The Voicebot Podcast

James Chapman VP and GM of Music and Wearables at Qualcomm - Voicebot Podcast Ep 181

07 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

James Chapman is VP and GM of music and wearables at Qualcomm, which means he oversees both hearables and smart watches. Qualcomm is a driving force b...

Tom Livne CEO of Verbit on Automated Transcription and a $60M Funding Round - Voicebot Podcast Ep 180

29 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Verbit just closed a $60M funding round after raising $30M earlier this year and $21M in 2019. We break down the company's AI-plus-human automated tra...

Dennis Crowley Co-founder of Foursquare and Creator of Marsbot - Voicebot Podcast Ep 179

23 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dennis Crowley is co-founder and executive chairman of Foursquare, a pioneer in the rise of the mobile, local, and social apps famous for pioneering t...

Kane Simms Co-Founder of VUX World on Voice Strategy, User Experience, and Industry Trends - Voicebot Podcast Ep. 178

16 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Kane Simms is co-founder of VUX World, a voice studio, design consultancy, and creator of a popular industry podcast and numerous LinkedIn videos. Tod...

Dr Ben Goertzel CEO of SingularityNET and a Leader in Research for Artificial General Intelligence - Voicebot Podcast Ep 177

09 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Ben Goertzel is co-founder and CEO of SingularityNet, an open, decentralized platform for connecting and orchestrating interactions between artifi...

David Patterson Chief Science Officer of Aiqudo Discusses NLU and Semiotics - Voicebot Podcast Ep 176

31 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Dave Patterson earned a PhD in artificial intelligence at Ulster University where he also led an AI research lab. He also has degrees in computer ...

Stanford Professor Monica Lam on the Almond Open Source Voice Assistant - Voicebot Podcast Ep 175

24 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Monica Lam joined Stanford University's computer science department in 1988 after earning a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University. She is co-author ...

Phillip Hunter Formerly of the Amazon Alexa UX Team and Founder of CCAI - Voicebot Podcast Ep 174

18 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Phillip Hunter is the founder of CCAI Services where he helps companies develop voice user experiences using conversation AI and ML solutions. He prev...

Dr. Joan Palmiter Bajorek CEO of Women in Voice on Voice UX, Linguistics, and Building Community and Opportunity - Voicebot Podcast Ep 173

11 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Joan Palmiter Bajorek is CEO of Women in Voice an organization she founded in 2018. It has grown to 15 chapters in nine countries and has hosted o...

Two Voice Devs Mark Tucker and Allen Firstenberg Talk Alexa, Google Assistant, and More - Voicebot Podcast Ep 172

02 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

My guests today are long-time voice developers and well know leaders in the developer community. Mark Tucker is senior architect for voice technology ...

Google Product Launch Hot Takes with Jefferson Graham of USA Today and Eric Schwartz of Voicebot - Voicebot Podcast Ep 171

02 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Today I have another extra episode for you to discuss the announcements from Google's 2020 Fall product launch. We knew in advance that we would final...

Amazon Product Launch Event Hot Takes with CNET, Voicebrew, and USA Today - Voicebot Podcast Ep 170

28 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Today's episode is all about Amazon's big 2020 product launch event. We break down what was announced, what will be successful, and what it says about...

Alexa 2020 Product Launch Preview with Jefferson Graham of USA Today - Voicebot Podcast Ep 169

21 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Amazon's 2020 product launch is coming up in a few days so Jefferson Graham of USA Today joins me for a preview of what to expect from Amazon during t...

James Vlahos of Hereafter AI Discusses Avatars That Preserve the Memories and Thoughts of Real People - Voicebot Podcast Ep 168

20 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

James Vlahos is the founder of Hereafter AI, a company that enables anyone to create a chatbot avatar of a real person. James' interest in chatbots st...

TalkSocket Co-Founders Andrew Delorenzo and Chandler Murch - Voicebot Podcast Ep 167

13 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

TalkSocket just launched a Kickstarter for a physical product that makes Alexa (and other voice assistants) instantly accessible hands-free on any iPh...

Ian Bicking Talks Firefox Voice and Observations About Assistants Today - Voicebot Podcast Ep 166

06 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ian Bicking spent 10 years at Mozilla as a software developer, engineering manager, and research engineer. His last project there was Firefox Voice, a...

Richard Weeks Head of Conversational Experiences at US Bank - Voicebot Podcast Ep 165

30 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Richard Weeks is head of conversational experiences at U.S. Bank. The company has an Alexa Skill, Google Action, chatbot, and a newly minted custom as...

