The Voicebot Podcast
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Niko Vuori CEO of Drivetime.fm Talks Voice Games for the Car - Voicebot Podcast Ep 81
28 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Niko Vuori is founder and CEO of Drivetime.fm, a company focused on creating games that you can safely play while you drive. The company's first title...
Brian Roemmele Talks About The Last Interface and Intelligence Amplifier - Voicebot Podcast Ep 80
21 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Roemmele first started working with voice technology in the 1980's and recently expanded his research efforts. At the Alexa Conference in Januar...
CES 2019 Interviews with Google, Samsung, Nuance, Alibaba and More - Voicebot Podcast Ep 79
14 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week's episode has 11 more interviews from the CES 2019 show floor. We have real-time reactions from executives at some of the world's leading co...
CES 2019 - Eight Interviews with Voice Innovators - Voicebot Podcast Ep 78
08 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
CES 2019 officially kicks off today, but Voicebot already has eight interviews with a select group of voice innovators exhibiting at the conference th...
Paul Cutsinger of the Amazon Alexa Team - Voicebot Podcast Ep 77
05 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Cutsinger is responsible for building, supporting, and training the Amazon Alexa developer community. He joined Amazon in 2013, served as Chief E...
Zach Johnson CEO of Xandra a Conversation Design Studio - Voicebot Podcast Ep 76
31 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Zach Johnson is CEO and co-founder of Xandra, a conversation design studio. Earlier in his career, he was CEO at SPARK Bureau and Atmail. Way back in...
Tim Kahle and Dominik Meissner of 169 Labs Discuss Voice Adoption in Europe - Voicebot Podcast Ep 75
24 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Tim Kahle and Dominik Meissner are co-founders of 169 Labs, a leading voice app development agency in Germany. They discuss Amazon Alexa skill and Goo...
Voice Assistant Year in Review with Bouzid, Hewitson and Kaushansky - Voicebot Podcast Ep 74
16 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A lot happened in voice assistant land in 2018. An all-star panel breaks it down for you this week with Ahmed Bouzid, CEO of Witlingo, Tom Hewitson fr...
Voice Assistant Adoption Beyond the Smart Speaker with Oren Jacob and Greg Hedges - Voicebot Podcast Ep 73
09 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Oren Jacob is CEO and founder of PullString and Greg Hedges is Vice President of Emerging Experiences at RAIN Agency. In this episode, we break down t...
Stuart Patterson CEO of LifePod Talks Proactive Voice and Assistants for Elders - Voicebot Podcast Ep 72
02 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Stuart Patterson is CEO and co-founder of LifePod Solutions. The mission of the company is to transform how people care for their parents and other el...
Nic Newman on Voice Assistant Adoption and the Media - Voicebot Podcast Ep 71
23 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Nic Newman just completed a comprehensive study for the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism about smart speaker adoption titled "The Future ...
Bixby from a Developer Perspective with Murphy, Kibbe and Haas - Voicebot Podcast Ep 70
19 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Following up on our Podcast with Adam Cheyer (Ep 69), Samsung Bixby's engineering leader, I caught up with some developers and researchers that have w...
Adam Cheyer Co-Founder of Siri and Viv and Engineering Lead for Samsung Bixby - Voicebot Podcast Ep 69
11 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Cheyer is a co-founder of Siri and Viv. He is the technical leader and visionary behind the original Siri on the iPhone 4s and Bixby 2.0 which ro...
Heidi Culbertson CEO of Marvee on Voice and the Elder Community - Voicebot Podcast Ep 68
05 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Heidi Culbertson began her career in mobile technology solution sales for Sprint, USAT and Incode wireless. Her work in enterprise sales often require...
Rishad Tobaccowala, Publicis Chief Growth Officer Talks Voice and Brands - Voicebot Podcast Episode 67
29 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week we have Rishad Tobaccowala, chief growth officer of Publicis. Publicis is one of the three largest marketing agency holding companies world...
