Power up your apps with cognitive services. An analysis – part 2
Amazon AWS: Amazon Machine learning services have a pricing model of pay as you use and provides the typical scalability AWS services are known for. The heaviest marketing it has is that it’s the same service that powers Alexa. Amazon Lex, for conversational interfaces and bots development automatic speech recognition (ASR) for converting speech to...
China strong stance on voice technology and conversational interfaces
Today, I want to focus on the strong stance Chinese companies have on voice technology and smart assistants and how they are driving a low cost smart assistant market. Former President of Google China, Kai-Fu Lee, said at the Disrupt 2018 conference in San Francisco this week, that his former company doesn’t have very good...
How to get your website picked up by Alexa and Siri when a person ask a question
Do you know how Alexa and Siri decides which website to pull when they are asked a question? Researches from digital strategy agency iProspect shine their opinion on how it works according to a study they conducted, The Future is voice activated. This are the items they mentioned a website should have to be chosen...
Will Voice Technology be polluted with ads
Hello, happy Sunday. Last week Ben Smith from Voice Entrepreneur asked on Instagram: Will Voice Technology be polluted with ads? My response was: Our ears are way more sensitive than our eyes. If you open lots of pages with ads today and imagine that with voice it’s unbearable. That’s why ads in voice will be...
Is voice more creative or technical
You might have heard me say that voice platforms are the platform for creatives. Then last week after Amazon announcement of 50 000 skills I did an episode basically laying out the work Amazon Alexa team is doing with its developer evangelists has being in my opinion instrumental for those numbers. So can you make...
The conversation is the voice app
I was going over Cathy Pearl post on Sample Dialogs: The Key to Creating Great Actions on Google and one part of the post, really caught my attention: With a conversational interface, the content itself is part of the structure, so design becomes even more important. The post main goal is to highlight why sample...
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