Voice First Health

In this episode, Teri welcomes Eric Sauvé, the Chief of Product and User Experience at Speebly.

Eric has been a serial entrepreneur for years and has started and built numerous startups, some of which were acquired by larger companies. He developed an interest in voice technology somewhere along the journey and ended up co-founding Speebly, a voice assistant program that can be used across multiple platforms.

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In this episode, Teri welcomes Heather Utzig, the Co-Founder and CEO at Pragmatic Voice, a tech innovation company that combines big data, analytics, tech & creativity to drive businesses.

Heather has an extensive background in healthcare having worked for companies like Johnson & Johnson and Eli Lilly & Co with her efforts focused on the rapid growth of their sales and sales teams. She was responsible for managing o...

In this episode, Teri welcomes Ilana Meir, a voice designer and mentor in the voice technology space. 

Ilana is a conversational interface designer and is one of the leading experts in Voice User Interface (VUI) design specifically at the intersection of voice technology and health. Using her immense knowledge and experience, she thinks critically about the future of voice design in ways only few industry experts do, a...

In this episode, Teri welcomes Dr. Bob Kolock, a retired physician, executive, and active Amazon Alexa skills developer.

Dr. Bob Kolock has over 35 years of experience in healthcare delivery. Since retirement, he has had the opportunity to spend more time on things that really interest him. That led him to begin learning JavaScript and the Amazon Alexa development process. To date, he has 5 Alexa Skills certified by Amazon. He i...

In this episode, Teri welcomes Israel Krush, the CEO and Co-Founder at Hyro, a voice platform that allows enterprises to easily add voice capabilities to their websites and mobile apps.

Israel is based in Israel, and is a former elite intelligence officer in the Israeli Defense Forces. He studied Computer Science and Statistics, has a background in machine learning. He previously worked as a software engineer for Intel and vario...

In this episode, Teri welcomes Dave Kemp, a thought leader in the intersection between voice first technology and hearables.

Dave is part of a company called Oak Tree Products and they provide medical supplies and devices to the hearing technology industry. He also has a blog called FuturEar.co where he documents the rapid technological breakthroughs that are occurring in the hearables niche, including biometric sensors and voic...

In this episode, Teri shares a recording of his recent webinar where Brian Roemmele spoke about some of his ideas and visions for what our world is going to look like using voice technology after the current Coronavirus pandemic.

Brian is the man that actually came up with the term “Voice First” and he’s often referred to as the Oracle of Voice and the Modern Day Thomas Edison. He is a scientist, researcher, analyst, c...

In this episode, Teri welcomes Dr. Randall Williams, the Co-Founder of WellSaid, to talk about the work they are doing to help people age in place with a skill called “My Day”

Dr. Williams is a serial digital health technology entrepreneur, physician, founder and CEO. He supports C-suite executives, investors, and boards seeking to refine and implement scalable and engaging healthcare products and go-to-market strategies. He is ...

In this episode, Teri will give us a preview of the Voice Technology in Healthcare book that he co-wrote with David Metcalf (PhD), Sandhya Pruthi (MD), and Harry Pappas.

Teri has made a compilation of a number of different people who contributed to the book which will be officially launched at HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society), a major medical information conference which will take place in Orlando,...

In this episode, Teri welcomes Drs. Neel Desai and Taylor Brana who wrote a chapter together in the Voice Technology in Healthcare book about medical education and how voice technology is completely changing the way that we look at education for medical trainees.

Dr. Desai has dedicated many years towards helping medical students to understand that there is so much more to medicine that just practicing natural medicine. Dr. Bran...

In this episode, Teri will share a recording of the presentation he did at Project Voice 2020.

Project Voice 2020 was a fantastic event and Teri had the opportunity to participate in a number of different talks including a workshop that he gave with his colleagues Harry Pappas, David Box, and Ilana Meir.

Key points from the Presentation!

• Teri’s ideas around what is the opportunity right now for voice technology specificall...

In this episode, Teri welcomes Sandeep Konam, the Co-Founder and CTO at Abridge, a healthcare and machine learning company.

Abridge creates AI-powered tools that empower patients to take control of their health stories. Sandeep is always excited to build products that positively impact the lives of people. He has great experience working at the intersection of machine learning and health. In the past, he has worked on enhancing ...

In this episode, Teri welcomes Rana Gujral, the CEO of Behavioral Signals, a company that allows developers to add speech emotion and behavioral recognition AI to their products.

Rana is also an entrepreneur, speaker, and investor, and has been awarded the ‘Entrepreneur of the Month’ by CIO Magazine, and the ‘US China Pioneer’ Award by IEIE. He was also listed in Inc. Magazine as an “AI Entrepreneur to Watch”. He has extensive e...

In this episode, Teri welcomes Rabbi Elijah Dordek, the founder and CEO of the ShanenLi Speech Recognition app.

Rabbi Dordek is a pioneer when it comes to voice technology and using voice applications to help people learn things. ShanenLi is an interactive tutor that helps students, young and old, to achieve literacy and master memory, using Automatic Speech Recognition. It guides users to practice reading, reciting and memorizi...

In this episode, Teri welcomes back Brian Roemmele, the “Oracle of Voice” and the “Modern Day Thomas Edison.

Brian is the consummate Renaissance man. He is a scientist, researcher, analyst, connector, thinker and doer. He is actually credited for having come up with the term “Voice First”. Over the long, winding arc of his career, Brian has built and run payments and tech businesses worked in media, including the promo...

In this episode, Teri welcomes Scot and Susan Westwater, the co-founders of Pragmatic Digital, a digital consultancy experienced in designing voice experiences. 

Scot is the Lead Strategist at Pragmatic while Susan serves as the CEO. They started the consultancy to help entrepreneurs and marketers understand the opportunity that voice represents and to help them take advantage of it.

Key points from Scot and Susan!

• De...

In this episode, Teri welcomes Monica Chaudhari, the Founder/CEO of AdirA, a Health Action Platform which helps women be the Chief Wellness Officers (CWOs) of their families and implement good health and wellness decisions for themselves and their entire families. 

Monica became a start-up entrepreneur after age 50, building AdirA for women, by women. Prior to starting AdirA, she worked all over the world for a reputed phar...

In this episode, Teri welcomes Natalia Suarez, a young UX and Voice User Experience (VUX) designer who is passionate about using voice technology to solve the issue of Dementia.

Natalia is originally from the Dominican Republic and now living in London. She is studying interactive media and is currently working on three different skills that are geared towards tackling the issue of Dementia.

Key points from Natalia!

• How to...