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...

 Voice Summit 2 weeks ago featured a panel of investors, from the panel I gather that the investors present, mostly from the east coast, weren’t getting the leads they were expecting. There was a lot around on what they wouldn’t invest at the moment as part of the panel. One of the things that...

 If you still haven’t optimized your website for voice search, you’re losing a fair share of the online marketing potential. If that doesn’t convince you, just take a look at these voice search statistics: 325 million people are searching through the internet using voice search 20% of Google searches are done through voice search...

We will be touching on branding again today is this flash briefing, it’s an interesting subject in the state voice technology is today. I think that a lot of players right now won’t be the biggest winners later on, but, as you guys might know already, because I say it constantly, it’s really imperative to...

The news of the day yesterday was an article by the Information, echoed by Techcrunch “Surprise, no one buy things via Alexa”. According to information very few owners of Alexa devices use them for shopping. Of 50 million, reportedly only 100 000 bought something via voice interface more than once. The article goes on about...