In this episode, I spoke with Shyamala Prayaga from Ford.  She is the Product Owner for Ford’s Autonomous Digital Assistant. Shyamala has more than 18 years of experience designing for mobile, web, desktop, and Smart TV interfaces. Six of these have been spent designing voice interfaces for Connected Home Experience, Automotive, and Wearables. 

She has done extensive research into usability, accessibility, speech recognition, multimodal voice user interfaces, and user interfaces for research and educational use cases that have been published internationally. Shyamala is an active Ambassador for the Open Voice Network, bringing the value of standards to the multi-platform, multi-device, multi-use world of voice assistance.

Here’s how you can learn more about Shyamala’s Digital Assistant Academy You can also find her on Linkedin and Twitter.

I am very excited to announce that I will be launching a course on “Sound’s Power and Influence in Marketing” in early 2021 where we’ll be discussing what sound is and where it came from, the origins of advertising, advertising today and predictions for the future, sound’s role in decision making and buying power, and how our brains process sounds to create choice and reaction.  To sign up for early details, go to www.soundinmarketing.com or follow me on all the socials.

For inquiries on sonic branding development or consultations, you can find me at Dreamr Productions.  That’s www.dreamrproductions.com, Linkedin and Facebook.  You can also email me at [email protected]. 

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This episode was produced by Dreamr Productions and hosted, written, and edited by me, Jeanna Isham.  

Let’s make this world of sound more intriguing, more unique, and more and more on brand.