Voice Summit 2 weeks ago featured a panel of investors, from the panel I gather that the investors present, mostly from the east coast, weren’t getting the leads they were expecting. There was a lot around on what they wouldn’t invest at the moment as part of the panel. One of the things that...

 If you still haven’t optimized your website for voice search, you’re losing a fair share of the online marketing potential. If that doesn’t convince you, just take a look at these voice search statistics: 325 million people are searching through the internet using voice search 20% of Google searches are done through voice search...

We will be touching on branding again today is this flash briefing, it’s an interesting subject in the state voice technology is today. I think that a lot of players right now won’t be the biggest winners later on, but, as you guys might know already, because I say it constantly, it’s really imperative to...

The news of the day yesterday was an article by the Information, echoed by Techcrunch “Surprise, no one buy things via Alexa”. According to information very few owners of Alexa devices use them for shopping. Of 50 million, reportedly only 100 000 bought something via voice interface more than once. The article goes on about...

It seems that it needs to be said and repeated. I have listened or other people have commented recently about the need to call it voice ‘and’. In one of the talks at Voice Summit about voice search, Dustin Coates mentioned the distinction between voice added vs voice-first vs voice-only. And I think that’s fine...

Why put that friend to guide your guests to their table when Alexa can do it for you? Guests at a recent Donegal wedding were treated to a taste of things to come to contemporary nuptials when Amazon’s Alexa debuted her wedding planning skills at a couple in Harvey’s Point, courtesy of one of their...

We have several big company news ending the week. Apple hit the 1 trillion valuation, whoa, this was kind of expected to happen eventually but it’s big news. WhatsApp released their business API, this is following rumors between WhatsApp founders and Facebook highest executives over the platform monetization. But what I want to concentrate today...