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Learn how to build quality voice experiences from industry leaders and pioneers with Design for Voice. The goal is to help designers, developers, and strategists with understanding what makes for good design practices and how to bring them to life. The show is hosted by Jeremy Wilken and includes guests from Google, Mule Design, VoiceFlow, Invoked Apps, Grand Studio and more. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/design-for-voice/support
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Welcome to the world's most valuable tech and business podcast. Learn from experts in marketing, business and tech - from startups to multi-nationals - and find out how your brand can get the best ROI from the rapid changes in emerging technology and marketing. We talk to startups, scale-ups, big tech, entrepreneurs, creators and agencies about the highest-impact tools and resources you can use right now to grow and market your business. Get insights and practical ways to win with AI, no-cod ...
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Welcome S2/Ep5 of Conversations Worth Millions, the world's most valuable emerging technology podcast In this episode, I have a fascinating chat with Tom Head, AKA the Web 3 Guy. Where we get into the current state of web 3, what brands can do to get involved. We talk about trust, transparency, centralised and decentralised optionality, where we're…
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Description Welcome S2/Ep4 of Conversations Worth Millions, the world's most valuable emerging technology podcast In this episode, I have a fascinating chat with chief sustainability office at Kyan, Gavin Shinfield We chat about being a regenerative business, what sustainability means in practice for businesses and designing effective solutions for…
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Welcome S2/Ep22 of Conversations Worth Millions, the world's most valuable emerging technology podcast In this episode, I have a fascinating chat with IoT expert Steve O'Brien of NewIcon We chat about the Internet of Things, how the world is becoming more programmable, GPT3, the future of humanity, information flows and lean engineering. Steve has …
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Welcome S2/Ep2 of Conversations Worth Millions, the worlds most valuable emerging technology podcast In this episode I have a fascinating chat with Conversation Design expert, Wouter Slighter. We cover conversational experiences, voice, best use cases, GPT3 and even manage to get the world's worst Donald Duck impression in there. Wild. Wouter has a…
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Our season #2 opener is a corker. We have Martin Cookson, Director for Service Innovation at Cambridge Consultants, talking about web 3 trust, privacy and the opportunities for brands to get involved. Martin has a load of expertise to share - from his storied career in big tech, mobile and digital service innovation Find out about; How brands can u…
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Series #2 of Conversations Worth Millions is coming! The world's most valuable business and technology podcast is on the way. It'll be a wild ride around the cutting-edge of the Internet. We'll be speaking to future-focussed startups, scale-ups and big tech about what the future for brands is for using emerging and new technology to make their busi…
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Benjamin Hawkins uses decades of marketing experience and insightful thoughts to shed light on hyper-personalization with artificial intelligence, the need for engagement and live events, enticing a shorter attention span and much more in this latest podcast episode. Benjamin Hawkins is the founder of his own consultancy and the former Executive Pr…
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This episode’s special guest is Shyamala Prayaga, the Product Owner Digital Assistant at the Ford Motor Company as well as the Founder of the Digital Assistant Academy and the Founder of the Women in Voice Michigan Chapter. She's very active in the Voice AI community as well as conversational design, having a vast background in UX and design. At Fo…
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Hello and welcome to the 'Future is Spoken' produced by the digital assistant Academy. In Today's episode, Shyamala Prayaga speaks with Maikel Van Der Wouden about the Sonic branding in Voice Design. Maikel van der Wouden, a highly passionate audiophile, and design engineer has a lot of experience developing voice branding strategies and audio asse…
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Hello and welcome to the 'Future is Spoken' produced by the digital assistant Academy. In Today's episode, Shyamala Prayaga speaks with Julie Daniel Davis about the Voice First Usecases for FinTecin Education. A former accountant turned educator, Julie Daniel Davis enjoys thinking about innovative ways to enhance education and then making them happ…
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Hello and welcome to the 'Future is Spoken' produced by the digital assistant Academy. In Today's episode, Shyamala Prayaga speaks with Rana Gujral about the Voice First Usecases for FinTech. Rana Gujral is an entrepreneur, speaker, investor, and CEO at Behavioral Signals, an enterprise software company that excels at distinguishing behavioral sign…
