In this episode, Roger talks with voice development expert and thought leader Allen Firstenberg.
Allen is a developer and project manager for Objective Consulting and is a Google Developer Expert (GDE) for many Google products. Allen slso co-hosts with Mark Tucker, the must listen to Two Voice Devs podcast.
Allen and Roger discuss:
- What Objective Consulting does
- Why companies should be building a voice presence now and how a voice presence can be a competitive advantage
- What is a Google Developer Expert and how one becomes a GDE? And how important developer relations and "super developers" like GDE's are to technology companies
- Allen's history of working with voice
- The promise, the success, and the failure of Google Glass and lessons learned that are relevant today
- Vodo Drive: Allen's creation which allows reading and writing to spreadsheets via voice and the promise it holds
- Voice in business
- True personalization in voice, putting the capital "A" in assistant
- The Two Voice Devs podcast
- Samsung's vision for voice and the promise it holds
- Truly contextually sensitive voice assistants and the future
- Predictions for voice in the near term and longer term
- Allen's favorite voice experiences
- . . . and much more
Links from the Show
Objective Consulting - spiders.com
Vodo Drive - vodo-drive.com
Two Voice Devs Podcast - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWYqZpPY2U_wn2P72FUpBA and
https://anchor.fm/two-voice-devs
Keeping in Touch
Allen on LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/allen-s-firstenberg-950130/
Allen on Twitter - twitter.com/afirstenberg
Host: Roger Kibbe
(@rogerkibbe) is a senior developer evangelist for Viv Labs/Samsung
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