Flash briefing 24 – Is Cortana a productivity assistant or a personal one
Hello there, hope you are having a good day. Today episode is dedicated to Cortana. I know what you are thinking: one we have never even talked about Cortana and two where’s Cortana? I went ahead and looked at the list of featured skills in Cortana skills store, if store is the right word for...
Flash briefing 25 – Challenges in building voice apps
The first challenge present is always gonna be bound by the platforms where you are building your app. For Amazon Alexa, one of the most discussed limits is the 90 seconds audio before prompting the user for a choice to be made. This kind of restrictions, will affect the design of your application and are...
Flash briefing 26 – Apple AirPods are being improved
Bloomberg has recently published an article reporting some people close to Apple stated that the company is working on new AirPods with noise-cancellation and water resistance. Apple is trying to increase the range that AirPods can work away from an iPhone or iPad, one of the people said. They are not to be used for...
Flash briefing 27 – Utterance is magic
Today’s episode is different to other themes we talk here, which are more strategy driven. Today is about art, and how one artist sees speech, sound and communication. It’s a quote that stood with me, and I want to share it. I hope you enjoy it as much as we did. I like the intersection...
Flash briefing 28 – Voice is not about voice (only)
We have been waiting on the rise of bots for years now. I remember how in 2015 people were going crazy on chatbots and that it will be the “Next big thing”. Revolutions in technology are multi stepped. It has been quiet, but it’s growing. Now what happen with voice and chatbots? With aggregated together,...
Flash briefing 29 – Voice in healthcare
voicIn a recent episode we talked about coming events in voice ecosystem. One of this conference is the Voice of Healthcare Summit taking place in August. Then someone asked earlier this week for real life examples of voice applications in hospitals or medical institutions. As he didn’t specified location, the first part of my reply...
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