Bret Kinsella

The Voicebot Podcast

Technology EN ↓ 381 episodes

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.

Author

Bret Kinsella

Episodes

Voicebot Podcast Episode 6 - John Kelvie of Bespoken 04.09.2017 52:06

John Kelvie is a veteran of voice interaction on mobile and an early developer for voice assistants like Amazon Alexa and Google Home. Seeing a lack of sophisticated developer and monitoring tools for voice, John founded Bespoken to make voice applications easier to build, maintain and improve. His efforts have already received an endorsement from both Amazon and Google. John covers his view on vo...

Voicebot Podcast Episode 5 - Dan Whaley on Voice UX in the UK 28.08.2017 41:52

Dan Whaley talks about how Alexa development is coming along in the UK and demonstrates some Alexa skills to point out strengths and weaknesses of voice UX design.

Voicebot Podcast Episode 4 - Alexa Developer and Author Quentin Delaoutre 23.08.2017 44:24

Quentin Delaoutre is a leading Amazon Alexa Developer from France. He is the creator of Jab, the first messaging Alexa skill, the AlexaSkillsStore.com and author of Amazon Alexa Ultimate User Guide. In this interview, Quentin talks about building voice applications, why he chose to focus on messaging and some of the things he's learned along the way.

Voicebot Podcast Episode 3 - Voice UX Expert Lisa Falkson 14.08.2017 1:02:00

Lisa Falkson is the Principal Voice UX Architect at self-driving car startup NIO and also serves as an advisor to Witlingo, a voice technology design and development startup. She previously worked at Amazon's famous Lab126 as a Senior Voice User Interface Designer where she helped launch three voice enabled products in 2014, including Amazon Echo. An electrical engineer trained originally at Stanf...

Voicebot Podcast Episode 2 - Independent Developer, Nick Schwab 08.08.2017 38:30

Just as independent developers helped drive smartphone usage with apps for iOS and Android, they are also key to keeping consumers engaged on smart speakers and other voice platforms. Nick Schwab is one of the earliest developers on both the Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant platforms. His top three skills on Amazon have over 1,000 reviews when most applications struggle to receive five. And, he i...

Voicebot Podcast Episode 1 - The Upstart, SoundHound 23.07.2017 51:08

There is a lot of focus on the big voice platforms from Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Apple, but what about the independent platforms that will challenge the status quo? Voicebot sat down with SoundHound's Katie McMahon to hear about a different approach to voice engagement. Whereas the big platforms set their own rules and you are along for the ride, Hound is offering creators control over their...