Jeanine Heck VP of AI Products at Comcast - Voicebot Podcast Ep 164

24 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jeanine Heck is vice president of AI product at Comcast, the top cable television provider in the U.S. with over 20 million subscribers for its Xfinit...

Dor Skuler Co-Founder and CEO of Intuition Robotics - Voicebot Podcast Ep 163

17 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dor Skuler is CEO and co-founder of Initiation Robotics. He is a former board director for ClearPath Networks, Senior Vice President at Alcatel-Lucent...

Top Voice AI Stories in the First Half of 2020 with Lau, Prescott and König - Voicebot Podcast Ep 162

07 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week's roundtable discussion focuses on the top voice AI news from the first half of 2020. We, of course, talk about COVID-19 and how that is cha...

Harjinder Sandhu Founder and CEO of Saykara a Voice Assistant for Doctors - Voicebot Podcast Ep 161

02 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Harjinder Sandhu founded Saykara in 2015 but his journey into healthcare and voice began in 2000 when he founded Medremote which used speech recogniti...

Todd Mozer CEO of Sensory Talks Custom Assistants - Voicebot Podcast Ep 160

27 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Todd Mozer is founder, Chairman, and CEO of Sensory. The company has provided voice and AI technology for 3 billion devices over 25 years. Sensory's t...

Peter Durlach SVP of Healthcare Strategy at Nuance - Voicebot Podcast Ep 159

20 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Peter Durlach started out in Audiology technology in the 1980s and then quickly transitioned to speech technology in 1988 at Articulate Systems which ...

Scott Stephenson CEO and Cofounder of Deepgram - Voicebot Podcast Ep 158

13 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Scott Stephenson is cofounder and CEO  of Deepgram. He earned a PhD in particle physics at the University of Michigan with a focus on Machine Learnin...

Alan Nichol CTO and Co-founder of Rasa - Voicebot Podcast Ep 157

05 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Alan Nichol co-founded Rasa in December 2016. Rasa began life as an open source NLU for chatbots and has expanded to other features, including voice i...

Punit Soni Founder and CEO of Suki the Voice Assistant for Healthcare - Voicebot Podcast Ep 156

28 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Punit Soni is founder and CEO of Suki. The company provides a specialty voice assistant for doctors and other clinicians and he elaborates how its fea...

Mike Zagorsek of SoundHound Discusses What it Takes to Deploy a Custom Voice Assistant - Voicebot Podcast Ep 155

21 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Mike Zagorsek is vice president of product marketing at SoundHound. Prior to SoundHound, Zagorsek was head of product marketing at Square and Leap Mot...

Hey Swisscom Custom Voice Assistant Launch Journey with Riccardo Lopetrone and Misha Zivkovic - Voicebot Podcast 154

15 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Voice at Swisscom began in 2015 with a voice interactive TV remote. The voice assistant Hey Swisscom emerged five years later in November 2019. Misha ...

BBC Head of Voice and AI Andy Webb Discusses the Custom Voice Assistant Beeb - Voicebot Podcast Ep 153

07 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Andy Webb is head of product for voice and AI at BBC Worldwide as VP of Product Strategy. BBC has been a pioneer in supporting consumer assistants glo...

Alan AI CEO Ramu Sunkara Talks Voice Assistants for Enterprise Apps - Voicebot Podcast Ep 152

31 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

My guest today is Ramu Sunkara, co-founder and CEO of Alan AI. In 2014, Ramu co-founded a company called Synqq which was a voice assistant for meeting...

Specialty and Custom Voice Assistant Design with VUI Agency's Esslinger, Hassan, and Baumeister - Voicebot Podcast Ep 151

24 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Over the past few weeks, I have brought in executives from three companies with specialty assistants that have shown early promise: Deutsche Telekom, ...

Brendan Roberts Founder and CEO of Aider Discusses Specialty Assistants for Small Business - Voicebot Podcast Ep 150

17 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Brendan Roberts founded Aider in 2017 after more than 15 years helping small businesses with their communications and IT needs. Roberts hacked togethe...

Alex Capecelatro CEO of Josh AI Talks Specialty Independent Assistants for the Home - Voicebot Podcast Ep 149

10 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Alex Capecelatro and his co-founder started Josh.ai in 2015 though the technology development preceded that by almost five years. Josh.ai is solely fo...

