Josh.ai, and Aider. Today, we take a different angle on this topic and focus specifically on the...
episode 152: Alan AI CEO Ramu Sunkara Talks Voice Assistants for Enterprise Apps
My guest today is Ramu Sunkara, co-founder and CEO of Alan AI. In 2014, Ramu co-founded a company called Synqq which was a voice assistant for meetings. Sometimes startups are for learning. Synqq educated Ramu and his co-founder that enterprises truly...
episode 153: BBC Head of Voice and AI Andy Webb Discusses the Custom Voice Assistant Beeb
Andy Webb is head of product for voice and AI at BBC Worldwide as VP of Product Strategy. BBC has been a pioneer in supporting consumer assistants globally such as Amazon's Alexa and Google Assistant. It is prominent in the UK but also provides skills...
episode 154: Hey Swisscom Custom Voice Assistant Launch Journey with Riccardo Lopetrone and MIsha Zivkovic
Voice at Swisscom began in 2015 with a voice interactive TV remote. The voice assistant Hey Swisscom emerged five years later in November 2019. Misha Zivkovic and Riccardo Lopetrone learned a lot in both versions of their voice-enabled products and...
episode 155: Mike Zagorsek of SoundHound Discusses What it Takes to Deploy a Custom Voice Assistant
Mike Zagorsek is vice president of product marketing at SoundHound. Prior to SoundHound, Zagorsek was head of product marketing at Square and Leap Motion, and before that was Director of Interactive at Apple. Way back in 1999, he was a Manager at...
episode 156: Punit Soni Founder and CEO of Suki the Voice Assistant for Healthcare
Punit Soni is founder and CEO of Suki. The company provides a specialty voice assistant for doctors and other clinicians and he elaborates how its features go beyond the earlier technologies associated with medical dictation and transcription. The...
episode 157: Alan Nichol CTO and Co-founder of Rasa
Alan Nichol co-founded Rasa in December 2016. Rasa began life as an open source NLU for chatbots and has expanded to other features, including voice interactivity. The company raised $13 million in venture funding in 2019 and came back about twelve...
episode 158: Scott Stephenson CEO and Cofounder of Deepgram
Scott Stephenson is cofounder and CEO of Deepgram. He earned a PhD in particle physics at the University of Michigan with a focus on Machine Learning. He then spent time building a system designed to detect dark matter two miles underground....
episode 159: Peter Durlach SVP of Healthcare Strategy at Nuance
Peter Durlach started out in Audiology technology in the 1980s and then quickly transitioned to speech technology in 1988 at Articulate Systems which was acquired by Lernout and Hauspie in 1999. He then moved on to lead Unveil Technologies, a pioneer...
episode 160: Todd Mozer CEO of Sensory Talks Custom Assistants
Todd Mozer is founder, Chairman, and CEO of Sensory. The company has provided voice and AI technology for 3 billion devices over 25 years. Sensory's technology stack can be used to deploy a custom assistant in an appliance or mobile app and also has...