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Flash briefing 36 – Voice commerce in mobile

 According to a recent study conducted by audio and AI company Voysis, more than half of voice commerce is conducted on mobile phones with assistant programs like Siri or emerging platforms that are enabling audio conversions. However, the rise of mobile voice sales is also a result of retailers investing more heavily in voice-activated...

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Flash briefing 37 Don’t let your chatbot get rusty

Remember Rusty from Cars the movie? I do, I watch that movie so many times with the little ones that at some point I knew by hard almost half a movie. In Cars, Rusteeze is the brand that is sponsored by the main character and as a car, you never want to be rusty. Chatbots...

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Flash briefing 38 – In the road to Voice Summit

Really just to wish you a happy Sunday and a productive week, we are today on the road to the Voice Summit in Newark, very excited, I’m anticipating this to be an awesome conference.  

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Flash briefing 39 – Other smart assistants in the market besides Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Apple

Alexa, Google Assistant, Bixby, Cortana are not the only smart speakers, they all have something in common: created and baked by a big company. But they are not the only assistants in the market. As conversational computing becomes more widely available, assistants that offer a different sort of vision of the future are emerging, offering...

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Flash briefing 40 – Voice for learning

Amazon and Microsoft called the assistants apps skills. And there’s a reason for it, the assistant is supposed to learn from the skills, be enhanced by them. Can smart speakers enhance learning and education? At Arizona State University (ASU) this fall, 1,600 Amazon Echo Dots were distributed among engineering students in the school’s Tooker House...

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Flash briefing 41 – The next big thing in voice – a rant

In May at VoiceCon, after the closing cocktail reception, the comments I heard the most was, this wasn’t totally new. Most of what I heard today I already was aware, as we have been following the technology for a while now. Every now and then on Twitter, Facebook groups of voice applications, this comment pops...

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