The Voicebot Podcast

Jean-Baptiste Martinoli on How to Make a Film Entirely with AI - Voicebot Podcast Ep 281

05 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jean-Baptiste Martinoli's current job title is full stack innovator. That seems about right given what he done lately with generative AI tools. One of...

Muddu Sudhakar CEO of Aisera on Conversational AI Automation - Voicebot Podcast Ep 280

27 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Muddu Sudhakar is the founding CEO of Aisera an automation software company built around conversational AI technologies. He breaks down how the compan...

Voice Summit 2022 Interviews Part 2 with Women in Voice, Skilled Creative, 169 Labs, VUX World, Attention Live, and Veritone - Voicebot Podcast Ep 279

21 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Voice summit is the largest annual gathering of conversational AI professionals. Voicebot took the opportunity to interview several industry leaders t...

Voice Summit 2022 Interviews with Veritone, Voicify, Speechly, Voice Lunch, Vixen Labs, and Modev - Voicebot Podcast Ep 278

19 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Voice summit is the largest annual gathering of conversational AI professionals. Voicebot took the opportunity to interview several industry leaders t...

Anne Spalter on Art and AI Text-to-Image Generators - Voicebot Podcast Ep 277

16 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Anne Spalter is a world-renowned artist with artwork in museums, galleries, and collections throughout the globe. She is known for having created the ...

Greg Cross from Soul Machines on Autonomous Digital Humans - Voicebot Podcast Ep 276

13 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Greg Cross, CEO and co-founder of Soul Machines recently took to the stage at the Synthedia synthetic media conference with a discussion titled: "The ...

Shiv Rao CEO of Abridge on Voice Assistants for Patients and Doctors - Voicebot Podcast Ep 275

07 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Shiv Rao is a cardiologist that co-founded Abridge in 2018 to help patients and doctors get better results from their encounters. Abridge listens to t...

Dylan Fox CEO of Assembly AI on AI Models as a Service - Voicebot Podcast Ep 274

27 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dylan Fox founded Assembly AI in 2017 and was part of the Y Combinator Accelerator that year. Prior to founding the company, Dylan was a senior softwa...

Rabi Gupta CEO of the Gift Giving Evabot - Voicebot Podcast Ep 273

22 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Rabi Gupta and his co-founder created Evabot, the gifting assistant, in 2017. The company went through the Boost VC accelerator, where he was also an ...

Nick Schwab CEO of Sleep Jar on Building a Profitable Voice App Business - Voicebot Podcast Ep 272

15 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Nick Schwab is making his record fifth appearance on the Voicebot Podcast. You can hear him previously on episodes 2, 22, 58, and 96. In fact, I recom...

Val Jones CTO of Storyfile on Conversational Video - Voicebot Podcast Ep 271

10 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Val Jones joined Storyfile as CTO in January 2021 after a leadership role at Raxium and 16 years at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies. The i...

Mark Fosdike CEO of Datch on Custom Voice Assistants for Manufacturers - Voicebot Podcast Ep 270

02 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Fosdike co-founded Datch in 2017 after spending several years as an aircraft systems design engineer at CAV aerospace. His co-founder also had ex...

Paul Cutsinger from Nvidia on Simulation, Metaverse, and Conversational AI - Voicebot Podcast Ep 269

27 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Paul Cutsinger is the director of Nvidia Omniverse Exchange, a platform for building simulation and metaverse environments. He discusses how companies...

Say It Now CEO Charles Cadbury on Actionable Voice Ads - Voicebot Podcast Ep 268

21 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Charles Cadbury breaks down how voice assistants can be used to drive awareness and sales for consumer brands. Say It Now was founded in 2018 and won ...

John Goscha CEO of Native Voice on Direct Access to Branded Voice Assistants - Voicebot Podcast Ep 267

11 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

John Goscha founded Native Voice in 2020 to enable any custom voice assistant to become a first-class citizen on any device. That means it is not behi...

Evan MacMillan CEO of Gridspace on Conversational AI Analysis - Voicebot Podcast Ep 266

06 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Evan MacMillan started Gridspace 10 years ago to tackle a tough problem faced by contact centers: analyzing their conversational data. It's an applica...

Alexa Live 2022 Recap Show with Firstenburg, Tucker, and Schwartz - Voicebot Podcast Ep 265

26 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Amazon Alexa Live event for 2022 introduced a couple of dozen new features for developers, new revenue-sharing agreements, and is ushering in a ne...

