Inside VOICE

Today you'll hear James Poulter interview one of our sponsors for VOICE Summit, Voices.com.  You'll hear the CEO of Voices.com, Dave Ciccarelli talk about his background in audio engineering and how he created the number once source for voiceover talent, why voiceover talent is a growing industry, why humanity and emotion is important for the voice technology community and how to decide on a voice for your company's brand.  Enjoy and be sure to check them out at the summit later this month. 

Here's another episode of The Voices Behind VOICE series hosted by Keri Roberts In these episodes, you'll get to hear from our attendees of the VOICE Summit. Each guest is either creating something within the voice space, looking for ways to use voice in their business or investing in companies within the voice space. Listen in for about 15 minutes as each person talks about how they got into technology, what they're creating or wanting to create within the voice space, why they're attending VOICE and who they're looking to connect with plus why voice is important.

This episode features Luciana Morais an AI Conversational UX Writer who talks about how to get into voice and why voice is a great opportunity for creatives.

Did this person peak your interest? Reach out to them online and at the event and find ways you can help one another in the world of VOICE.

Matt Ware is the Head of Performance and Lachlan Pottenger is the Creative Director of FIRST Voice (also one of this year's sponsors of VOICE). In this episode, you'll hear them talk about how voice is viewed and used in Australia, why Google Assistant is more dominant than Amazon Alexa in Australia, how their company helped Officeworks increase their retail numbers with voice, why conversational design is important for retail voice experiences, what to expect from their talk at the summit and why they think voice is important.

In this episode founder of Voice Summit and Modev speaks with Joti Balani the founder of Freshriver.ai - Freshriver is an enterprise bot creator focused on bringing emotional intelligence to large scale businesses.

She identifies in this interview the problems with bots and why many in the early days failed, and the learnings they have identified at Freshriver to fix this.

Drawing on her extensive expertise as a marketing lead and product developer Pete and Joti discuss her insights into this fast paced and ever evolving space.

Today, Voice Summit Programming and Content Director, Janice Mandel, welcomes Ahmed Bouzid to the Inside VOICE podcast. Dr. Ahmed Bouzid is Founder and CEO of Witlingo, a McLean, Virginia, based startup that builds products and solutions for Voice First devices and platforms, such as Amazon’s Alexa, Google’s Assistant, Microsoft’s Cortana, and Samsung’s Bixby. Prior to Witlingo, Dr. Bouzid was Head of Alexa's Smart Home Product at Amazon and VP of Product and Innovation at Angel.com. Dr. Bouzid is also co-founder and Director of the Ubiquitous Voice Society, a non-profit organization dedicated to the mission of evangelizing the emerging voice interface. He holds 12 patents in the Speech Recognition and Natural Language Processing field, and is a visiting lecturer at Weber State University. He was also recognized as a “Speech Luminary” by Speech Technology Magazine.

Nate Treloar is the COO and President of Orbita (also one of this year's sponsors of VOICE). In this episode, you'll hear him talk about how his company is transforming digital healthcare through the application of next-generation voice, chatbots and other conversational AI technologies. You'll also hear him discuss what it means for voice now that Amazon's Alexa is HIPAA eligible, how voice can help seniors aging in place, why only 29% of medical answers given by a virtual assistant voice enabled technology could cause harm if implemented and how businesses can start thinking about adjusting their current content to be voice ready.

Today's podcast episode is from a recent Facebook Live interview done by Pete Erickson, the owner of Modev and the creator of the VOICE Summit. You'll hear him chat with David Box of Macadamian who will also be speaking at the VOICE Summit in July. Enjoy!

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Today's podcast episode is from a recent Facebook Live interview done by Pete Erickson, the owner of Modev and the creator of the VOICE Summit. You'll hear him chat with Alex Kaplunovich, VP of Engineering, Advanced Technology Experts who will also be speaking at the VOICE Summit in July. Enjoy! 

Today's podcast episode is from a recent Facebook Live interview done by Pete Erickson, the owner of Modev and the creator of the VOICE Summit. You'll hear him chat with Jen Lehner of Front Row Media who will also be speaking at the VOICE Summit in July. Enjoy!

Here's another episode of The Voices Behind VOICE series hosted by Keri Roberts. In these episodes, you'll get to hear from our attendees of the VOICE Summit. Each guest is either creating something within the voice space, looking for ways to use voice in their business or investing in companies within the voice space. Listen in for about 15 minutes as each person talks about how they got into technology, what they're creating or wanting to create within the voice space, why they're attending VOICE and who they're looking to connect with plus, why voice is important.

This episode features Founder Joel Wilson and VP Sarah Andrew Wilson, of Matchbox.io, helping businesses find their voice and the creators of the top Alexa game skill - Question of the Day.

Did this guest peak your interest? Reach out to them online and at the event and find ways you can help one another in the world of VOICE.