Conversations with Hans van Dam
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Helping brands create their own voice assistants
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Join host Hans van Dam for his conversation with Matt Buck, the banjo strummin’, guitar pickin’ CTO of Voxable, a company he founded with his wife...
Bringing Voice To The Masses
10 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Perhaps you remember that moment in the 1990s when the internet and email transitioned from things only computer science majors talked about, to thing...
AI: Make It Easier But Don’t Dumb It Down
28 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Per Ottosson is a man on a mission. As CEO of Stockholm-based Artificial Solutions, Per wants his clients to be as productive as possible in their AI ...
AI: Listening And Understanding Are Key
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Empathy is a word that gets thrown around a lot, but what do people mean when they say something like “you need to be more empathetic”? In this ep...
When It Comes To AI, Personality Is Everything
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve all engaged with a virtual assistant or chatbot that isn’t very helpful, or is even downright annoying. So how do we improve this technology...
Inbenta Uses AI To Create Meaningful Chatbot Conversations
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Online marketing, eCommerce, and call centre managers face some pretty tough challenges these days. Tasked with transforming emails and calls into web...
Former Google Conversation Designer Explores Persona, Personality in Chatbot Writing
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Conversation designer Jasper Klimbie focuses a spotlight on the incredibly wide range of backgrounds writers can bring to conversation design! Jasper ...
Converting Information Into Conversations Is The Mission At Kare
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the pre- and early Google Docs age, tech companies were focused on building platforms and developing AI. Within organizations, companies were build...
Translation, Localization, And Conversational Design In a Multilingual World
04 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Many forward-looking companies are embracing chatbots and working with skilled conversational designers to engage new markets. But global enterprises—...
The hurdles that conversation designers and developers face: client team alignment & how a conversational bot can fulfil their needs
06 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The two main challenges facing conversation designers are client team alignment and ensuring that clients have a good understanding of how a conversat...
Exploring the societal and philosophical implications of AI in the modern world
12 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sina Kahen is a voice strategist based in London and Co-Founder of TheVoiceCourse.co and Vaice. He has spent the last three years merging psychology a...
Sonic branding for voice assistants, with Diederik van Middelkoop
13 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Diederik van Middelkoop is Executive Creative Director at Amp.Amsterdam (Amsterdam, New York and Mumbai), a music agency specializing in sonic brandin...