Reghu Thanumalayan of Deutsche Telekom Talks Hallo Magenta and Independent Voice Assistants - Voicebot Podcast Ep 148

03 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

You know about Amazon Alexa, Apple Siri, and Google Assistant. What about the German alternative from Deutsche Telekom, Hallo Magenta? You are going t...

Ron Jaworski CEO of Trinity Audio on the Rise of Audio Content in the Voice Era - Voicebot Podcast Ep 147

27 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

As we shift into an era of voice there is an open question about where we will get all that content required for audio responses to voice queries. Tri...

Jeferson Valadares CEO of Doppio Games Talks Voice Interactive Games - Voicebot Podcast Ep 146

19 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Many people have been stuck inside for the past several weeks and some are trying out voice games to pass the time or just explore the latest developm...

Vocalis Health CEO Tal Wenderow on Vocal Biomarkers, Healthcare, and Coronavirus - Voicebot Podcast Ep 145

12 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Tal Wanderow is CEO of Vocalis. He and host Bret Kinsella discuss the latest progress behind employing vocal biomarkers to evaluate health conditions ...

Voice Assistant Adoption in the Car Data Review with Cerence CEO Sanjay Dhawan - Voicebot Podcast Ep 144

06 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The topic today is voice assistant adoption in the car. It is rising quickly according to data from a recent report by Voicebot. My guest to discuss t...

Meredith, Media, and Voice with Rachel Reed - Voicebot Podcast Ep 143

29 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Meredith is a media powerhouse that reaches over 180 million people with some of the top brands in publishing including People Magazine, Allrecipes, E...

Coronavirus, Tech and Voice with Recode, CNET and Strategy Analytics - Voicebot Podcast Ep 142

22 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Pandemics have broad impact and the voice industry is no exception to the ripple effects of the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. Today's discussion focu...

Coronavirus Impact on Voice Industry Events with Erickson and Metrock - Voicebot Podcast Ep 141

12 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Coronavirus COVID-19 is now officially a global pandemic but it has been impacting events where the voice industry has a prominent role for nearly a m...

Michal Stanislawek CEO of Utter One Shares His Journey on Voice Platforms with Media, Games, and Monetization - Voicebot Podcast Ep 140

07 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Michal Stanislawek has nearly 20 years of experience in broadcast and online media. He co-founded Utter One in 2019 and quickly launched one of the mo...

Ben Sauer Talks Voice UX in Healthcare and Other Use Cases - Voicebot Podcast Ep 139

02 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ben Sauer is a designer with deep experience as a practitioner, trainer, and theorist around conversational design. He recently left a role as a produ...

Chris Sheldrick CEO of What3Words - Voicebot Podcast Ep 138

24 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What3Words is a global address system that has assigned three-word labels to all of the 57 million 3-meter squares that make up the surface of the ear...

David Cannington Co-founder of Nuheara on Shaping the Hearables Market - Voicebot Podcast 137

16 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

David Cannington is co-founder of Nuheara, a pioneer in the hearables, wireless earbuds market. Nuheara was founded in 2015 in Perth, Australia and de...

Voice UX Today with Cathy Pearl of Google and Adva Levin from Pretzel Labs - Voicebot Podcast Ep 136

09 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

My two guests today are widely sought after experts in voice user experience design. After more than 20 years designing voice user interfaces, Cathy P...

Voice Assistants in Healthcare with Nate Treloar and Teri Fisher - Voicebot Podcast Ep 135.mp3

02 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Today, we have an in-depth discussion about voice technology adoption in healthcare, what some trials of new applications are showing, and where we ar...

The NFL and Voice with Ian Campbell and John Gillilan - Voicebot Podcast Ep 134

26 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The National Football League (NFL) in the U.S. is the top sports league by revenue globally. It is also a media powerhouse that has been experimenting...

Mayo Clinic Discusses Voice Initiatives for Healthcare - Voicebot Podcast Ep 133

20 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Healthcare will be a big adopter of voice technology and voice assistants. Mayo Clinic is out front innovating around new and intriguing use cases whi...

CES 2020 Interviews with Audioburst, Nuheara, NPR and More - Voicebot Podcast Ep 132

13 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We have 10 interviews from the floor of CES 2020 offering the latest insights on voice assistants, voice services, and what to expect over the next ye...

2020 Voice AI Predictions Part 2 on Voice App Architecture with Kelvie, McElreath and Ream - Voicebot Podcast Ep 131

06 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

As promised, today I have part 2 of our 2020 predictions shows. Today, we take a deep dive into multiple conversations about voice app architecture. ...

