Future Ear Radio

Guests: Alan Davis, CPO at Nuheara; Andy Bellavia, Director of Market Development at Knowles Corp Topic: Building a Successful Hearable at Nuheara Alan joins Andy and Dave on the podcast this week to talk through the first 5 years at Nuheara as the Chief Product Officer and how his team of engineers was able to successfully build and iterate three separate versions of Nuheara's flagship hearing-en...

Guest: Anna Rosen, Enterprise Solutions Engineer at Voiceflow Topic: Voiceflow 2.0 & The Democratization of Conversational App Creation Anna joins Dave this week to break down the big update to Voiceflow's conversational AI platform, V2. Voiceflow is a prototyping and design tool that allows teams of designers and developers to bring ideas to life and test their conversational AI creations in...

Guests: Luke Pearce, Market Analyst (Consumer Audio) at Futuresource Consulting; Andy Bellavia, Director of Market Development at Knowles Corp Topic: Breaking Down Hearables' Massive Growth in 2020 & What's on the Hearables' Horizon Luke and Andy sit down with Dave this week to talk through Futuresource's 2020 Hearables Market Report, citing the key findings and then talking through some of th...

Guest: De Wet Swanepoel, Founder of HearX Group, Professor of Audiology at University of Pretoria, Editor in Chief at International Journal of Audiology Topic: HearX, Having a Remote-Oriented Mindset, and Health Hearing for Everyone, Everywhere De Wet joins Dave on the podcast this week to share the vision of his company, HearX Group, which is to provide healthy hearing to everyone, everywhere. He...

Guests: Dr. Ed Farrar, Co-Founder of Oto ; Ben Thompson, AuD, Audiologist, Tinnitus Specialist, and Founder of Pure Tinnitus . Topic: Tinnitus Therapy Solutions in 2021 In honor of Tinnitus Awareness Week, Dave is joined this week by two leading tinnitus experts to talk through all things tinnitus. The three discuss Ed's company, Oto, which is an app-based solution that provides smartphone users w...

Guests: Dr. Natalie Phillips, Audiologist at Advanced Otolaryngology and Audiology. Founder/CEO of Connect4Excellence; Dr. Angela Alexander,  Audiologist & Owner of Auditory Processing Network and APDSupport.com. Topic: Breaking down the hot new social audio app, Clubhouse, and how hearing professionals might be able to leverage it. Dave sits down this week with Dr. Natalie Phillips &...

Guest: Ron Jaworski - CEO & Founder of Trinity Audio Topic: Making the Internet Audible Dave kicks off Season 2 of the podcast with Ron Jaworski to discuss the innovation transpiring around text-to-speech, which Ron's company, Trinity Audio, is spearheading. The two chat about how the attention economy and the broad internet is gradually migrating toward our ears, and while audiobooks and podc...

Guests: D'Anne Rudden, AuD; Kat Penno, AuD; Nick Reed, AuD; Geoff Cooling; Kim Cavitt, AuD; Cliff Olson, AuD Topic: What are you looking forward to in 2021 as it relates to hearing health, audiology, and/or hearing technology? For the last episode of 2020, Dave chats with six hearing professionals to understand what's on their mind heading into the new year. This is part two of two. Part one (epis...

Guests: Andy Bellavia, Shari Eberts, Carl Thomas, Ryan Kraudel, Brielle Nickoloff, Scot & Susan Westwater Topic: "What are you most looking forward to in 2021 as it relates to your industry, expertise and passion?" Dave sits down with seven of his guests from the show this year to highlight what each person is most looking forward to in 2021 as it relates to their industry and expertise. This...

Guest: Andrew Song, Co-Founder and President of Whisper.ai Topic: Whisper.ai and a Novel Approach to Hearing Aids This week, Dave is joined by Andrew Song, to discuss Whisper.ai and the new approach that the San Francisco-based company is taking with its hearing aid design. Andrew shares the three-pronged approach to their design - receiver-in-the-canal hearing aid devices, the "brain" processor (...

Guests: Shawna Jackson, Clinical Audiologist at the Callier Center (Dallas); Jackie Phillips, Audiologist & Product Manager for the Otoscan at Natus Medical Topic: The Value of 3D Ear Scanners Jackie and Shawna join Dave this week to highlight an intriguing piece of technology that has recently been introduced to the audiology market: 3D ear scanners. Throughout this conversation, Shawna walks...

Guest: Richard Einhorn, Owner - Einhorn Consulting Topic: Breaking Down the Significance of the Jacoti + Qualcomm Partnership and the Consumerization of Hearing Health Functionality Richard joins Dave on this podcast this week to share his perspective of the Jacoti and Qualcomm partnership, as he has been a longtime consultant for Jacoti. With Qualcomm partnering to integrate Jacoti's hearing augm...

