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...

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...

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...

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.  

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...

 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...

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...