In this episode, Roger talks with Otto Söderlund. Otto is the CEO and co-founder of Speechly. Speechly is voice enabling mobile apps, the web, and more with its speech tools and framework.
Otto and Roger discuss:
- Our shared early computing experiences
- Otto's career path prior to Speechly
- Early experiences with voice
- The founding of Speechly
- What Speechly does and why it is different
- Speechly's tech which combines ASR and NLU to provide not only performance gains but also better understanding. Why combining these provides an advantage
- The responsibility of technologists and AI to free us from needing to learn the tech and to humanize our technology
- Speechly and eCommerce
- Multimodality
- The opportunities for voice in B2B/Business
- The huge workforce that benefits from tech but also benefits from tech getting out of the way and how voice is an enabler.
- Why the "Angry Birds" of voice is likely a business application
- The opportunities for voice
- Otto's favorite voice experience
- Otto's short terms and long term prediction. Why the voice industry will go away and that's a good thing
Links from the Show
Speechly - www.speechly.com
Speechly demo of using voice for eCommerce search - fashion.speechly.com
Getting started with Speechly - www.speechly.com/get-started
Keeping in Touch
Otto on LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/ottosoderlund
Otto on Twitter -@OttoSoderlund
Speechly on Twitter - @SpeechlyAPI
Host: Roger Kibbe
(@rogerkibbe) is a senior developer evangelist for Samsung
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