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"videos can be a very effective way to use high production visuals in your interactive canvas game for the Google Assistant." - Leon Nicholls Sources: sync audio to interactive canvas games: https://www.google.com/appserve/mkt/p/AFnwnKVPHA37aacjuRuUTq-bkc2BxHoEdq2FLew6ruZNuQHJrREVi_bx7FTbceYduOMid-6aXuqmLVwK5p92A-F4UgS-2lDwF0ueaUWdMz_PqjKD3GBvX3xDR4IlZYUrTid73Ce_vvyhIFARZ49immhEGvYsRhDF2aFxWcgxC-Vwv9zSoBRXw4nEIDGOcHZ5e3ZEbBwZ61uRm2dv9HBDWbMYNLPNFyJfBLaPGAkTDFlDZWcdqjmYqPyP622IzYHODwl4uYKC5BEcGBcSNknjAN_hkwb_uf9-Xw add video loops to interactive canvas: https://www.google.com/appserve/mkt/p/AFnwnKV5Dnjymoj9OCI2hUEtse6zMs2Gii3oCy4wPzvHC34f0_8K_CX8aYlTcv176M0WfPZuqU99dMbGIzKLQEsPZRdvRvoA9n2BZGftQgQRgzOjRW_WjiobfzxUdI9rrvtbC1PGz80FWCeR-LopFU7OZ8H3DbYcrrr_0_11XSbUa7F5vc9BPQEmYLihqUqSvtf9ob5DBzaxZ3L_GnsmXGa8nzkG-5H0QPGAlR732RrQZ04aKUyH6T8-3-1jVak4eKUzEim6JeeVL-mfUa06-sauVqt3xfscgs6u

"Interpreter Mode comes to iOS and Android, making it easier to converse somewhat seamlessly across language barriers."

"Hey Google, be my [insert language of choice here] translator,"  Source: Wired - https://www.wired.com/story/google-assistant-can-now-translate-on-your-phone/

1. Echo hides Christmas Alexa delivery notifications from November 17th until Christmas. 2. Cathy Pearl VUI shortcomings: * Publis Spaces * Privacy * Text Preference * Discomfort speaking to a computer. 3. Phil Sheen - authentication in a world without keyboards.

"Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG) announced today that its customers can now use the Chipotle skill for Alexa to reorder their favorite Chipotle meals for delivery or pickup. To celebrate the reorder skill and the company reaching seven million enrollments, Chipotle is giving away Amazon Echo Dots to all of its existing Chipotle Rewards members named Alexa.

To get started, download the Amazon Alexa app, enable the Chipotle skill, link your Chipotle profile and reorder your go-to Chipotle meal. It's as simple as: "Alexa, tell Chipotle to reorder my favorite for delivery."

"We always strive to introduce additional access points in the Chipotle ordering experience and overall digital ecosystem," said Nicole West, Vice President of Digital Strategy and Product Management at Chipotle. "With this new skill for Alexa, our customers can get their favorite Chipotle orders delivered straight to their door in the most convenient way possible – all they need to do is ask."

Additionally, Chipotle has also rolled out its own artificial intelligence-generated voice assistants to all 2,500 restaurants. The system is designed to reduce friction in the restaurants so that customers can go through the entire ordering process effortlessly and employees can focus on providing the strongest possible guest experience in the restaurants. The voice automation provides the option to pay ahead and the ability to skip the line and go straight to the digital pickup shelves or drive through the Chipotlane to collect the order."

Source: Chipotle: https://newsroom.chipotle.com/2019-11-21-Chipotle-Announces-Alexa-Reordering-Skill-By-Giving-Away-Echo-Dots-To-Rewards-Members-Named-Alexa

Today's episode from Hilary Hayes. Originally discovered on LinkedIn. Originally posted on medium. "Today, UX and UI designers can download asset packs to modularly build interfaces... However, voice experiences lack the established design patterns... We need to start centralizing and standardizing the practice...documenting and sharing methods for visualizing voice interactions and conversation mapping will strengthen the voice design ecosystem, making it easier for more unique perspectives to join the conversation - leading to greater potential for success for all. The more people that jump in and debate emerging conventions, the more that we can iterate and improve." Source: Medium - “This Is What A Voice Experience Looks Like” by Hilary Hayes https://link.medium.com/SsqJAVLig2

From the book Ubiquitous Voice: Essays from the Field edited by Lisa Falkson. "Over the next five years, we’re likely to see dozens of devices in our homes embedded with microphones. Today, the Echo, Home, and HomePod are gaining a lot of prominence and third party hardware makers such as iHome and iDevices have announced devices that will embed Alexa and Google Assistant in their products. The embedding of these AI assistants has spilled beyond the smart speaker to many different connected devices... Hardware makers and brands that haven’t yet implemented voice interaction into their products are asking themselves whether they too should be introducing this capability. The calculation is between whether voice is a “passing fad” or whether the cost of adding voice will provide enough incremental value to maintain market share or the price of the product." Source: “Thinking About Adding Voice Capabilities to Your Product? Consider This” by Leor Grebler https://link.medium.com/gHecKuP7f2

Pew Research Center Survey 1. Smart speaker ownership varies across demographic groups. 2. just over half of smart speaker owners are at least somewhat concerned about the amount of data collected by these devices. 3. Americans who own smart speaker devices have mixed views on whether it is important for this technology to personalize their preferences. 4. Americans are wary of data from smart speakers being used in criminal investigations. 5. Some owners try to be polite when addressing their smart speakers. Sources: Pew Research: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/11/21/5-things-to-know-about-americans-and-their-smart-speakers/ Today: https://www.today.com/health/should-you-be-polite-your-smart-speakers-why-many-people-t169365

"in the old days of corporate America and assistant would bring you coffee. Today the assistant is Alexa or Google or some other voice assistant, and they don't directly bring you coffee... Yet" "over 30% of US adults now have at least one smart speaker, 60% have used a voice assistant on a smartphone, and the market penetration continues to grow. currently people use their voice assistance for a lot of music playing, alarm setting in general queries. Another trend is occurring in parallel to the growth of voice assistance, and that is the market for ordering ahead for food to go." Source: voicebot & Todd mozer (CEO @Sensory) - https://voicebot.ai/2019/12/07/can-your-assistant-deliver/

Do voice assistant users prefer human voices over synthetic voices and if so, by how much? Source: what consumers want in voice app design and empirical study from November 2019. A research collaboration by: voicebot.ai & voices.com & pulselabs Report - https://voicebot.ai/what-consumers-want-in-voice-app-design-2019/

International expansion of Alexa in skill purchasing to Italy, France, and Spain. Voicebot: https://voicebot.ai/2019/12/02/amazon-brings-alexa-skills-monetization-to-france-italy-and-spain/ Amazon Developer: https://developer.amazon.com/it-IT/blogs/alexa/alexa-skills-kit/2019/11/in-skill-purchasing-isp-now-available-in-france-italy-and-spain