Voice UX Best Practices with Emerson Sklar of Applause - Voicebot Podcast Ep 66
22 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Voicebot recently published the Voice UX Best Practices eBook. It is a 45-page masterclass in Voice UX that includes over 100 tips and recommendations...
Bill Cava Co-Founder of Orbita Talks Voice and Healthcare - Voicebot Podcast Ep 65
14 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Bill Cava is the chief product officer and co-founder of Orbita, a voice technology company focused on healthcare. Orbita has worked with hospitals, s...
Alexa Accelerator Interviews Class of 2018 (Jargon, Helix AI, Presence AI) - Voicebot Podcast Ep 64
08 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Voicebot recently traveled to Seattle to meet with some of the company founders in the 2018 cohort of the Alexa Accelerator Powered by Techstars. I al...
Doug Schumacher Founder of Arrovox and the Voice Marketing Podcast - Voicebot Podcast Ep 63
01 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Doug Schumacher is likely known to Voicebot listeners as either the host of the VoiceMarketing Podcast or creator of the satirical Homie & Lexy Podcas...
Alexa Product Launch Event with Graham (USA Today), Jurran (CT) and Dastin (Reuters) - Voicebot Podcast Ep 62
24 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Amazon held their now annual Alexa hardware event this past week in Seattle. Voicebot was onsite for demonstrations of 12 new Alexa products and 70 ot...
Omar Tawakol CEO of Voicera on Creating a Conversations Inbox - Voicebot Podcast Ep 61
16 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Omar Tawakol is CEO and co-founder of Voicera which he says is creating a conversations inbox and system of record for meetings. The core solution is ...
Adam Marchick CEO of Alpine AI Discusses Headspace Acquisition - Voicebot Podcast 60
09 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Marchick sat down to discuss his journey with Voice Labs and Alpine AI and the recent acquisition by Headspace. He breaks down the three phases o...
Jeff Adams CEO of Cobalt and Former Alexa Team Lead - Voicebot Podcast Ep 59
02 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff Adams has spent more than two decades in the voice industry. During that time he worked for well recognized industry names that include Scansoft,...
Nick Schwab of Invoked Apps Talks Alexa Skill Product Strategy - Voicebot Podcast Ep 58
27 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Schwab founded Invoked apps after building his first three Alexa skills in 2016. Within six months he had more sounds and was streaming 1 TB of d...
Jess Williams of Opearlo Talks Consumer Alexa Skill Discovery Strategies - Voicebot Podcast Ep 57
20 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jess Williams is co-founder of Opearlo, a company that started out building Alexa skills for Unilever and other brands, but switched to building games...
Jan König Discusses the Jovo Open Source Framework for Voice App Development - Voicebot Podcast Ep 56
12 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jan König is co-founder and CEO of Jovo, the maker of an open source, context-first development framework. Context here refers to the device type suc...
John Kelvie CEO of Bespoken Discusses How Voice App Testing is Different - Voicebot Podcast Ep 55
05 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
John Kelvie is CEO and co-founder of Bespoken which provides voice app testing, monitoring and development software. Bespoken has over 1,000 users and...
Shane Mac CEO of Assist Says The Talking Internet is Here - Voicebot Podcast Ep 54
30 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Shane Mac co-founded Assist five years ago with Geek Squad founder Robert Stephens. Since then, Assist has focused on enabling the talking internet fo...
Tom Hebner Global Innovation Head for Nuance Talks 20 Years in Voice - Voicebot Podcast Ep 53
23 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Hebner is the Global Head of Innovation at Nuance Communications. He has been at the company since 1999 by way of acquisition in 2008, so has had ...
Pulse Labs Founders Talk Voice App Testing and Alexa Accelerator - Voicebot Podcast Ep 52
15 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Pulse Labs co-founders Abhishek Suthan (CEO) and Dylan Zwick (CPO) brought their crowdsourced voice app testing service into the first Alexa Accelerat...
Rand Hindi CEO of Snips Talks Independent Voice Assistants, Privacy, Block Chain and ICO - Voicebot Podcast 51
09 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Rand Hindi is co-founder and CEO of Snips.ai. He is the former CEO of Hinran, a web development agency and a co-founder of PlanetUltra, the first soci...
