Flash briefing 30 – Voice investments and your trash can voice commands
The voice world keep getting the monies. Bespoken announced yesterday that it raised 2.4 million dollars in seed funding round. Bespoken, a developer focused tool we featured as a voice resource a couple of weeks ago in our newsletter, allows you to test and monitor your Alexa skills. They have extensive documentation, if you are...
Flash briefing 31 – Voice terminology
Hello everyone, happy Sunday, it’s really sunny and beautiful today, I hope you are have a lovely one wherever you are listening. In this episode we give a (short) list of terms you need to understand in voice. Let’s begin with the most basic ones: Smart speakers are devices that can be commanded by voice,...
Flash briefing 32 – Throwback 10 years of the App Store and voice
Last week the App Store turned 10 years. It has generated 40 billion dollars for Apple. The day it opened it had only 500 apps. “Let me just say it: We want native third-party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers’ hands in February,” Steve Jobs wrote. Those first...
Flash briefing 33 – Prime day echo line deals
Hello there, if you live in a country with Amazon you are probably aware that’s Prime Day, an opportunity for prime users to get deals on a lot of products sell by Amazon. The bad news is that the site was down for more that 2 hours. Frustration was abundant near me with people...
Flash briefing 34 – Voice in publishing industry
Just like every other brand on the market, publishers are waking up to the reality that voice is rapidly changing the way people interact with products and services. Platforms like NYT, BBC, Reuters and Evening Standard are experimenting with the formats to understand where the audience is, the frequency in which the content needs to...
Flash briefing 35 – Monetization strategy for voice platforms
Amazon doesn’t allow for Alexa’s voice to read out ad copy and no in-conversations ads are permitted in Google Actions. The companies has not yet found a way of adding advertising without compromising the customer experience. In the case of traditional media companies as the NYT and BBC the money is not focus just yet....
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