Flash briefing 12 – Best practices for welcoming experience in voice apps
In voice, as in life, there are not second chances to make first impressions. Particularly at this stage in a technology that has not gained all users attention. To increase engagement with your voice app – start with the welcoming experience. Voice adds a new dimension to how customers interact with your service, brand, or...
Flash briefing 13 – Google launches Podcast app or Google is becoming Apple
It’s about time that Google launched an app for podcasts in Android. The company is betting hard on AI and audio focused content and this is showing it. We already submitted our podcast and the process seems fairly straightforward. Besides the podcast RSS URL, it is required to verify ownership of the email associated with...
Flash briefing 14 – What category headings for job types is appropriate in voice technologies
Someone asked this week in the voice entrepreneur group We need category headings for job types & Skills applicable to the world of Voice Development/businesses needs. Think: Roles, Skills, Technologies. Voice is so new as a platform that we haven’t defined yet common domain for applicants and jobs. What’s so interesting and attractive to me...
Flash briefing 15 – The possibilities of voice for city governments
The city of Ozark Missouri has its own voice in Alexa. I’m gonna play near future oracle here. It seems to me that in time it makes a lot of sense that every city has a voice assistant in every main attraction area where visitors and locals can ask questions about the city and the...
Flash briefing 16 – Ok, Google cántame Las Mañanitas
Google announced that users can now query their assistant in Spanish. It was already available in the Assistant in Android phones. And now, Google Home and Google Home Mini are also available in Spanish in both Mexico and Spain. We ask it “Cual es el clima (What’s the weather)” and it replied with the weather...
Flash briefing 17 – Jurassic World interactive fiction
We played the free version of Jurassic World and it’s really good. It’s voice actors, it’s engaging, letting you feeling you’re inside a game. You are prompted fairly frequently, keeping the attention at all times, since you need to know what to answer. However for me some of the decisions felt light, it had little...
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