Guest: Bret Kinsella, Founder and CEO of Voicebot.ai  Topic: The State of Voice Technology and What Comes Next Bret joins Dave for the 50th episode of the podcast to break down the current state of voice technology, with a look toward what's on the horizon with conversational voice assistants.  The two talk through the following topics: - The current phase of voice assistants: habituatio...

Guests: Nick Hunn, CTO of WiFore Consulting and Chairman of The Bluetooth SIG Hearing Aid Working Group; Carl Thomas, Founder of Audiowings Topic: The Past, Present and Future of Hearables In a very special episode of the podcast, Nick Hunn, wireless technology analyst and Bluetooth expert, joins Dave and Carl to share his insight around what's transpired in the hearable market since it emerged ro...

Guests: Kat Penno - Audiologist & Founder of the Hearing Collective; Andy Bellavia, Director of Market Development at Knowles Corp Topic: Lifestyle Enhancement Devices Kat and Andy join Dave this week to walk through some of the most interesting hearables on the market, highlighting various features and aspects of each device that stand out.  In addition, the three talk through some of th...

Guests: Dr. Kim Cavitt, Owner of Audiology Resources; Karl Strom, Editor in Chief at the Hearing Review Topic: Exploring Where the Big Opportunities Lie for Hearing Professionals  Kim and Karl join Dave to discuss a wide variety of hearing healthcare-related topics and explore how the industry is broadly changing and what types of opportunities all of this change is generating.  Topics d...

Guests: Irina Fine & Ian Freed - cofounders of Bamboo Learning Topic: Building an EdTech Business for Alexa and Google Assistant Irina and Ian join Dave on the podcast this week to share what it's been like building a business built specifically for Alexa & Google Assistant-enabled devices. Their company, Bamboo Learning, is designed to offer children an immersive learning experience, with...

Guest: Ryan Kraudel, VP Marketing at Valencell  Topic: Breaking Down the New Apple Watch Series 6 Blood Oxygenation Sensor Ryan and Dave sit down to discuss the new flagship feature of the Apple Watch Series 6: the blood oxygenation sensor.  As an expert in biometric sensors stemming from his background at Valencell, Ryan shares how exactly this type of sensor works, why it uses red and...

Guest: Brian Roemmele, Payments Expert, Student of History, Polymath who coined the term "VoiceFirst" Topic: The Path to Contextual Voice Assistants Brian joins Dave for a marathon of an episode to discuss the trajectory of voice assistants and how we move into an era of contextually-aware voice assistants. The two cover a lot of ground with this far-reaching discussion, as Brian shares his insigh...

Guests: Dr. Cliff Olson, Audiologist and Owner of Applied Hearing Solutions; Andy Bellavia, Director of Market Development at Knowles Corp Topic: Breaking Down this Seminal Moment in Hearing Aid Innovation Cliff and Andy join Dave this week to discuss the flurry of new hearing aids that have hit the market, and speak to the broad level of tech innovation that these devices represent. The three cha...

Guest: Dr. Nick Reed, Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins School of Health. Topic: The Significance of Johns Hopkins' ACHIEVE Trial Nick joins Dave on the podcast to talk through one of the recent findings from the Lancet Commission on Dementia, which states that one of the strongest preventative actions to stunt the onset and rate of dementia is to encourage use...

Guests: Brett Bivens, Venture Investor at Tech Nexus; Ryan Kraudel, VP Marketing at Valencell  Topic: The Apple Health Blueprint Brett and Ryan join Dave to break down Apple's healthcare ambitions, honing in on what the company is building toward with its Apple Health app.  Throughout the discussion, the three chat about: - Apple Health as a broad data repository housing its own data &am...

Guests: Jason Mayer, VP Commercial Sales at Phonak; Meagan Lewis, Director of Audiology at Wake Forest Baptist Health  Topic: Leveraging Remote Audiology Services to Adapt & Thrive Meagan and Jason join Dave this week to chat about the implementation and usage of remote telehealth services in the audiology setting.  Meagan shares her own experience of incorporating remote services in...

Guest: Mark Tucker - Alexa Champion & Senior Architect, Voice Technology at Soar.com  Topic: Top 5 Takeaways from Alexa Live 2020 Mark joins Dave this week to share the five most exciting developments coming from this year's Alexa Live, which is a virtual event sharing updates about Alexa held for developers, device makers and business leaders within the Alexa ecosystem. Amazon announced...

Guest: Bruce Rasa - CEO & CoFounder of AgVoice Topic: AgVoice & Voice Technology for Agriculture and Farming Bruce joins Dave this week to share the story of AgVoice, a voice tech start up based in Atlanta that's aiming to arm our farmers with custom-built voice technology to assist in a range of different agriculture-based jobs. AgVoice works closely with a wide variety of farmers, agricu...