Voice Shopping Panel - Brian Colcord and Ryan MacInnis of Voysis plus Kinsella and Mutchler - Voicebot Podcast Ep 50
29 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This special episode is dedicated to voice commerce trends and data. In particular we discuss the results of the recently published Voice Shopping Con...
Adva Levin Founder of Pretzel Labs Talks Voice-First Games - Voicebot Podcast Ep 49
24 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Adva Levin is founder of Pretzel Labs, a Tel Aviv-based company that creates voice-first games that children can play through Amazon Echo and soon Goo...
Mycroft AI CEO Joshua Montgomery Talks Open Source Voice Assistant - Voicebot Podcast Ep 48
17 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Joshua Montgomery founded Mycroft AI in early 2015 and since that time has done two successful Kickstarter campaigns, graduated from both Tech Stars a...
Voice AI First Half 2018 Review - All Star Panel - Voicebot Podcast Ep 47
10 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week's episode focuses on voice AI events, products and news from the first half of 2018. We discuss Apple's announcements from WWDC and whether ...
Novel Effect Founders Use Voice and Sound to Enhance Story Time and More - Voicebot Podcast Ep 46
03 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Melissa and Matthew Hammersley co-founded Novel Effect in 2015 to use voice recognition combined with sound effects to enhance story time for parents ...
Noelle LaCharite of Microsoft Cognitive Services Talks AI and Building Voice Models - Voicebot Podcast Ep 45
27 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Noelle LaCharite recently moved to Microsoft Cognitive Services after many years at Amazon including a role leading a machine learning team as a senio...
Voice SEO Explained by Stone Temple CEO Eric Enge - Voicebot Podcast Ep. 44
21 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is an expert in traditional SEO from the web and mobile and has done some of the most interesting research to date on voice SEO. Eric En...
Google Assistant Developer Panel, Jochen Emig CTO Onsei and Michael Myers CPO XAPmedia - Voicebot Podcast Ep. 43
14 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week's episode is all about Google Assistant. Experienced Google Assistant developers Jochen Emig, CTO of Onsei, and Michael Myers, Chief Product...
John Foster, CEO of Aiqudo, Talks Voice Enabling Mobile Apps - Voicebot Podcast Ep. 42
10 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
John Foster is CEO of Aiqudo, a company he cofounded in March 2017. Aiqudo was developed to help people do more things, more quickly. It is a virtual ...
SoundHound CEO Keyvan Mohajer Discusses the Hound Voice Assistant and $100 Million Funding Round - Voicebot Podcast Ep. 41
03 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Keyvan Mohajer is co-founder and CEO of Soundhound, known for the app that will tell you in seconds what song is playing. The company is becoming even...
The Elements of Multi-Modal Design with Karen Kaushansky - Voicebot Podcast Ep. 40
30 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Karen Kaushansky started as a speech technology designer at Nortel in the mid-1990's and moved on to become a voice user interface designer at Nuance....
Alexa Developer Panel with Octavio Menocal and Eric Olson - Voicebot Podcast Ep. 39
22 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Amazon has added a lot of features to Alexa Skills Kit over the past year. Voicebot asked two of the most experienced Alexa developers to weigh in on ...
Chris Messina Founder of Molly Talks Personalized Assistants - Voicebot Podcast Episode 38
16 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Messina is co-founder of the company that makes the personalized virtual assistant Molly. He is a frequent conference speaker and commentator on...
Storyline CEO Vasili Shynkarenka - Voicebot Podcast Episode 37
09 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Vasili Shynkarenka is co-founder and CEO of Storyline, the company dedicated to making it easy for anyone to create an Amazon Alexa skill without cod...
Volley Founders Max Child and James Wilsterman - Voicebot Podcast Episode 36
02 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Max Child and James Wilsterman are co-founders of Volley, a company that makes games for Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. The Volley games Song Quiz...
