WATCH READ What is Cathy Pearl of Google most excited about in voice technology? Great question by my partner QuHarrison Terry at Project Voice 2020. Overall, it’s how voice helps accessibility and inclusion. From a cool voice transcription app available on Android devices called Live Transcribe, to helping people with mobility issues or muscular dystrophy…

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WATCH READ Imagine a world where you can ask Alexa for basic information about first aid. What will help heal my sunburn? What medicines work best for heartburn or acid reflux, etc.? Now imagine a world where patients can ask Alexa to call the on-call nurse because they need to go to the bathroom, need…

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WATCH READ Nate Treloar, CEO of Orbita, tells QuHarrison Terry and I, how Orbita got involved working on some of the first Alexa Skills in Healthcare – partnering with the Mayo Clinic and others. This interview took place at Project Voice 2020. Paul Hickey, Founder / CEO / Lead Strategist at Data Driven Design, LLC and founder…

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WATCH READ In this sit down interview at Project Voice 2020, QuHarrison Terry and I speak to Julie Davis, who at the time was director of instructional technology and innovation at Chattanooga Christian School in Chattanooga, TN. Davis is an Alexa Champion, and the host of Voice In Education Podcast. She is a proponent of…

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WATCH READ Nate Treloar of Orbita, who built some of the very first Alexa Skills for healthcare companies and the Mayo Clinic, stopped by the Data Driven Design booth at Project Voice 2020 to talk to QuHarrison Terry and I about why Voice Applications are perfect for the healthcare industry. Paul Hickey, Founder / CEO…

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WATCH READ Daniel Hill sat down with QuHarrison Terry and I at Project Voice 2020 and had an interesting discussion about how he and his wife use an Alexa Skill to communicate with each other about whether or not their cat has been fed yet, so they don’t overfeed the cat. But this isn’t a…

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WATCH READ When you talk to people at Google or Amazon who work on voice technology and voice user interface design for Google Assistant or Alexa, and ask them why they are passionate about voice technology, you start to see a similar pattern. Many people talk about how voice tech should make things easier for…

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WATCH READ QuHarrison Terry and I had a great conversation with Daniel Hill at Project Voice 2020 about taking content from Instagram and creating an exclusive version for Alexa’s Echo Show devices. Imagine a premium offering that extends Instagram onto Alexa. This is absolutely possible right now and 2021 is ripe for some influencers to…

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WATCH READ I speak to Cathy Pearl, head of conversational design at Google, at Project Voice, about what she’s excited about in Voice in 2020. She mentions Google’s Project Euphonia, a Google Research initiative focused on helping people with atypical speech be better understood. The approach is centered on analyzing speech recordings to better train…

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