David Liu of Sonde Health on Vocal Biomarkers - Voicebot Podcast Ep 264

23 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

David Liu is CEO of Sonde Health, a company using vocal biomarkers to assess patient health, wellness, and fitness. The company is white labeling its ...

Timo Kunz on Synthetic Media and Audio as a Service - Voicebot Podcast Ep 263

17 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Timo Kunz has a PhD in operations research and spent more than a decade as a data scientist and analyst before founding Aflorithmic Labs in 2019. The ...

Kim Conti and Chen Zhang of RAIN on Custom Voice Assistants - Voicebot Podcast Ep 262

08 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Voice assistants are broadly adopted by consumers and for several consumer facing activities such as customer support. Kim Conti, vice president of pr...

The Top Voice AI Stories of the First Have of 2022 with Special Guests - Voicebot Podcast 261

02 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Topics today include Amazon's new Astro Robot in operation, the rise of voice AI in the contact center, the increase in acquisitions and large funding...

Braden Ream CEO of Voiceflow on the Shifting Voice AI Market - Voicebot Podcast Ep 260

29 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Braden Ream is CEO of Voiceflow, a leading conversational AI design collaboration solution combined with a no-code platform for deploying voice apps. ...

James Poulter CEO of Vixen Labs on Voice Assistant Consumer Data - Voicebot Podcast Ep 259

24 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

James Poulter and Vixen Labs along with the Open Voice Network and Veritone surveyed 6000 consumers in the U.S., UK, and Germany about their perceptio...

Google Assistant Retreats on Conversational Actions with Firstenberg, Tucker, and Schwartz - Voicebot Podcast Ep 258

19 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Google announced it will be sunsetting support for third-party conversational actions–the voice apps that work with Google Assistant–in June 2023....

Brandon Kaplan CEO of Skilled Creative and Co-Founder of Journey - Voicebot Podcast Ep 257

30 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Brandon Kaplan founded Skilled Creative in 2017 and continues to serve as CEO. The agency is well known for delivering voice AI strategy, solutions, a...

John Kelvie CEO of Bespoken on Improving Voice Assistant Performance - Voicebot Podcast Ep 256

25 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

John Kelvie is CEO of Bespoken, a leader in automated testing software for voice assistants. We discuss his company's journey from 2016 to 2022. And, ...

Keyvan Mohajer CEO of SoundHound on 18 Years to a Billion Dollar Voice Assistant - Voicebot Podcast Ep 255

13 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Keyvan Mohajer is CEO of SoundHound (SOUN), the creator of both a beloved music recognition mobile app and one of the most successful custom voice ass...

Dana Young CEO of AIPEX on Voice Assistants for Hospitality - Voicebot Podcast Ep 254

06 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dana Young founded AIPEX in 2017 to solve a problem he faced as an independent vacation rental property host. Voice assistants could provide his guest...

Ilya Gelfenbeyn and Kylan Gibbs of Inworld on Voice AI in the Metaverse - Voicebot Podcast Ep 253

28 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ilya Gelfenbeyn is CEO and Kylan Gibbs is chief product officer of Inworld. The company has a novel voice AI service that gives brains to in-game and ...

Raj Koneru CEO of Kore.ai on Conversational AI Today - Voicebot Podcast Ep 252

22 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Raj Koneru is the CEO of Kore.ai.  He founded the company in 2014 to tackle the need for automated interactions in messaging. That led to conversatio...

Zohaib Ahmed CEO of Resemble AI on Synthetic Voices - Voicebot Podcast Ep 251

14 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Zohaib Zohaib Ahmed co-founded Resemble AI in 2019 after working as a software engineer at high profile and innovative companies including Magic Leap,...

Alex Serduik CEO of Voice Cloning Startup Respeecher - Voicebot Podcast Ep 250

07 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Respeecher is one of the leading voice cloning solutions on the market today. It is also headquartered in Ukraine. In my recent update with Alex Serdi...

Chris Maeda CTO of Botco on Bots and eCommerce - Voicebot Podcast Ep 249

31 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chris Maeda has an undergraduate degree in computer science from MIT and a PhD from Carnegie Mellon. He was hacking LISP machines in the late 1980s in...