2020 Voice AI Predictions Part 1 with Ware, Bass, and Lens-FitzGerald - Voicebot Podcast Ep 130

04 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Today we have part 1 of a two-part series on 2020 predictions with guests from Australia, the UK, and Holland.   I want to give a shoutout to all of ...

Patricia Scanlon CEO of Soapbox Labs - Voicebot Podcast Ep 129

27 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Patricia Scanlon is CEO and founder of Soapbox Labs, the leader in automated speech recognition for kids. You may have observed a child attempting to ...

2019 Voice Year in Review with Jargon, Voxly, and Voicebot - Voicebot Podcast Ep 128

22 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

2019 started out with unbounded optimism around voice technology with rapid smart speaker adoption and Google announcing over 1 billion devices suppor...

Hearables and Voice with Dave Kemp and Andy Bellavia - Voicebot Podcast Ep 127

16 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

What are hearables? They are wireless earbuds and headphones that provide always-available voice assistant access. Think AirPods, Pixel Buds, Echo Bud...

The Privacy and Security Episode with Molla, Mozer and Lens-FitzGerald - Voicebot Podcast Ep 126

09 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Privacy and security issues associated with voice assistants have been the biggest stories in the industry so far in 2019. Joining host Bret Kinsella ...

Jeff McMahon Voicify CEO on Voice and the Martech Stack - Voicebot Podcast Ep 125

01 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Jeff McMahon is CEO and co-founder of Voicify a voice app development platform designed for enterprise marketers. After a career in digital marketing ...

Tom Hewitson CEO of Labworks Shares 10 Hot Takes from 2.5 Years in Voice - Voicebot Podcast Ep 124

24 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Tom Hewitson is CEO and founder of Labworks.io, a voice app studio in London known from some of the most popular games on Alexa such as Would You Rath...

Samsung Bixby Developers from Home Advisor, Baby Stats, Dilli Labs, and Volley - Voicebot Podcast Ep 123

17 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Four independent developers discuss their experience building for Samsung Bixby and react to announcements from Samsung Developer Conference 2019, inc...

The ConverCon Interviews with SoundHound, Soapbox Labs, Algolia, and Webio - Voicebot Podcast Ep 122

11 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week we have four interviews conducted onsite at ConverCon in Dublin in October 2019. First up is Katie McMahon, GM of SoundHound, a leading cust...

Larry Heck CEO of Viv Labs and SVP at Samsung Talks Bixby and 30 Years in Voice - Voicebot Podcast Ep 121

03 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Larry Heck is CEO of Viv Labs and a Senior Vice President at Samsung. In that role, he oversees all things Bixby. Prior to his work with Bixby, La...

Sanjay Dhawan CEO of Cerence Talks About Voice and AI in the Car - Voicebot Podcast Ep 120

27 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Sanjay Dhawan is CEO of Cerence, the recent spin-out company from what used to be known as Nuance Automotive. On October 1st it became a separate comp...

Voice Landscape in Europe from All About Voice Conference - Voicebot Podcast Ep 119

19 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week's interviews were conducted onsite at the All About Voice Conference in Munich, Germany. That enabled us to capture the European (and Isreal...

Enterprise Voice Assistant Adoption and Org Structure with Nestle, RBC, and American Red Cross - Voicebot Podcast Ep 118

12 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

During the Voice 19 conference, I had the opportunity to host a panel discussion of enterprise voice leaders from Nestle, Royal Bank of Canada, and th...

Financial Services and Voice AI with Prudential, Visa and TD Ameritrade from Voice Summit - Voicebot Podcast Ep 117

07 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Financial services has become one of the leading industries driving the adoption of voice ad AI technologies. At the Voice 19 conference this year I h...

Amazon Alexa Product Launch Event Commentary from Amazon's Daniel Rausch, USA Today, The Spoon, CNET, and Voicebot - Voicebot Podcast Ep 116

28 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Amazon held its annual Alexa product launch event in September 2019 and there were some expected announcements along with a few surprises. Hearables, ...

Chris Mitchell CEO of Audio Analytic - Voicebot Podcast Ep 115

22 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Chris Mitchell is CEO and founder of Audio Analytic. He has a Ph.D. in information retrieval from Anglia Ruskin University and also holds degrees in a...

