I met Heidi at the Voice Summit in Newark, she is the CEO of AskMarvee, an Alexa skills for elder care. Heidi gave one of the best talks that I attended in the conference. This weekend she tweeted that listening to a podcast with Brian Roemmele, about Siri shortcuts as jobs to be done, and...

Hello there, I got asked some deal on voice summit how we put our flash briefing on Google Assistant. It’s not as straightforward as in Alexa, and it require some coding, but it can be done! So today’s episode is gonna be a little meta and we are gonna talk about the tools and processes...

Hello happy Sunday, What a week this was for the voice fam. Voice Summit wrapped up on Thursday and it was an amazing experience. The talks as well as meeting the leading voices in voice, pun intended. And putting faces to the twitter handles and tweets. Let me tell you, it’s an amazing family. I...

There is gonna be a voice app for everything. Alexa has a wine skill that helps you pair wines with food. Just say  “Alexa, ask wine pairing which wine goes best with lamb”

Today’s newsletter is dedicated to voice in healthcare. This week we learned that Rockpointe is launching a medical education program on Amazon’s Alexa for doctors that they say is the first for the voice technology.   Thomas Sullivan, president of Rockpointe, said offering a continuing medical education program on Alexa provides more flexibility and easier...

In May at VoiceCon, after the closing cocktail reception, the comments I heard the most was, this wasn’t totally new. Most of what I heard today I already was aware, as we have been following the technology for a while now. Every now and then on Twitter, Facebook groups of voice applications, this comment pops...

Amazon and Microsoft called the assistants apps skills. And there’s a reason for it, the assistant is supposed to learn from the skills, be enhanced by them. Can smart speakers enhance learning and education? At Arizona State University (ASU) this fall, 1,600 Amazon Echo Dots were distributed among engineering students in the school’s Tooker House...

Alexa, Google Assistant, Bixby, Cortana are not the only smart speakers, they all have something in common: created and baked by a big company. But they are not the only assistants in the market. As conversational computing becomes more widely available, assistants that offer a different sort of vision of the future are emerging, offering...

Really just to wish you a happy Sunday and a productive week, we are today on the road to the Voice Summit in Newark, very excited, I’m anticipating this to be an awesome conference.