Chris Ume Co Founder of Metaphysic.ai and Creator of Deep Tom Cruise - Voicebot Podcast Ep 248

25 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chris Ume is a visual effects expert with many years experience in entertainment and corporate projects. In 2020, he began experimenting with deep fak...

Max Child CEO of Volley on Voice Games and the Matchbox Acquisition - Ep 247

13 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Max Child makes his third appearance on the Voicebot Podcast to discuss the evolution of the voice games market as well as Volley's recent acquisition...

Kundan Kumar Head of AI at Descript - Voicebot Podcast Ep 246

05 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Kunden Kumar is head of AI at Descript. He was a co-founder of the innovative synthetic speech company Lyrebird which Descript acquired in 2019.  He ...

Alex Quinn CEO of Disruptel Is Creating a Voice Assistant with Eyes - Voicebot Podcast Ep 245

28 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Alex Quinn founded Disruptel while still in high school and the team just landed a big deal with the world's fourth-largest television maker. He says ...

Voice AI Predictions 2022 with 6 More Industry Leaders – Voicebot Podcast Ep 244

25 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Six industry leaders join with Voicebot's Bret Kinsella to discuss 2022 voice AI predictions, barriers to adoption, and top developments in the indust...

Voice AI 2022 Predictions and Barriers Part 1 - Voicebot Podcast Ep 243

11 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Seven industry leaders join with Voicebot's Bret Kinsella to discuss 2022 voice AI predictions, barriers to adoption, and top developments in the indu...

Healthcare Voice Assistant Trends and Data Deep Dive - Voicebot Podcast Ep 242

24 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today we break down key findings from the Healthcare Voice Assistant Consumer Adoption Report for 2022. The data includes 2019 - 2021 trends and analy...

Voice Shopping Data Deep Dive - Voicebot Podcast Ep 241

19 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today's episode breaks down some of the key findings from the Voice Shopping Consumer Adoption Report for 2021. Data presented goes back to 2018 and s...

Voice Year in Review 2021 The Consumer Edition - Voicebot Podcast 240

07 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This is the U.S. edition and the Consumer edition of our two-part year in review episodes. We discuss the industry globally from a U.S. perspective wi...

Voice Year in Review 2021 The Enterprise Edition - Voicebot Podcast Ep 239

27 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week we discuss voice year in review for 2021. All of the guests in this episode are based in Europe but operate globally so you will get both pe...

Jon Stine Founder and Executive Director of the Open Voice Network - Voicebot Podcast Ep 238

23 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jon Stine is the Executive Director and founder of the Open Voice Network. Prior to founding OVN, Stine was global director of retail sales at Intel a...

Raghu Ravinutala CEO of Yellow AI - Voicebot Podcast Ep 237

15 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Raghu Ravinutala co-founded Yellow.ai in 2015 to solve a problem he personally had encountered, poor customer support experiences. A former IC chip de...

Vinay Shukla CEO of ConverseNow on Voice Assistants for Restaurants - Voicebot Podcast Ep 236

02 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Vinay Shukla is CEO and co-founder of ConverseNow and the former founder and President of Endeavour Software. Endeavour was acquired by Genpact in 201...

Roger Kibbe on the Evolution of Samsung Bixby and Voice Assistants - Voicebot Podcast Ep 235

21 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Roger Kibbe is Senior Developer Evangelist at Viv Labs which is the home of Bixby in Samsung Research Americas. Today, we discuss the evolution of Bix...

Talkatoo CEO Shawn Wilkie on Voice for Veterinarians - Voicebot Podcast Ep 234

08 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Shawn Wilkie is CEO of Talkatoo. A cross-platform speech-to-text solution for Veterinarians. It streamlines patient data input and works across multip...

Conversational AI at Pepsico with Elena Parlatore - Voicebot Podcast Ep 233

04 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Elena Parlatore is the senior director of global digital consumer experience at Pepsico. Her role in the consumer insights group focuses on all of the...

Rob Carpenter CEO of Valyant on Voice in the Drive Through - Voicebot Podcast Ep 232

31 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Rob Carpenter founded Valyant in 2017 with a specific focus on developing a voice assistant drive-through solution for fast food restaurants. While Ca...

Edward Saatchi Founder of Fable Studio on Creating Virtual Beings - Voicebot Podcast Ep 231

21 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Edward Saatchi is the founder of Fable Studio which is bringing AR and VR characters to life for the metaverse. Fable is creating both characters and ...

