Dave Isbitski, Chief Evangelist for Amazon Alexa Despite a few technical gremlins at the start of the live show connecting Zoom to the studio, Dave was very patient while I fixed the issue and equally generous both with his time thereafter and his honest open answers.   Dave's quote below pretty much sums up my thinking about voicefirst for the next generation of the web. I feel like voice is the new HTML - Dave Isbitski Listen and subscribe to the podcast and please leave any feedback in the comments below. https://samtalks.tech/podcasts We talked about:

• Our first experiences with Alexa
• Using, discovering and creating skills with Amazon blueprint .i.e #VoiceFirst development
• Monetising skills with ISP (in-skill purchasing)
• Alexa conversations which is available soon. i.e skill to skill handoff of tasks to complete a scenario https://samtalks.tech/alexa-conversations
• When will Amazon start charging developers, like Apple, for their skills revenue and placement?
• What's the "killer skill" we're all waiting for?
• Why don't Alexa features rollout universally.
• What are the key challenges of localisation of Alexa into new countries?
• New Alexa voices both male and female
• Kids using Alexa and what behaviour is this generating. Politeness???
• The NEW Amazon Echo 5
• Why Alexa Guard is late in the UK
• Ring Integration
• Amazon Airpods and Amazon Phone???
• Alexa for Hospitality and Alexa for Business
• Alexa Auto
• V-commerce and Privacy

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