Stas Tushinskiy CEO Instreamatic Talks Ad Monetization for Voice - Voicebot Podcast Episode 35
25 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Stas Tushinskiy is CEO and co-founder of Instreamatic.ai. The company today delivers audio ads that consumers can interact with by voice on mobile and...
Smart Speaker Adoption Data Review, PullString and RAIN Weigh In - Episode 34 Voicebot Podcast
18 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Voicebot, PullString and RAIN collaborated on the Smart Speaker Consumer Adoption Report 2018. Today's special episode breaks down the findings and ex...
Voicebot Podcast Episode 33 - Mark Webster CEO Sayspring
12 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Webster is the CEO and Founder of Sayspring. Founded in 2016, Sayspring offers online software that allows anyone to quickly create interactive p...
Voicebot Podcast Episode 32 - Dr. Ahmed Bouzid CEO of Witlingo
05 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ahmed Bouzid is founder and CEO of Witlingo, a company that helps brands, non-profits and other organizations ranging from The Motley Fool and Berlitz...
Voicebot Podcast Episode 31 - Tractica Principal Analyst Mark Beccue
25 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Beccue is principal analyst at market research firm Tractica and recently published a report revealing that the virtual digital assistant softwar...
Voicebot Podcast Episode 30 - Cathy Pearl Author of Designing Voice User Interfaces
19 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Cathy Pearl is best known as the author of Designing Voice User Interfaces published by O'Reilly Media. She is currently Vice President of User Experi...
Voicebot Podcast Episode 29 - Tobias Goebel of Aspect Software Discusses Computational Linguistics and Bot Design
12 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Tobias Goebel is Senior Director, Emerging Technologies for Aspect Software. He has a Masters Degree in Computational Linguistics and has studied at b...
Voicebot Podcast Episode 28 - Tim McElreath of Scripps (Food Network) Talks Multimodal Design
05 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Tim McElreath is Director of Engineering, Mobile and Emerging Platforms at Scripps which among other things owns Food Network and HGTV. Food Network n...
Voicebot Podcast Episode 27 - Steven Hansen RAIN Agency
29 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Steven Hansen is the CTO of RAIN Agency. RAIN is well known for its more than 30 Alexa skills launched for high profile brands ranging from Tide, Hell...
Voicebot Podcast Episode 26 - All About Bot Analytics with Dashbot CEO Arte Merritt
22 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Voice assistants and chatbots have ushered in a new UI and interaction model for consumers. Conversational interactions are very different from the st...
Voicebot Podcast Episode 25 - CES 2018 Recap with All-Star Panel
15 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The consumer electronics show (CES) is visited annually by 180 thousand people and many of the big names in tech have a large presence. CES 2017 was l...
Voicebot Podcast Episode 24 - Todd Mozer CEO Sensory
09 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Todd Mozer is Chairman and CEO of Sensory. He founded the company in 1994 to enable people to communicate with consumer electronics the way we do with...
Voicebot Podcast Episode 23 - Owen Brown CTO of Starbutter
01 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Owen Brown is co-founder and CTO of Starbutter AI which works at the intersection of virtual assistants and financial products. Starbutter is a leadin...
Voicebot Episode 22 - 2017 Voice Assistant Year in Review
26 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
A lot happened in 2017 related to voice assistants. Voice app growth, rapid consumer adoption, monetization, smart speakers vs voice assistants on sma...
Voicebot Podcast Episode 21 - Oren Jacob CEO Pullstring
18 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Oren Jacob is co-founder and CEO of Pullstring. Founded in 2011, Pullstring is maker of Converse, an enterprise SaaS platform for building, deploying ...
Voicebot Podcast Episode 20 - Derrick Fountain of TRT World News Media Talks Voice AI from Turkey
11 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
TRT World is a global news media organization headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey. Derrick Fountain oversees TRT World's product and R&D group and has l...
Voicebot Podcast Episode 19 - Matt Hartman, Partner at Betaworks on Voice Tech Investing and Startups
03 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Matt Hartman is a partner at Betaworks, a venture fund and innovation firm. Betaworks has made several investments in voice technology and recently ho...
