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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...