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ChatGPT and LLMs are reaching the peak of the hype cycle right now, but does that mean that it's all talk and no substance? On the contrary. Cognigy recently announced a flurry of features utilising Large Language Models in its platform with the aim of improving the AI creator and AI user experience. Cognigy CEO, Philipp Heltewig, and SVP of Business Development & Strategy, Hardy Myers, join m...

Co founder and CTO of Cohere, Nick Frosst, joins VUX World to give us a crash course on the ins and outs of Large Language Models and they can reshape enterprise customer experience. Check out https://cohere.ai Join VUX World at the EU Chatbot Summit where we’ll be hosting a full day of enterprise AI best practice content, with the likes of Vodafone, Love Holidays, LNER and many more. We have a 30...

There's a new arms race happening in the world of conversational AI platforms and technology and it revolves around who can implement the most effective use cases and features using Large Language Models. Kore.ai CEO, Raj Koneru, and CTO, Prasanna Arikala, join me on VUX World to share how Kore.ai sees the future of AI in the enterprise, thoughts on how LLMs are changing what's possible and how Ko...

Max Gladysh is the Managing Director and Co-Founder of Bots Crew. Max joins us to share some examples of how conversational AI is being used to help people in emergency situations, including use cases Max saw during covid, as well as more recently; a chatbot that helps people fleeing the war in Ukraine. Join VUX World at the EU Chatbot Summit where we’ll be hosting a full day of enterprise AI best...

Dr Joan Palmiter Bajorek is easily one of the best known people in conversational AI - for Women in Voice, for her public speaking, for her experience at the likes of Nuance, and now for her work as VP of Product Research (Data Analytics) at OneReach AI. After reading Robb Wilson's excellent book Age of Invisible Machines (Robb is the CEO of OneReach AI) I had questions about how the work of conve...

Molly Dickinson is a User Experience Lead at Expedia, and ex-Senior User Experience Designer at Home Depot. Molly has specialised in conversation design for the past 3 years and joins us share her learnings, as well as some details on the conversational AI initiatives underway at Expedia. Join VUX World at the EU Chatbot Summit where we’ll be hosting a full day of enterprise AI best practice conte...

Paulina Lewandowska is a conversation designer at Roche, a global pharmaceutical company. After a recent trial of digital humans for patient care and diagnosis, Paulina joins us to share the lessons and findings. Can digital humans improve the patient-doctor relationship? Can emotion recognition help deliver better care? What are the practical challenges and considerations for bring digital humans...

Capita is a large, UK-based BPO and professional services organisation that built its reputation and legacy supplying government technology solutions. Today, Capita is exploring conversational AI and digital humans for a range of use cases and industries. James Brooks, Innovation Principle at Capita, joins us to share more on what he and his team have learned through experimenting with conversatio...

Conversation designer Esha Metiary talks about why some bots should be prepared to discuss political matters. Can you imagine talking to a branded bot that doesn't want to discuss Black Lives Matter when the brand itself promotes those values? The bot is on the front line between customer and brand, so if the brand has those values, surely the bot should represent those values. We talk about this...

Sonia Talati is A Senior Manager for Conversation Design at GoDaddy; a speaker and ex-TV anchor with tremendous experience in conversational AI. After co-founding Hereafter, a CAI startup that helps keep the memories of loved ones alive, Sonia now heads up conversation design at the world's largest website hosting company: GoDaddy. Sonia joins us to share her experience in conversational AI, as we...

If you're a keen part of the conversational AI community, you'll likely know Jim Rowe-Bot. Jim has immense experience in designing conversational AI applications, having worked on over 300 chatbot projects. Jim Rowe-Bot joins Kane-versational AI to chat about lessons learned, best practice and the future of conversational AI. Purchase Jims ebook "How To Be a Great Conversational Designer"​ here: h...

Jason F. Gilbert (aka The BotMan) is the Lead Character Designer at Intuition Robotics. Originally a filmmaker, he's worked on loads of bots through the years for various brands on chat and voice, as well as digital humans (such as 'Anna') and now with ElliQ - a robotic companion for elderly Americans. We talked about personas, multimodality, TTS and SSML, empathetic bots like ElliQ and more... Ho...

