This Week In Voice

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This Week In Voice, Episode 15 Oct 20, 2017

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Editor and publisher of voice technology / AI news and commentary website Voicebot.ai Bret Kinsella is the sole guest on this week of This Week In Voice, as he and host Bradley Metrock discuss the growth of smart speaker sales in FY17, Amazon's Echo hardware being sold in Kohl's retail stores, Samsung's Bixby and Alibaba's Tmall Genie, and even a discussion on whether Apple's HomePod can be competitive in the marketplace, and Bret Kinsella's favorite thing Amazon has done in voice technology so far this year. It's a can't-miss episode. This Week In Voice is hosted by Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) and is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

This Week In Voice, Episode 14 Oct 07, 2017

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The youngest-ever guest panelist (Brendan Hersh, 16 years of age) joins the #VoiceFirst sage Brian Roemmele to discuss the latest in voice technology news, centering primarily on Google's massive announcement of several voice-first products including the Google Home Max and Google Home Mini. This Week In Voice is hosted by Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) and is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

This Week In Voice, Episode 13 Sep 29, 2017

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An all-star panel (Carrie Claiborn, Tara Kelly, Cathy Pearl) discuss the latest in voice technology news, including Amazon's blistering Seattle press event in which the company revealed numerous new Alexa-enabled products and additional news items, Google's decision to pull YouTube from the Echo Show, Google's announcement of the audiophile-friendly Google Home Max, and The VoiceFirst Roundtable's September episode featuring tech luminary Tim O'Reilly. This Week In Voice is hosted by Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) and is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

This Week In Voice, Special IAConf Edition Sep 24, 2017

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This Week In Voice traveled to the Intelligent Assistants Conference, which took place September 2017 in San Francisco, California. Put together by Opus Research, the #IAConf was a day and a half of great speakers and panels and we were able to interview several of them about current trends. Interviewees in this episode include Dan Miller, Livio Pugliese, Nandini Stocker, Mandy Chan, Mark Stephen Meadows, Andy Peart, Cathy Pearl, and Brian Roemmele. This is a special edition episode of This Week In Voice, which is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

This Week In Voice, Episode 12 Sep 22, 2017

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An all-star panel (Emily M. Bender, Karen Kaushansky, Jess Thornhill) discuss the latest in voice technology news, including Amazon's upcoming foray into #VoiceFirst Alexa-driven glasses, Voicebot.ai's Story Of The Week in which VoiceLabs reports voice apps are getting double the "retention" over nine months ago, Amazon's Fire HD 10 tablet as an "Echo Show in tablet form," Google's new Google Home Mini hitting the market on October 4, Roku's smart speaker offering heading to market, and a riveting discussion around whether developing Alexa skills is essentially working for Amazon for free. The Medium post referenced by Emily M. Bender in this episode, "Google Home vs. Alexa: Two Simple User Experience Design Gestures That Delighted A Female User," can be found here: https://medium.com/startup-grind/google-home-vs-alexa-56e26f69ac77 This Week In Voice is hosted by Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) and is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

This Week In Voice, Episode 11 Sep 15, 2017

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An all-star duo (Leor Grebler, Matt Hartman) discuss the latest in voice technology news, including insight on marketplace skepticism of Amazon's Alexa Fund, Amazon taking on Alibaba in China, Google's new marketing promotion with LG, Microsoft and Facebook teaming up to develop a new standard for machine learning, and the first VoiceBot.AI Story Of The Week in which the panel examines the state of the Alexa Skills Marketplace and the fact that 62% of the over-10,000 Alexa skills have no user reviews at all. Hosted by Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) and part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

This Week In Voice, Episode 10 Sep 08, 2017

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An all-star duo (Brian Roemmele, Bob Stolzberg) discuss the latest in voice technology news, including raucous discussions of Amazon vs Google in the realm of "voice commerce," as well as on the topic of privacy given the news that smart speakers can be invoked with "ultra sonic" sounds that are not audible to humans. Hosted by Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) and part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

This Week In Voice, Episode 9 Aug 31, 2017

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An all-star panel (Jan Konig, Michael Novak, Brian Roemmele) discuss the latest in voice technology news, including Amazon and Microsoft teaming up to allow Alexa and Cortana to interface, Amazon's promotion of Echo hardware in Whole Foods stores, the Echo's new ability to network devices together for multi-room audio, Sonos' new speaker coming out this holiday season, Google poaching a Facebook rock star developer for Google Assistant, and Amazon's de-listing of the original Echo device online in preparation for the new iteration of hardware. Hosted by Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) and part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

This Week In Voice, Episode 8 Aug 25, 2017

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An all-star duo (Mandy Chan, Brian Roemmele) discuss the latest in voice technology news, including Google and Walmart's epic partnership to challenge Amazon in the realm of #VoiceCommerce, Bixby expands to over 200 countries and territories worldwide, a new Alexa skill helps families better conserve food, Google readies AirPod competitors for the holiday season, Apple launches a new machine learning journal available to the public, and The Alexa Conference announces a new sponsor and new programming for the January 2018 summit in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Hosted by Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) and part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

This Week In Voice, Episode 7 Aug 18, 2017

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An all-star duo (Brian Roemmele, Jess Thornhill) discuss the latest in voice technology news, including Google Home's ability to make phone calls, Amazon's new SDK and expansion of monetization for developers, Cortana regrets from former Microsoft executives, the HomePod's expectation of being scarce this holiday season, CAA's entry into voice technology for big stars and media entities, and much more. Hosted by Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) and part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.

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