Voicebot Podcast Episode 18 - Shane Mac CEO Assist
27 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Shane Mac is CEO and co-founder of Assist which provides a voice and chatbot platform for brands looking to engage consumers. The platform works acros...
Voicebot Podcast Episode 17 - Peter Nann, Voice UX from an Australian Perspective
20 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Nann is the speech and automation lead at Salmat and has worked in speech technology since 1993. He started as a software developer and by 2001 ...
Voicebot Podcast Episode 16 - David Watkins of Strategy Analytics
13 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
David Watkins is Service Director for Connected Home Devices at research firm Strategy Analytics, and is one of the leading analysts tracking the voic...
Voicebot Podcast Episode 15 - Hicham Tahiri CEO Smartly.ai
06 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Hicham Tahiri is the founder and CEO of Smartly.ai. While Hicham started as an embedded systems engineer, he began his job as a voice user interface...
Voicebot Podcast Episode 14 - Brad Abrams, Google Assistant Group Product Manager
31 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Brad Abrams is Group Product Manager for Google Assistant. He takes time in this interview to share experiences from the first year of the voice assi...
Voicebot Podcast Episode 13 - Jan König, CEO of Jovo
23 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Jan König is CEO of Jovo, a company providing a framework and tools for building robust multi-modal apps that include voice. Along with Alex Swetlow,...
Voicebot Podcast Episode 12 - David Beisel of NextView Ventures
16 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
David is a partner and co-founder at NextView Ventures. The firm just raised a new $50 million fund for seed stage investments in the Everyday Economy...
Voicebot Podcast Episode 11 - Pat Higbie XAPPmedia CEO
09 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Pat Higbie is CEO and co-founder of XAPPmedia which delivers voice interactive apps and managed services for media and brands looking to connect with ...
Voicebot Podcast Episode 10 - Peter Cahill CEO of Voysis
02 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Cahill has been working in voice technology for 15 years. He has a PhD. in Text-to-Speech, was a professor of speech technology at the Universit...
Voicebot Podcast Episode 9 - Leading Alexa Game Developer Jo Jaquinta
25 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Jo Jaquinta has been a developer for 20 years and started developing games for Amazon Alexa in 2015. Since that time, he has written two books on voic...
Voicebot Podcast Episode 8 - Bryan Moffett of National Public Media
18 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Bryan Moffett is COO of National Public Media, a subsidiary of audio content powerhouse NPR. NPR began working with voice interaction on mobile in 201...
Voicebot Podcast Episode 7 - Life Bot Founders Jess Williams and Oscar Merry
11 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Jess Williams and Oscar Merry started working with Amazon Alexa in 2015 while at Accenture and then left to start their own London-based digital agenc...
Voicebot Podcast Episode 6 - John Kelvie of Bespoken
04 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
John Kelvie is a veteran of voice interaction on mobile and an early developer for voice assistants like Amazon Alexa and Google Home. Seeing a lack o...
Voicebot Podcast Episode 5 - Dan Whaley on Voice UX in the UK
28 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Whaley talks about how Alexa development is coming along in the UK and demonstrates some Alexa skills to point out strengths and weaknesses of voi...
Voicebot Podcast Episode 4 - Alexa Developer and Author Quentin Delaoutre
23 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Quentin Delaoutre is a leading Amazon Alexa Developer from France. He is the creator of Jab, the first messaging Alexa skill, the AlexaSkillsStore.com...
Voicebot Podcast Episode 3 - Voice UX Expert Lisa Falkson
14 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Lisa Falkson is the Principal Voice UX Architect at self-driving car startup NIO and also serves as an advisor to Witlingo, a voice technology design ...
Voicebot Podcast Episode 2 - Independent Developer, Nick Schwab
08 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Just as independent developers helped drive smartphone usage with apps for iOS and Android, they are also key to keeping consumers engaged on smar...
Voicebot Podcast Episode 1 - The Upstart, SoundHound
23 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
There is a lot of focus on the big voice platforms from Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Apple, but what about the independent platforms that will challe...