Greg Cross Co-founder of Soul Machines on Virtual Humans and Interactive Animation - Voicebot Podcast Ep 230

11 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Greg Cross is co-founder and chief business officer of Soul Machines, a leader in the creation of virtual humans (aka digital people). We discuss the ...

Amazon Product Launch Event 2021 Hot Takes from Voice Industry Leaders - Voicebot Podcast Ep 229

01 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Amazon just announced a custom voice assistant deal with Disney and a bushel full of new products including a smart display you hang on the wall and a...

Hannes Heikinheimo Co-founder and CTO at Speechly - Voicebot Podcast Ep 228

28 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hannes Heikinheimo co-founded Speechly in 2016 with the vision to create a low-latency, real-time streaming speech recognition API. Today, Speechly of...

Daniel Kornev Chief Product Officer at DeepPavlov - Voicebot Podcast Ep 227

20 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Daniel Kornev is chief product officer for DeepPavlov.ai which is the developer behind the open source framework for building voice assistants. The co...

Andy Mauro CEO of Automat on Conversational Commerce - Voicebot Podcast Ep 226

13 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Andy Mauro is the CEO of Automat which he co-founded in 2016. Its solution creates personalized shopping experiences for eCommerce that learns the nee...

Professor Jan Sedivy on Winning the Alexa Prize SocialBot Challenge and 40 Years in Voice Tech - Voicebot Podcast Ep 225

06 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jan Sedivy is a Researcher at the Institute of Cybernetics and Robotics at the Czech Technical University (CTU) and a member of the faculty of electri...

Trends for Voice Assistants Use in the Car 2021 - Voicebot Podcast Ep 224

30 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Voice assistants are used across many devices and in many different contexts. The car is what we characterize as among the big 3 along with smart spea...

Ryan Star CEO of Stationhead on Social Audio and the Evolution of Media Creators - Voicebot Podcast Ep 223

23 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan Star is CEO and founder of Stationhead, a social audio app that enables anyone to start their own social, global radio program. He is a recording...

Ryan Steelberg President of Vertione on AI Applications that Mine Unstructured Data - Voicebot Podcast Ep 222

17 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan Steelberg is President of Veritone. He co-founded the company with his brother in 2014 and it became publicly traded on NASDAQ in 2017. Ryan has ...

Bernadette Nixon CEO of Algolia the Unicorn Search and AI Company - Voicebot Podcast Ep 221

10 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Bernadette Nixon is CEO of Algolia, a company that processes more than 1.5 trillion searches per year for over 10,000 customers. She joined the compan...

Conversations with Things Authors Diana Deibel and Rebecca Evanhoe - Voicebot Podcast Ep 220

07 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Conversation designers Diana Deibel and Rebecca Evanhoe discuss the practical knowledge required to design effective conversations with things such as...

Natalie Monbiot of Hour One on Virtual Humans Automated Video Production and More - Voicebot Podcast Ep 219

25 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Natalie Monbiot is head of strategy and business development for Hour One. She is working with companies across a number of industries as varied as re...

Yakir Buskilla CEO of CoCoHub Talks Chatbots and Virtual Humans - Voicebot Podcast Ep 218

22 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Yakir Buskilla is CEO and co-founder of Cocohub, a publicly traded company on the Israeli stock exchange best known for its no-code chatbot developmen...

Orchid Bertelsen Head of Digital at Nestle Talks Virtual Humans and Alexa Projects - Voicebot Podcast Ep 217

12 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Orchid Bertelsen is head of digital strategy and innovation at Nestle USA. She has created the digital innovation road maps for over 40 Nestle brands ...

Brandon Kaplan CEO of Skilled Creative Discusses the Rise of Voice in Media and Commerce - Voicebot Podcast Ep 216

05 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Brandon Kaplan is CEO of Skilled Creative, an agency he founded in 2017 that focuses on helping leading media and consumer brands deploy voice technol...

Dr Joan Palmiter Bajorek Founder of Women in Voice - Voicebot Podcast Ep 215

28 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Joan Palmiter Bajorek is founder and CEO of the non-profit Women in Voice which was started in 2018. She is an advisor to several companies in the...

Brad Stone Author of Amazon Unbound - Voicebot Podcast Ep 214

20 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Brad Stone is the New York Times bestselling author of two books about Amazon, The Everything Store and Amazon Unbound. Together, they tell a complete...