What if you could detect the tone of voice of callers and figure out whether they're lying or telling the truth? Whether they're confident or bullsh*tting. This is voice AI taken to a new level. We're joined by Helios Life Enterprises co-founder and CEO, Sean Austin, to learn more. Join our next webinar, conversational commerce: how AI-powered digital workers can boost sales: Find out more: https:...

After founding Skilled Creative 2017, and turning it into one of the most notable voice agencies, Brandon Kaplan and his crew of emerging tech pioneers combined forces to create Journey; an innovation and design consultancy conceived to help brands envision, plan, and effectively build the next generation of fan experiences and customer journeys. Brandon joins us to share his vision for the future...

Emily Uematsu Banzhaf talks to Ben McCulloch about conversation design. Emily is a Content Designer at WillowTree, a conversation/VUI designer, she leads the ethical use taskforce at Open Voice Network, and she's also a professional violinist! We talked about personas, ethics and the sound of conversations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you're in banking and you haven't been seriously considering your conversational AI strategy, then where have you been? Yes, it's early, but the banking industry is one of the stand-out industries where conversational AI can add immeasurable benefit to your business operations and customer experience. One person who's been through the end-to-end journey of formulating the strategy, building the...

Learn how Canada’s largest bank is approaching conversational automation, as we step through the journey into creating the Scotiabank digital assistant, with Fabio Sarti, Sr. AI/ML Product Manager. Fabio joins us to share everything from use cases and channels to technical implementation to privacy and early results achieved since launching its assistant in May. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priv...

Collin Carnahan is a Senior UX Conversation Designer at Workday. Collin joins us to share how he and his team implemented conversation design systems and processes into a largely development and technically driven organisation. One of the crucial elements of getting the customer experience right with conversational applications is that they're designed right. That's not to say that technical devel...

Die hard VUX World fans will remember the episode with Vonage’s Noam Fine, discussing the then recent acquisition of Open AI by Vonage and the plans to build an AI Studio. One year, and another acquisition later (Vonage itself was recently acquired by Ericsson), and those plans have come to fruition with the recent general release of the Vonage AI Studio. In this episode, I’m joined by two of the...

As fantastic as text-based NLP systems are, you can't beat voice. There's so much data in the spoken word that businesses can use to improve their customer experience and add business value. Today, Senseforth co-founder and CEO, Shridhar Marri, joins us to shine some light on the top use cases and future of voice intelligence. Find out more about VUX @ VOICE22 presented by Kore AI: www.voicesummit...

Harshali Desai, Sr Product Marketing Manager, and Mitch Mason, Product Manager, both work on the conversational AI side of Genesys, the industry-leading CCaaS provider. Harshali and Mitch both join us to share the Genesys approach to conversation design, knowledge management, agent assist and process automation. Find out more about VUX @ VOICE22 presented by Kore AI: www.voicesummit.ai and save 20...

Conversational AI works perfectly when it's applied to conversations that are routine. Conversations that happen all the time with regularity are prime opportunities to automate because they're typically conversations that have defined outcomes. Outcomes that can get boring for a human to pursue. The drive through ordering experience is one of those scenarios. Vehicle after vehicle, having variati...

OneReach. AI featured as a Leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Conversational AI platforms this year. However, when compared to other platforms out there, there's something distinctly different about the OneReach. AI approach. Yes, there's a big focus on conversational AI technologies, however, there's just as much (if not more) focus on business process automation. The types of use...

Ever wondered why you in-car voice assistant never hears what you say? Ever caught yourself shouting into your headphones on a busy road, trying to wake up your assistant? One of the most challenging parts of voice AI is picking out voices in noisy environments. You can retrain speech recognition models using acoustic modelling and invest in beamforming microphones, but that might not be enough. T...

Peter Voss coined the term ‘AGI’ (artificial general intelligence) and is one of the best brains in the business to discuss the real potential of artificial intelligence to behave like humans. Can we build machines that can think? That are conscious? What needs to happen for us to have that ever-present AI assistant we’ve been dreaming of? The JARVIS, the Holly, the Computer, the Hal’s of the worl...