10 Voice Technology Applications That are Not Alexa and Friends with Jeff Adams CEO of Cobalt- Voicebot Podcast Ep 114

13 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Jeff Adams is best known for leading the ASR team that built Amazon's Alexa and we went into that history in-depth in episode 59 last year. He has ac...

Gene Munster Founder of Loup Ventures Talks Voice SEO, Smart Speaker Sales, and Apple - Voicebot Podcast Ep 113

08 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Gene Munster is managing partner at Loup Ventures, a venture capital fund focused on early-stage investing. We discuss Apple's voice strategy, Voice S...

Braden Ream CEO of Voiceflow - Voicebot Podcast Ep 112

01 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Braden Ream is co-founder and CEO of Voiceflow which was officially founded in 2018. The company initially started around the idea of creating a new c...

Podcasts and Voice Assistants - Interviews with Google, Edison Research, Westwood One, Spoken Layer, Amplifi and Witlingo - Voicebot Podcast Ep 111

23 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week's interviews are all about the intersection of podcasts (the content) and voice assistants (the channel). Interviews were conducted onsite a...

Dave Isbitski of Amazon Talks About the Early Days of Alexa - Voicebot Podcast Ep 110

19 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

David Isbitski joined the Alexa team in early 2015, shortly after the Amazon Echo launched and before Alexa Skills Kit or the skill store. When he sta...

Adam Cheyer of Samsung and Viv Labs Talks 25 Years of Voice Assistants - Voicebot Podcast Ep 109

12 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Adam Cheyer is co-founder and VP of Engineering of Viv Labs and Vice President of R&D at Samsung. He is also a founding member of Change.org and Sen...

Marketer Adoption of Voice Apps as a Marketing Channel - Voicebot Podcast Ep 108

03 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Voicebot recently surveyed over 300 marketers to determine their enthusiasm and activity around voice assistants as a marketing channel. That report i...

Voice Summit 19 Onsite Interviews - Voicebot Podcast Ep 2017

28 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Voice Summit 19 was the largest gathering of voice industry professionals globally in 2019. Voicebot took the opportunity to speak with six industry l...

Voice Assistant SEO for Brands with Ben Fisher and Ava Mutchler - Voicebot Podcast Ep 106

21 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week's episode is the audio from a recent webinar focused on the results of the Voice Assistant SEO Report for Brands. Ben Fisher of Magic + Co. ...

Amy Stapleton, Dave Kemp, and Pete Haas Discuss First 100 Episodes - Voicebot Podcast Ep 105

14 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

There have been so many rich insights offered by Voicebot Podcast guests that I wanted to figure out a simple way to unlock a few of those nuggets in ...

Top Voice News of First Half of 2019 with Ben Fox Rubin, Pete Erickson, and Eric Schwartz - Voicebot Podcast Ep 104

05 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The first half of 2019 started with data around big growth numbers for smart speakers over the previous year, Amazon saying there were more than 100 m...

NYC AI, Bots and Marketing Meetup with Betaworks, Skilled Creative, Vayner Media, and Resemble AI - Voicebot Podcast Ep 103

30 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

There are five guests in this week's episode that all attended and presented at the recent AI, Bots, and Marketing meetup in New York City. We are joi...

Rupal Patel CEO of VocaliD Discusses Customized Synthetic Voices - Voicebot Podcast Ep 102

21 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Rupal Patel is the founder and CEO of VocaliD. She founded the company in 2014 to provide voice prostheses for people that cannot speak in their own v...

The Re MARS Interviews with Pulse Labs, Volley, The Cube, Reuters, Bondad, and Philosophical Creations - Voicebot Podcast Ep 101

17 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Today's episode is a compilation of six interviews captured onsite at Amazon's inaugural Re: MARS conference earlier this month. MARS stands for Machi...

Audrey Arbeeny of Audiobrain Talks Sonic Branding and the Rise of Voice - Voicebot Podcast Ep. 100

09 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Audrey Arbeeny is an Emmy Award Winning Executive Producer and Creative Director that is also the founder of Audiobrain, a leading sonic branding agen...

Margaret Mayer VP of Conversational AI at Capital One Talks Voice Assistants, Alexa, and Eno - Voicebot Podcast Ep 99

31 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Margaret Mayer is the Managing Vice President, Messaging, Conversational AI & Emerging Technologies at Capital One and has been with the company over...

Marco Iacono COO of Viv and VP Mobile R&D for Samsung Bixby Talks Voice Assistant Design and Launch - Voicebot Podcast Ep 98

26 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Marco Iacono is COO at Viv Labs and a VP of mobile R&D at Samsung. Viv Labs is the Samsung acquisition that gave us Bixby 2.0 that was introduced last...