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Hello and welcome to the 'Future is Spoken' produced by the digital assistant Academy. In Today's episode, Shyamala Prayaga speaks with Bret Kinsella about the Current and Future Trends of Conversational AI. Bret is the founder, CEO, and research director of Voicebot.ai. He was named commentator of the year by the Alexa Conference in 2019 and is wi…
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This episode’s special guest is Frederic Chesnais, the current CEO of Atari. Atari, a pioneering video game company, has published some of the most beloved arcade and video games like Pac-man, Space Invaders, Asteroids and now running the Roller Coaster Tycoon franchise. Frederic’s current efforts at Atari are transforming gaming once again with a …
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Hello and welcome to the 'Future is Spoken' produced by the digital assistant Academy. In Today's episode, Shyamala Prayaga speaks with Nicholas Sawka and Benjamin Falvo from Voice Spark about Voice Evangelism and testing. Nicholas was recently brought on at Wanderword as their Chief Evangelist. Nick will represent Wanderword in the US in sales, ne…
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Empathy is the first step to design any product because it is a skill that allows us to understand and share the same feelings that others feel. Through Empathy, we can put ourselves in other people's shoes and connect with how they might be feeling about their problem, circumstance, or situation. When we design products with Empathy in mind, we ar…
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The Future is Spoken presents Ryan Elza as this week's guest. Ryan Elza is Vice President of Innovation and Technology at Volunteers of America National Services. Before that, Ryan was Social Entrepreneurship in Residence for Social Connectedness at AARP Foundation and led AARP Foundation's social isolation and digital inclusion work. He has an ext…
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Stephen is currently the CEO and Creative Director of Fracture Labs as well as the Creative Partnership Manager at Frame Machine. His first projects were partnerships for games including World of Tanks (Wargaming), Angry Birds (Rovio/Chillingo), Cut the Rope (Zeptolab/Chillingo), Vampire Wars (Zynga) and many more. His current portfolio includes bl…
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The Future is Spoken presents Matthew Hammersley as this week's guest. Matthew Hammersley is the Founder and CEO of the novel effect, which uses voice recognition combined with sound effects to enhance storytime for parents, teachers and children. Matt was previously a patent attorney for various companies. During his daughter's baby shower functio…
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The Future is Spoken presents Susan and Scot Westwater as this week's guest. Susan and Scot Westwater are the husband-and-wife co-founders of Pragmatic Digital where they advise the world's most innovative brands that want to capitalize on the incredible opportunity Voice represents. Through their consultancy, Susan and Scot help clients solve thei…
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The Future is Spoken presents Daniel Suissa and Ilana Meir as this week's guest. Ilana Meir is a Conversation Designer at Facebook Reality Labs. There, she works with a cross-functional team with AR/VR technologies, namely Oculus and Portal. Ilana approaches her work with a cultural lens: first seeking to understand the cultural underpinnings of be…
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On the latest episode of Innovative Interactions from Resemble AI is Denisse Kreeger. Denisse is currently the Head of Global Localization Production at Riot Games. In the past, she has worked with Blizzard Entertainment and Netflix, to ensure a global audience can enjoy their respective content. She's been in various roles within localization, inc…
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The Future is Spoken presents Jonathan Bloom as this week’s guest. Jonathan is a Senior Conversation Designer for Google, focusing on the Google Assistant. Jon was previously the UX Research Lead for Jibo, Inc., creators of the social robot of the same name. Jon was also Senior Voice User Interface Manager for Nuance Communications, where he sat on…
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The Future is Spoken presents Jon Stine as this week’s guest. Jon Stine is the Executive Director of The Open Voice Network (OVN), a non-profit global association dedicated to bringing the benefit of standards to the world of artificial intelligence-enabled voice assistance. The OVN is a Directed Fund of The Linux Foundation. He brings to this role…
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On the latest episode of Innovative Interactions from Resemble AI is Perry Tell. Perry started his career as a member of the hip band in the 80s, called “Figures on a Beach”. Before becoming the CEO of Potato he was the Founder of Inmoji, with clients like Starbucks, Disney, Viacom, Facebook, and Universal Studio before being acquired. He is now th…
