Anyone can create a voice skill or flash briefing and on this episode, you'll hear Kiki, a former lawyer and now writer who created a flash briefing called Black History Everyday. You'll hear her talk about how she started in voice, why she wanted to create this skill, how it's growing and connecting communities, what she hopes to achieve with it and why she's encouraging everyone to just give creating a skill or flash briefing a try.

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Voice isn't just in the US and Andreas Cooper, the Director and Founder of Smart Voice Systems and Futures, is here to tell us about what's going on in the voice world in New Zealand, plus how he's helping the hospitality industry with voice, the stats he's seeing and how he sees the industry growing.

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How do you take a voice project and turn it into a scalable voice program? Brandon Kaplan, the CEO of Skilled Creative, talks about his company's process in scaling voice experiences, which data is most important to use when scaling, plus why creative matters most and what makes his agency unique.

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There are a lot of elements to making a voice experience great, but have you ever thought about the sound quality and engineering of the sound? Eugene Kim, a NYC based production sound mixer and audio post engineer has worked with clients that include Netflix, PBS, National Geographic, Univision and more. On this episode he talks about why the quality of sound is important, how he goes about getting the sound just right, what equipment you can use and why sound excites him so much.

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Security is a concern among consumers when it comes to voice. On this episode, Keri Roberts interviews Matt Vaillancourt, the Senior Director of Business Sales at D-Link who has been working in the security space for many years and here he talks about actionable steps consumers and developers can take to make voice tech safe and secure.

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Data matters when it comes to voice and marketing. Brandee Sanders, the Director of Marketing Operations Appetize talks about what data really matters most, what type of research you should do before, during and after creating a voice skill, and why voice data is important to track and understand to improve your voice skills.

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What if you could create a business off of your voice skill similar to an app? Gordon Collier is doing just that with his recruiting skill, My Career Fit. Learn how he found a need to a problem, how he created the skill, how he's gaining attention and creating a business with it.

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We are entering into what our guest today, Dave Kemp of Oaktree Products calls, the Aural Attention Economy. Dave talks with Keri Roberts about why we're headed into a more audio based world, how podcasts, voice, hearables and search will work together, the affect hearables have on our brain, and how brands should think differently about developing for hearables vs an at home voice device.

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Samsung Bixby is a leader in the voice world. Roger Kibbe, the Senior Developer Evangelist of “Viv” Labs talks on this episode with Keri Roberts about what makes Samsung unique amongst its competitors, the new things recently launched including Bixby Views, Natural Language Categories, and Bixby Templates, plus how to get involved in Bixby Devjam.

Learn more about Bixby here: www.bixbydevelopers.com

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Be a part of VOICE Summit 2020 by submitting your proposal to speak here by January 31, 2020!

If you loved VOICE Summit 2019, you're going to definitely want to be a part of VOICE 2020. Today the Founder and Owner of VOICE Summit, Pete Erickson talks about the evolution of VOICE Summit, the dates, location and what to expect and how you can get involved now.

Be a part of VOICE Summit 2020 by submitting your proposal to speak here by January 31, 2020!