Inside VOICE
This podcast is about showcasing the creative, inclusive community in voice technology with a focus on educational and innovative content. You'll hear interesting conversations with some of the top leaders in the voice tech space as well as up and coming people in voice plus, behind the scenes of VOICE events online and offline. Co- Hosted by Keri Roberts, Pete Erickson and James Poulter plus some special guests. Learn more at https://www.voicesummit.ai and send us an email at pete@modev.com.
Episodes
Paige Harkness is in charge of Partnerships & Integrations at Alkira Software in Australia. Paige talks about the voice landscape in Australia, how Alkira got started and how the voice company is helping the community come together through voice.
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Kyle Halstvedt is a Technical Program Manager and Scott Halstvedt is a Software Engineer at SoundHound. Not only do these two work together but they're brothers. They talk about some of the common elements car manufacturers need to consider when designing for voice interfaces in the car, why car manufacturers are choosing to go with a custom solution versus adding Alexa or Google into their vehicles, what kinds of things drivers an...
Katherine Prescott went to Harvard and worked in the Hedge Fund world for a long time. She talks about her journey into voice, why she chose to focus on Amazon Alexa, how she's building a community of consumers wanting to learn more about voice, what trends and questions she's getting from her community about voice, why she's also a lover of smart homes and some of her favorite Alexa skills right now.
Caitlyn Brooksby is the Executive Director of PR and Communications at Canary Speech. She talks about why Canary Speech was named one of the most promising NLP Startups of 2019, why they believe patents are important in voice, how her clients have seen results in using their company, why she feels sponsorship is important for brands and why she chose to sponsor VOICE Summit and the success it's brought her company because of it.
Derrick Johnson is the CEO of Encounter AI, a voice technology for the restaurant industry. He talks about his journey into voice and why he chose to focus on the restaurant industry, why he chose to have his startup be venture backed, why he feels it's important to niche in the voice industry, what his customers are saying about his AI and why he's part of /dev/color as well.
Maria Spyropoulou is a Speech Systems Analyst at Eckoh and has studied language and linguistics for a long time. She suggests that an IVR system is just like any other speech-enabled application and that they have a great advantage over Alexa Skills/ Google Actions. She shares with us the lessons she's learned the hard way from designing IVR systems and how it can help VUI.
Chithra Durgam has been a dentist for over 15 years, but she's also been using social media to build her practice. She talks about how she's used TikTok, how she appeared in Gary Vaynerchuck's book, how she cofounded the voice skill DentalFlashGo and what it will do for the dental community, how being in voice has changed her business and her views on how the healthcare community can use voice more in the future.
Nir Eyal is the author of two bestselling books, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life. He founded two tech companies, is an active investor in companies such as Eventbrite, Anchor, Kahoot and more and his writing has been featured in The Harvard Business Review, Time Magazine, and Psychology Today. You'll hear where his interest in psychology started from...
Colleen Fahey is the US Managing Director at Sixième Son and has had a passion for audio branding for a long time. She talks about what she noticed was happening in Europe with audio branding and why they adopted audio branding first, how an audio brand can be used, how to bring a visual brand to life via audio and how her company has helped large brands such as Huggies and Michelin.
Alison Greenberg is the CEO at aflow and started her journey as many have in this space in the creative field. She talks about why she believes most voice conversations are linear and why her company has created a circular conversational design that differentiates itself in the industry, why gender bias is something the voice community needs to be conscious of and how the voice community can represent women in a more fair and equal...
Aaron Bours is the Head of Marketing at Hyro. He talks about his journey into voice technology, his work with Google Duplex and how his company Hyro is helping the healthcare sector during COVID-19 with their voice and chat application.
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Shilp Agarwal is the Co-Founder and CEO of Blutag, a SaaS solution that enables retail companies to deliver voice apps to their customers without coding. You'll hear him talk about his journey into voice technology from ecommerce, what's it's like to own a company with your brother and why working together makes the company successful, how voice helps the retail industry and how he's helping his clients grow their business with voi...
Caitlin Gutekunst is the Senior Director of Marketing and Business Development at Creativity Inc. She recalls the first time she interacted with voice technology, the process her company takes in creating voice skills for brands such as Disney and Netflix, the difference between a one time use skill vs and an ongoing use skill and how her company markets voice skills to get people to use them.
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Harry Yeff, also known as Reeps One, is an award-winning composer, artist and one of the best beatboxers in the world. He is also currently part of the Experiments in Art and Technology program at Nokia Bell Labs. He talks about how he discovered how he could use his voice in such a wide range of ways, why he believes our voices are our most precious tool, what his experience was like with Bell Labs and what he discovered when it c...
On this special episode from a recent LIVE interview, we bring on some top experts to talk about voice security. You'll hear Uday Akkaraju the CEO at BOND.AI, Matt Vaillancourt the Director, NSP Channel Sales at SonicWall and John Iwasz the Chief Technology Officer at Whetstone Technologies, Inc. talk about how voice tech companies and anyone making their own voice skill can make them secure, how consumers can feel secure using voi...
Ricardo Garcia-Amaya, the CEO of VOIQ worked in technology for a long time and started VOIQ in 2015 where he raised a $5 Million seed round from Y Combinator and other top Silicon Valley investors. You'll hear him talk about his journey into technology, why voice innovation is helpful for businesses, what it's like to pitch to investors, the data and feedback he's received from his users, and why he founded the Top 20 Latino Tech L...
The auto industry is using voice technology in some incredible ways. Mihai Antonescu, the Product Manager at HeyMercedes Voice Assistant at Mercedes-Benz R&D North America, talks about his journey from electronic engineering and music festivals into voice technology, the type of work Mercedes-Benz is doing when it comes to creating voice experiences in the car and the feedback consumers have been providing to help Mercedes impr...
David Colleen is the CEO of Sapient X a company that is winning the competition in voice by creating more personalized experiences. He talks about why he thinks having an avatar with voice is important for the user experience, how his company is creating top notch voice experiences for companies like Volvo, LG, Mitsubishi and Future Robot, plus his advice to other voice agencies on how to lead in innovation.
Allys Parsons is a VoiceTech Recruiter & Operations Director at techire. If you're wondering how to get a job in voice tech, what recruiters are looking for, how to make your resume stand out and more, then take a listen as Allys takes us through it all.
Look for jobs here: https://techire.vincere.io/careers/
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Yüksel Tolun is a lawyer by day in Turkey, but he's also a Google Developer Expert. Listen as he talks about his passion for developing voice skills as well as teaching developers how to do the same, why he says translating emotions and feelings is imperative for voice skills, how he suggests hosting developer events and what developers should know about creating voice skills.
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