Amir Hirsh CEO of Audioburst Discusses Audio Content Search and Discovery - Voicebot Podcast Ep 97

20 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Amir Hirsh is founder and CEO of Audioburst. He founded the company in 2014 after a long career in cybersecurity with the idea of transcribing and in...

Four Developers React to Google IO 2019 Announcements - Voicebot Podcast Ep 96

12 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The annual Google I/O developer conference had a lot of focus on Google Assistant as expected, but the company's direction is clearly shifting. In thi...

Dave Isbitski Amazon Chief Evangelist for Alexa Talks Voice Adoption - Voicebot Podcast Ep 95

05 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Dave Isbitski became Amazon's first chief evangelist for Alexa in 2014. That's five years, but in smart speaker time, it's an eternity. Dave started ...

Ron Croen, Founding CEO of Nuance and Partner at You and Mr. Jones Brandtech Ventures - Voicebot Podcast Ep 94

28 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Ron Croen was the founding CEO of Nuance who worked with three researchers at SRI to launch the company in 1994. Nuance went public in 2000 and merged...

Voice in the Car Part 2 with John Foster of Aiqudo, Rachel Battish of Audioburst, and Fred Jacobs of Jacobs Media - Voicebot Podcast Ep 93

20 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Voice interaction is becoming a common feature in cars but it is about more than just controlling temperature settings and navigation. Three innovator...

Voice Assistants in the Car with Amazon Alexa, Nuance Automotive, and Harman - Voicebot Podcast Ep 92

13 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Voice assistants in the car pre-date Siri on iPhone by a decade and smart speakers in the home by even longer. The use cases bring obvious benefits be...

Smart Speaker Adoption Data for Australia with Matt Ware and Lachlan Pottenger of First and Ava Mutchler - Voicebot Podcast Ep 91

08 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Matt Ware and Lachlan Pottenger of FIRST Digital in Australia join Ava Mutchler and Bret Kinsella to discuss the results of the 2019 Australia Smart S...

Steven Arkonovich Creator of Big Sky on Alexa - Voicebot Podcast Ep 90

01 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Steven Arkonovich is a professor of philosophy at Reed College by day and a leading Alexa skill developer by night. He began developing Alexa skills ...

Tom Livne CEO of Verbit Talks Voice and Transcription - Voicebot Podcast Ep 89

25 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Tom Livne is the CEO and co-founder of Verbit.ai. The company provides an AI-driven transcription service for the legal and academic markets that guar...

US Smart Speaker Adoption Trends with Jeff McMahon, Jason Fields and Ava Mutchler - Voicebot Podcast Ep 88

17 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is all about US smart speaker adoption data and trends and what it tells us about the future of voice assistant use worldwide. Jeff McMah...

Mark Lippett CEO of XMOS on the Chips that Make Voice Assistants Work - Voicebot Podcast Ep 87

11 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Lippett joined XMOS in 2006 as VP of Engineering and was later promoted to COO and then CEO about three years ago. XMOS is a fabless semiconducto...

Vijay Balasubramaniyan CEO of Pindrop Security - Voicebot Podcast Ep 86

01 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Vijay Balasubramaniyan co-founded Pindrop Security in 2011 after completing his PhD and presenting his research about verifying identity based on soun...

Matt Ware and Lachlan Pottenger of First Talk Voice Shopping in Australia - Voicebot Podcast Ep 85

25 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Matt Ware is Group Operating Director at Agencies 3Di, First, and TPN, and Lachlan Pottenger is Creative Director at First, a leading digital agency i...

Amy Stapleton CEO of Tellables Talks Voice Interactive Stories - Voicebot Podcast Ep. 84

18 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Amy Stapleton is CEO and founder of Tellables which works with authors to develop interactive story games designed to be played through voice assistan...

Ben Fisher CEO of Magic and Co Talks Voice and Brands - Voicebot Podcast Ep 83

10 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Ben Fisher is CEO and founder of Magic and Co, a voice consultancy that helps brands and enterprises implement voice assistant technologies. Previousl...

Voice Assistant Use in the Car with Metrock, Vuori, and Mutchler - Voicebot Podcast Ep 82

03 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Voice assistant use in the car is 60% higher than smart speakers on a monthly basis, but it doesn't get as much attention. There are more users and th...