Posts by Paul Hickey
How To Listen To A Live Stream On A Voice Device
WATCH READ At Project Voice 2020, my friend QuHarrison and I talk to Ian Utile from ATTN.live about live streaming on voice devices like Alexa and Google Assistant, and how people can find live events and listen on Alexa. Paul Hickey, Founder / CEO / Lead Strategist at Data Driven Design, LLC and founder of The Voice Event,…
Read MoreHow To Build Google Actions With Templates
WATCH READ While I think the easiest and best way of building Google Actions is to use our WordPress plug-in, The Voice Designer (https://thevoicedesigner.com), there are ways to easily build Google Actions that have a little more functionality using Google Actions Templates. This video explains. Paul Hickey, Founder / CEO / Lead Strategist at Data Driven…
Read MoreHow To Voice Activate Your Event Website To Promote Your Event
WATCH READ Yet another solid use case for building Alexa Skills and Google Actions for your business, is to give your audience information about an upcoming event. A basic FAQ Voice App about your upcoming event is easy to build. I explain here in my presentation at Nashville Design Week’s “Designing For Voice.” Paul Hickey,…
Read MoreAlexa, The Classroom Teaching Assistant
WATCH READ In this video, my friend QuHarrison Terry and I sit down at Project Voice with Julie Daniel Davis, host of the Alexa In Education Podcast, to talk about how Alexa can help be an amazing classroom teaching assistant for all levels of education. Paul Hickey, Founder / CEO / Lead Strategist at Data Driven…
Read MoreHow Agencies Can Easily Incorporate Voice Into Their Client Offerings
WATCH READ I love building websites and voice apps. I believe that what differentiates me from my competition is that I build demos for prospective clients to actually experience before trying to sell them a product or service. This is why I love tools like WordPress, The Voice Designer and Voiceflow. In an interview with…
Read MoreHow To Build Targeted User Journeys With Voice
WATCH READ Our WordPress plug-in, The Voice Designer, available at Our WordPress plug-in, The Voice Designer, available at https://thevoicedesigner.com, allows anyone with a WordPress site to create a targeted user journey written in the brand’s voice to be created from the backend of their WordPress site and deployed to Alexa and Google Assistant. I call…
Read MoreHow Does Personalized Account Information Via Voice Devices Work?
WATCH READ I explain how voice devices like Alexa and Google Assistant can easily link with any account to voice activate pre-existing apps. Also, I explain how developers can build their own voice apps for Alexa with “account linking,” and what this means. Paul Hickey, Founder / CEO / Lead Strategist at Data Driven Design, LLC and…
Read MoreWhat Can Voice Based Apps Actually Do?
WATCH READ What can Alexa and Google Assistant actually do? In addition to just playing music, Netflix, YouTube videos and giving you weather updates, they can actually allow users to choose their own path in very in-depth personalized experiences. As a developer, you can build voice apps that allow your audience to do the following…
Read MoreThe Story Behind Voiceflow Being A Serious Business Solution For Prototyping
WATCH READ I was a guest on Voiceflow’s podcast not too long ago with my now good friend Mark Ammendolia from Voiceflow. In this video, Mark and I talk about how Voiceflow is becoming a serious business solution for prototyping and launching voice apps across all assistants. Paul Hickey, Founder / CEO / Lead Strategist…
Read MoreHow To Use Conversational AI And Voice Technology To Communicate
WATCH READ QuHarrison Terry and I sit down and talk to Nate Treloar, Founder of Orbita, at Project Voice 2020 in Chattanooga. The main topics of this video are how to use conversational artificial intelligence and voice technology to communicate – mainly in healthcare settings. Paul Hickey, Founder / CEO / Lead Strategist at Data Driven…
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