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On our latest podcast episode, Sandy Kolkey of Hawkeye describes what he believes are the core fundamentals of creative marketing, among many other nuggets of wisdom. Sandy is the Chief Client Officer of Hawkeye, a one-of-a-kind human experience agency. They create experiences across their customer journey, leveraging human insight, the world’s bes…
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The Future is Spoken presents Jeff Adams as this week's guest. Jeff has been leading prominent speech & language technology research for more than 20 years. Until 2009, he worked at Nuance / Dragon, where he was responsible for developing and improving speech recognition for Nuance's "Dragon" dictation software. He presided over many of the critica…
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Chris is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and technologist, now the Co-Founder and CEO of Babblelabs, recently acquired by Cisco. Babblelabs is a deep learning technology company, focused on speech. Most recently, he has led Cognite Ventures, a specialized analysis and investment company for deep learning startups. Prior to Cognite, he served as CTO f…
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The Future is Spoken presents Elaine Lee as this week's guest. Elaine Lee is a designer specializing in artificial intelligence and machine learning, with a focus on ethical AI. She's currently a Principal Product Designer at Twilio on the AI team, and previously led the design of eBay's AI-powered shopping assistant on Facebook Messenger and Googl…
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Dean Orion is the Creative Director of Universal Studios Beijing where he is leading the creative execution of Kung Fu Panda, Land of Awesomeness. He is an iconic writer/producer/creative director with many years of experience designing interactive media projects as well as writing for television. He has worked on everything from TV shows to PC gam…
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The Future is Spoken presents Rupal Patel as this week's guest. Rupal is the Founder and CEO of VocaliD, a voice Al company that creates unique synthetic voices. Unlike conventional methods, VocaliD's award-winning technology generates high-quality, natural-sounding voices within hours, not months. They leverage cutting-edge machine learning techni…
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The Future is Spoken presents Marco Pasqua as this week's guest. Marco is Co-founder of LIKE ventures and an award winning speaker and Entrepreneur. Starting with their own experiences, they end up discussing the act of accessibility and inclusion in Voice Design. Tune in Now! Conversation Highlights: [00:02:11]: 2008 Lay off which lead to a career…
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The Future is Spoken presents Maaike Coppens as this week's guest. Maaike is an international Conversation Design Expert, speaker and co-author of the Voice UX Workbook. With a successful background in linguistics and UX design, Maaike found conversational design the perfect blend. Over the last couple of years, Maaike has worked with award-winning…
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A futurist and pioneer of interactive, immersive and personalized storytelling, Shane Small squeezes every drop out of emerging technologies to create stories that take your breath away. Shane worked with the Snapchat Originals team, using their platform (AR, social, maps, messaging, gaming) to make mobile-first shows and experiences that are total…
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The Future is Spoken presents Greg Bennett as this week’s guest. Greg is Conversation Design Principal at Salesforce, leading the company’s first dedicated Conversation Design practice since its inception. As a linguist, Greg focuses his work on empowering businesses to create chatbots that feel natural and helpful, build user trust, and meet custo…
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Geoff Cook is a serial entrepreneur and public company CEO. He was on the board of The Meet Group (NASDAQ: MEET) since 2011 until its sale in 2020. Geoff sold the company for $500 million in September 2020. He started his first company from a Harvard dorm and sold it for millions of dollars at age 24 in the year 2002. He sold his second company for…
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"The Future is Spoken" presents Dr Maria Aretoulaki as this week's guest. Maria is a Voice First Veteran, having been designing Voice User Interfaces (VUIs) since 1996, long before Voice Assistants, but also before telephone self-service and Speech IVRs were mainstream. She got into Voice Design through a Post-Doc in Spoken Dialogue Management for …
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Today we have Bowen Mendelson, an Advertising Agency owner and Creative Director who's worked with brands like The Coca Cola Company, Orange Theory, BP, Quaker, Navy, Federal, Sears, Huggies, and many more. He will talk about the fundamentals of creative direction, where things have come since he started a couple of decades ago, and where technolog…
