Branding in voice needs to be respectful of the user. The key will be to bring branding in a way that is seamless to the user experience. You need to be careful about when to do branding in voice and know where to cut off. You don’t want to interrupt in the middle of...

As part of their believe that voice is the future, Amazon is expanding their Alexa Fellowship with a Fund for Investing in Student Scientists and Entrepreneurs. Amazon is not only betting on developers, but also in the academic community, supporting researchers at top universities focused on speech and language technologies. The initiative is divided in...

 Hello, happy Monday! Welcome to VoiceFirst Weekly! What you need to know to start your week in voice: First Shortwave, Google new experiment on audio According to a release by The Verge, Google is working in an experimental podcast app called Shortwave. The app was discovered by the trademark filing which describes it as...

Hello, there! Welcome to VoiceFirst Weekly. Three or four years ago chatbots were set to be the Next Big Thing. It hasn’t been so, and according to a recent report by VentureBeat, tendency is moving towards the side of rule based chatbots, those that are build on a set of predefined rules, also referred as...

Google announced the general availability of Cloud text to speech, new audio profiles that optimize sound for playback on different devices, enhancement to multichannel recognition and more. Actually, to show you how meta we run at VoiceFirst Weekly, starting yesterday Cloud text to speech will offer multilingual access to voices generated using WaveNet, a machine...

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