iOS 14 Siri redesign

AirPod Pro Spatial Audio

Google Voice Match for... birds

5 Levels of Conversational AI: 2020 Update

Sarah van der Land, Senior Digital innovation Advisor at NPO

Check out the Dutch demo for BNN Vara at this webpage

The Voicecast explores the evolving world of voice interfaces. Its the easiest way to stay current with the developments and hear experiences from the most important players in the market. Your hosts: Maarten Lens-FitzGerald and Sam Warnaars.

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In the news, we tackle good insights on the Chinese market from Lawerence Lin as well as the 1B investment in voice by Alibaba. We also talk about the voice authentication efforts from Google. Will you trust that for purchases? It is such a convenience.

1) Google is working on voice confirmation for purchases with Assistant

2) Alibaba to invest $1B on AI integration with smart speakers

3) Smart Speaker Goes Local in China

Bart Bellefroid, product manager Sites, Search en Bots at Rabobank

Hey, Google. Talk to Rabobank (ik works in english AND Dutch)

The Voicecast explores the evolving world of voice interfaces. Its the easiest way to stay current with the developments and hear experiences from the most important players in the market.

Maarten Lens-FitzGerald and Sam Warnaars

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This is a good example of a complete execution from strategy, to the concept, to production and marketing. And they managed to take advantage of smart positioning within the standard voice categories. Find out how. To top it off Michiel Muller was runner up in the Marketing Talent of the year awards last week.

1) Websites read out loud by Google Assistant

2) Mozilla's Project Voice adds Frisian

3) Corona-19 effects, voice apps, and events

Michiel Muller, Digital coördinator bij Donald Duck. Sanoma.

Hey, Google. Praat met *de* Donald Duck

The Voicecast explores the evolving world of voice interfaces. Its the easiest way to stay current with the developments and hear experiences from the most important players in the market.

Maarten Lens-FitzGerald (www.lens-fitzgerald.com) and Sam Warnaars (Merkle)

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We discuss the news that Facebook will pay you the record your voice and will UK Voice users lose their GDPR protection? Plus: what about the Chinese marketing campaign for baby milk which gave away 10.000 dedicated smart speakers preprogrammed with 1200 baby-related questions? The new marketing campaign tool?

1) Why milk formula brand JinLingGuan made an AI baby expert smart speaker

2) Facebook will now pay you for your voice recordings

3) Exclusive: Google users in UK to lose EU data protection

Piet van Dosselaar, Product Owner CBS Voice Assistent at Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek

Hey, Google. Praat met het CBS

The Voicecast explores the evolving world of voice interfaces. Its the easiest way to stay current with the developments and hear experiences from the most important players in the market.

Maarten Lens-FitzGerald and Sam Warnaars (Merkle)

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The news we discuss is a combination of Project Zilver research results, entertaining Super Bowl commercials with Voice in them, and lastly we discuss the new Meena chatbot. IS it really something to look out for or is it PR?

Media and adoption: The Voice super bowl ads Amazon

Reactions

Google

Budweiser Ca

Original Budweiser commercial

News: Meena, the next generation of Bots

What twitter says

What the completion says

Project Zilver report

Open Voice: The Enterprise Edition

Lieneke Grollé, innovation lead at KRO/NCRV

'Hey Google, praat met de slimste mens'

The Voicecast explores the evolving world of voice interfaces. Its the easiest way to stay current with the developments and hear experiences from the most important players in the market.

Maarten Lens-FitzGerald and Sam Warnaars (Merkle).

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For one week, Chattanooga Tennessee was the hotspot for people in Voice. Its not often you have a meetup of 3000 voice enthusiasts, with all the key players attending. We were there and well walk through the different days and will share memorable moments, interesting tid-bits and a selection of insights we gained throughout the week.

- Speech Markdown by Mark Tucker (and SSML.guru)

- Nick Schwab, Alexa Champion

- Tom Hewiston of Labworks

- Dave Kemp and Andy Bellavia

- Junk Skills and Squatting

- Cathy Pearl (Google) videos in a list

- MD Teri Fishers Voice Marketing Funnel using Alexa Flash Briefings

- Maarten Lens-FitzGerald on Project Zilver

- Bret Kinsellas global map of assistants

- Brian Roemmele

- Adam Cheyer interview in Voicebot podcast

- General Magic documentary

- Jeff Adams, part of the original Alexa Team

The Voicecast explores the evolving world of voice interfaces. Its the easiest way to stay current with the developments and hear experiences from the most important players in the market. Your hosts: Maarten Lens-FitzGerald and Sam Warnaars (Merkle).

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As this is the prediction show we kick with our favorite prediction picked from the Voicebot 2020 prediction list.

46 predictions from Voice pro's

From Apple to OSRAM; From Displays to Devices: a Pre-CES Year-End Review of Smart Glasses.

Timing Uitzendteam start als eerste met Google Assistent

Explanation page with video

Rik Verbrugge, Innovation Manager Timing

"Hey Google, praat met Timing Uitzendteam"

The Voicecast explores the evolving world of voice interfaces. Its the easiest way to stay current with the developments and hear experiences from the most important players in the market. Your hosts: Maarten Lens-FitzGerald and Sam Warnaars (Merkle).

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We discuss wifi calling, voice ads and what is next after skills and actions. Don't miss the Voice app in review and how wrong it can go.

- 220 million smart speakers will be used to make calls to landlines or mobile phone numbers by 2024

- The Next Model for Voice: How Platforms And Builders Can Work Together

- Pandora launches interactive voice ads

Nina Zonneveld, Business Development Manager, ReadSpeaker

Ok, Google start translate mode

The Voicecast explores the evolving world of voice interfaces. Its the easiest way to stay current with the developments and hear experiences from the most important players in the market. Your hosts: Maarten Lens-FitzGerald and Sam Warnaars (Merkle).

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Talpa is one of those companies who truly believes in Voice and has spent the past year doing a lot of research. Jeroen talks the about the importance of voice for a media company and shares some stats along the way.

- Einstein Voice announcements at Salesforce Dreamforce

- Sonos acquires EU Voice Startup Snips

- PEW Research: Concern, confusion and lack of Control

Jeroen de Bakker, Director Product & Growth Talpa Network at/of Talpa Network

Ok Google, talk to Disney

The Voicecast explores the evolving world of voice interfaces. Its the easiest way to stay current with the developments and hear experiences from the most important players in the market. Your hosts: Maarten Lens-FitzGerald and Sam Warnaars (Merkle).

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- Almost no one is buying Google smart speakers anymore

- Microsoft Cortana Pivot Highlights Evolving Role of Voice-Based Computing

- Hey Siri, Add to Walmart: Introducing a New Shortcut for Online Grocery

- Also mentioned

Vera Rensink, Business developer Bol.com

Hey google praat met bol.com

The Voicecast explores the evolving world of voice interfaces. Its the easiest way to stay current with the developments and hear experiences from the most important players in the market.

Maarten Lens-FitzGerald and Sam Warnaars. (Merkle).

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