Joseph Turow Author of Voice Catchers on Voice Tech, Marketing and Privacy - Voicebot Podcast 213

15 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Joseph Turow is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication -- the same school where he earned his PhD. Turow i...

Ian Freed CEO of Bamboo Learning and Head of Amazon Devices When Alexa Launched - Voicebot Podcast Ep 212

07 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ian Freed is co-founder and CEO of Bamboo Learning, the creators of award-winning Alexa skills for childhood education. As you know, 2020 changed ever...

Danny Tomsett CEO of UneeQ Talks Virtual Humans - Voicebot Podcast Ep 211

31 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Danny Tomsett is the founder and CEO of UneeQ. He founded the company in 2009. It was originally called FaceMe and was focused on video chat with huma...

Lauren Kunze CEO of Pandorabots on Chatbots and Virtual Humans - Voicebot Podcast Ep 210

24 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Lauren Kunze became CEO of Pandorabots in 2013. However, her involvement with the company goes back to 2002. As a teenager she developed one of the fi...

Rob Hayes Head of Product at Voiceflow Talks Conversation Experience Design - Voicebot Podcast Ep 209

17 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Rob Hayes is head of product at Voiceflow. He spent the past 18 months helping transform the no-code builder for Alexa skills into a multi-platform de...

Audioburst Co-founders Amir Hirsh and Gal Klein - Voicebot Podcast Ep 208

12 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Amir Hirsh (CEO) and Gal Klein (CTO) are co-founders of Audioburst. We gathered in Clubhouse to discuss analyzing, segmenting, packaging and making ta...

Spotify Voice AI and Social Audio Strategy with Messina, Kemp, Schwartz and Greenberg - Voicebot Podcast Ep 207

05 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Spotify recently released a custom voice assistant called 'Hey Spotify,' acquired (then rebranded) Locker Room as the foundation of a new social audio...

Dr. Patricia Scanlon of SoapBox Labs Talks Voice AI and Education - Voicebot Podcast Ep 206

26 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Patricia Scanlon is CEO and co-founder of SoapBox Labs, the leading company focused on voice recognition technology for children. Most voice recog...

Nuance Acquired by Microsoft: Breaking Down the $20B Deal - Voicebot Podcast Ep 205

17 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Microsoft announced a $20 billion acquisition of Nuance this past week and Voicebot invited four experts in the field to help break down why the deal ...

Voice Games with Doppio, Drive.fm, Matchbox.io, and Volley - Voicebot Podcast Ep 204

11 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Today, we talk voice-first games, other interactive audio content, and creating voice experiences for the smart speaker, smartphone, and in the car. O...

Per Ottosson CEO of Artificial Solutions - Voicebot Podcast Ep 203

05 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Per Ottosson is CEO of Artificial Solutions, the Sweden-based maker of Teneo software used for building custom chatbots, virtual assistants, and conve...

Brian Crannell SVP of Knowles on Tiny Speakers and MEMs Mics - Voicebot Podcast Ep 202

28 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Tiny microphones and speakers are key enablers of the voice assistant revolution. From smart speakers to smart wireless earbuds (hearables), the audio...

Bahubali Shete CEO of TinyChef on His Journey to 1M Voice App Users and New Voice Commerce Features on Alexa - Voicebot Podcast Ep 201

21 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Bahubali Shete founded TinyChef in 2016 (originally known as Klovechef) as an IoT-plus-voice interactive cooking experience and pivoted to an ML-based...

Aakrit Vaish CEO of Haptik - Voicebot Podcast 200

14 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Aakrit Vaish is CEO and co-founder of Haptik an enterprise SaaS solution for building conversational AI-based intelligent assistants. The company's cl...

3 More Clubhouse Power Users Offer Social Audio Insights with Mitch Joel, Kate O'Neill, and Teri Fisher - Voicebot Podcast Ep 199

13 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Three guests join to share their social audio insights, how Clubhouse is evolving and approaches for using the social network.  Mitch Joel (4:02) is...

How to Use Clubhouse with Monique Howard, Tyler Crowley, and Adriana Freitas - Voicebot Podcast Ep 198

08 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Three guests today share their Clubhouse experience and offer several strategies on how to get the most out of the new social audio network. Perspecti...

