Hello there. What can voice technology do in the workplace. It’s in our homes and we are finding our way to meet each other and see how we can understand and communicate so the next logical step it’s for smart assistants to move to our workplace. Forbes published an article about the 12 Exciting ways...

I like looking into trends and observing how each industry is adopting these new platforms and which industries are doing it first and which ones are just watching. As Theo Lau put it in an article published in InsurTech: For insurance industry, adopting voice technology can be viewed as a competitive advantage and an important...

We have a big announcement today. As the conversational space in AI, voice applications, and smart speakers platforms grows, the need for finding talent to build the new applications of tomorrow will only grow. Creating content for VoiceFirst Weekly makes us see a lot of job postings, and we follow communities questions and answer questions...

 “Multi -modal, multi device, context aware with voice as the first interface, this is what we understand as #VoiceFirst”. This was one of the first tweets we put out there and has become kind of our motto at VoiceFirst Labs. Conversations are not only about voice The next conversational experiences demand a screen, and...

Browsing Facebook, Roger Kibbe (voicecraft.ai), shout out to Roger, asked for voices text to speech services that have more personality. Just in yesterday’s episode about internationalization, we talked about the customization of voices in different languages and accents with Text to Speech services. But when it’s time to put real emotions it might a little...

Thank you Mathew for presenting the show today, welcome to this very special episode of VoiceFirst Weekly. Availability in different languages has been news a lot recently for the popular smart assistants During the past months availability of either Google Assistant and Alexa to different languages and regions has been constant news. The race to...

Definition time, what’s conversational AI? It’s related to systems you can interact in a conversational-like manner. It’s the need for humans and computers to interact more naturally. Even though this might look like natural progression of what we will do with our machines, this represents a major shift in computing. So the first step in...

 What are the 4 important news you need to know to start your week in voice? Amazon Alexa SDK for auto Good morning, happy Monday. I wish you all have a great and productive week ahead. Last week Amazon announced their SDK for developers to develop applications on Alexa for autos. The SDK is...

Maybe you don’t need an app to be in voice platforms, you can just repurpose your content for smart assistants platforms. This is one of the things VoiceFirst Labs does for companies, repurpose their existing content for smart speaker platforms to reach millions of users. Google actions offer a way to do just that. When...

There are a couple of things Google is adding to their Actions that are interesting: One is the upcoming App Actions that we talk last Saturday (go and listen to that one too) that will allow you to turn your Android mobile application into an Action relatively easily and the second one is the recent...