Flash briefing 42 – The promise of voice first for the visually or physically impaired
My family has a history with blindness or almost blindness. My uncle has been fighting a disease that he knows is gonna left him blind, soon. One of my best friend is blind. Of all our technological advantages to date, none of them have been particularly helpful for blind or physically impaired. Navigating internet...
Flash briefing 43 – Voice in medical education
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...
Flash briefing 44 – Alexa for wine
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”
Flash briefing 45 – Voice Summit wrap up
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...
Flash briefing 46 – Sneak peak to VoiceFirst Weekly tooling and processes!
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...
Flash briefing 47 Is voice about care?
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...
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