Ilya Gelfenbeyn, Founding CEO of API.ai (Acquired by Google and Now Dialogflow) - Voicebot Podcast Ep 197

01 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ilya Gelfenbeyn was the founding CEO of API.ai. He and his team were true pioneers in the voice AI industry and were rewarded for those efforts throug...

Clubhouse Analysis with Power Users Balaji, LGO, and Soccolich - Voicebot Podcast Ep 196

26 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Today we interview three active users of Clubhouse in our series around the rise of social audio. Vajresh Balaji is first with his analysis of total C...

Jeremiah Owyang Analyzes the Rise of Social Audio on Clubhouse, Twitter and More - Voicebot Podcast 195

21 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jeremiah Owyang is tech analyst that is closely tracking the rise of social audio networks. In this week's interview, we discuss Clubhouse, Twitter Sp...

Rachael Tatman PhD Linguist and Rasa Senior Developer Advocate - Voicebot Podcast Ep 194

15 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Rachael Tatman has a PhD in linguistics from the University of Washington and began testing voice assistant speech recognition systems like Amazon Ale...

Vijay Balasubramaniyan CEO of Pindrop on Voice Identification Use Cases - Voicebot Podcast Ep 193

12 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Vijay Balasubramaniyan is CEO of Pindrop, a leader in voice authentication technology for call centers. The interview was conducted on Clubhouse to di...

Conversation Design Institute co-founder and CEO Hans van Dam - Voicebot Podcast Ep 192

07 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hans van Dam began his career as a copywriter for science and technology companies and that role led him to become a chatbot designer in 2014. His exp...

Rohit Prasad Amazon VP and Head Scientist for Alexa AI - Voicebot Podcast Ep 191

01 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Rohit Prasad is vice president and head scientist of Alexa AI at Amazon. He joined the Alexa team pre-launch in 2013 as director of machine learning b...

Cheryl Platz Author of Design Beyond Devices on Multimodal Voice UX - Voicebot Podcast Ep 190

24 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Cheryl Platz is the author of the new book "Design Beyond Devices, creating multimodal cross-device experiences" published by Rosenfeld. Platz is curr...

2021 Voice AI Predictions Part 2 with Paquiot, Kibbe, Palmiter-Bajorek, and Kemp - Voicebot Podcast Ep 189

20 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Here is Part 2 of our 2021 voice AI predictions. On January 1st, we published over 100 predictions from 50 industry leaders. Today, we go deeper with ...

2021 Voice AI Predictions Part 1 with Thadani, Tingiris, Stapleton, and Fields - Voicebot Podcast Ep 188

18 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

On January 1st, we published over 100 predictions from 50 industry leaders. We go a little deeper with four guests today that elaborate on their think...

India 2020 Voice AI Year in Review with Haptik, Slang Labs, Klove Chef, and Women in Voice - Voicebot Podcast Ep 187

10 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Today, we have one last Voice AI Year in Review episode. This one is focused on what went down in India in 2020. Today's guests are some of the top Vo...

Joe Petro CTO and EVP of R&D at Nuance - Voicebot Podcast Ep 186

04 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Joe Petro is CTO and EVP of R&D for Nuance and has been with the company since 2009. Nuance is a voice giant doing $1.5 billion in annual revenue and ...

Voice AI in Europe Year-in-Review 2020 with 169 Labs, Soapbox Labs, and Voxalyze - Voicebot Podcast Ep 185

29 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Today we talk about voice AI adoption and trends in Europe for 2020. My guests include Niamh Bushnell, chief communications officer of Soapbox Labs, D...

Voice Developer Year in Review 2020 with Dabble Lab, Rumble Studio, and XAPPmedia - Voicebot Podcast Ep 184

24 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

For 2020, we decided to have a voice developer-specific year-in-review episode to make sure we spent sufficient time focused on the events that were t...

Voice AI 2020 Year in Review with Botmock, Matchbox.io, and Willowtree - Voicebot Podcast Ep 183

20 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This is Voicebot Podcast's fourth annual year-in-review episode. We discuss the year's top stories ranging from COVID, contact centers, and custom ass...

Igor Jablokov CEO of Pryon on Custom Voice Assistants for the Enterprise - Voicebot Podcast Ep 182

13 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Igor Jablokov is the founder and CEO of Pryon, a company that has set out to transform knowledge management in the enterprise with a self-training cus...