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The Future is Spoken presents Obaid Ahmed as this week's guest. Obaid is founder and CEO of Botmock, the leading chatbot design collaboration platform. Before Botmock, Obaid co-founded a design consultancy firm OAK where he led the technology and design teams to deliver over 400 projects. Today, Obaid concentrates on building on the success of Botm…
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Kate is a unique hybrid of an applied geographer, writer, and content culturalization strategist with a passion for global cultures and media technologies. With broad experience in the fields of geography, cartography, geopolitics and cross-cultural issues, Kate is a recognized thought leader in applying this knowledge to 'real world'​ business sol…
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The Future is Spoken presents Jeff Blankenburg as this week’s guest. Jeff spent the early part of his career in digital advertising, building websites for Victoria’s Secret, Abercrombie & Fitch, and Ford Motor Company, among others. He also spent 8 years at Microsoft, primarily as an evangelist for any new technology he could get his hands on. Toda…
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Sam has always been at the forefront of audio advertising and creativity, at its very start when Ricky Gervais returned to Xfm in 2001. He shared a voice booth with his producer Karl Pilkington. After a chat over tea in the shared kitchen, he decided to edit the links of this new show to cd’s for key agencies as promotion. Demand soon grew that he …
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The Future is Spoken presents Celene Osiecka as this week’s guest. Celene is Conversational Designer. She has been designing conversational interfaces using emerging technologies like chatbots, AI, natural language, speech recognition, and machine learning for the last fifteen years, deploying over 500 conversational interface deployments in the fi…
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The Future is Spoken presents Diana Deibel as this week’s guest. Diana is an experienced VUI Designer and the current Design Director at Chicago-based product design and strategy consultancy, Grand Studio, leading teams in conversation and product design. She’s the co-founder of both the VUI Design Slack channel and the Chicago chapter of the Ubiqu…
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The Future is Spoken presents Dr. Teri Fisher as this week’s guest. Dr. Fisher, dubbed “The Voice Doctor,” is an award-winning TEDx and keynote performer, physician, podcaster, author, educator, and leading authority on all things voice technology. A doctor by day and voice enthusiast by night is how Dr. Fisher describes himself. After using Amazon…
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The Future is Spoken presents Roger Kibbe as this week’s guest. Roger is currently a Senior Developer Evangelist for Viv Labs, the platform behind Samsung’s Bixby 2 voice engine. He works with executives, designers, and developers on voice and conversational AI strategy and execution. Roger says he loves technology but has some gripes with how we i…
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The Future is Spoken presents Renée Cummings as this week’s guest. Among many roles, Renée is a criminologist, criminal psychologist, AI ethicist, data activist, urban technologist, and international consultant. Renée specializes in therapeutic jurisprudence, urban AI, ethical AI adoption, diversity, equity, and inclusion in AI. She is also the Dat…
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The Future is Spoken presents Phillip Hunter as this week’s guest. Phillip is an expert in strategy, design, and AI-powered optimization. He is the founder of CCAI (Conversational Collaborative AI) Services and is part of the team behind Alexa. In this episode, Phillip discusses voice analytics and performance optimization techniques. Before anythi…
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We've got a fantastic guest on the latest episode - Shyamala Prayaga, product owner for Conversational AI and digital assistant at Ford Motor Co. Shyamala has a ton of voice experience to share - from her early award winning days on Amazon Alexa to her current role heading up the voice product team at Ford. Find out about The challenges of a more l…
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The Future is Spoken presents Hans van Dam as this week’s guest. Hans is the co-founder and CEO of the Conversation Design Institute, Amsterdam. It trains and certifies conversation designers from around the world. In this episode, Hans discusses the importance of writing for listenability. For Hans, writing for listenability means designing everyt…
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The Future is Spoken presents Ananya Sharan as this week’s guest. Ananya is a search and voice expert working as the product manager for Pandora’s Voice Mode, a mobile-only voice assistant that allows users to easily discover and listen to new music. In this episode, Ananya explores the rewards and challenges of working with voice assistant technol…
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