This Week In Voice

Guests: Shyamala Prayaga (Senior Software Product Manager, Conversational AI, NVIDIA), Victor Riparbelli (CEO, Synthesia), Molly Duggan (CEO, Molly Duggan Associates), Freddie Feldman (Director, Voice and Conversational Interfaces, Wolters Kluwer Health)

Stories for discussion:

1) SoundHound Raises $25M Weeks After Major Layoffs (Voicebot.ai) https://voicebot.ai/2023/01/24/soundhound-raises-25m-weeks-after-major-layoffs/

2) OpenAI Reportedly Tests ChatGPT Pro. Here's What We Know About The Paid Version (Mashable) https://mashable.com/article/ai-chatgpt-pro-openai

3) Interview With Alexa Fund's Paul Bernard (TechCrunch) https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/24/alexa-funds-paul-bernard-talks-openai-whats-catching-his-eye-and-remaining-relevant-as-amazon-restructures/

This Week In Voice

Season 8, Episode 1

Guests: Peter Suma (ABR), Joti Balani (Freshriver.ai), Jason Banks (nVoq)

Stories for discussion:

1) OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers On Less Than $2/Hour To Make ChatGPT Less Toxic (TIME) https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/

2) Collection Of Voice Data For Profit Raises Privacy Fears (ABC News) https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/collection-voice-data-profit-raises-privacy-fears/story?id=96363792

3) Artists File Class Action Lawsuit Against Stability AI, Midjourney, DeviantArt Over Generative AI Art (Voicebot.ai) https://voicebot.ai/2023/01/16/artists-file-class-action-lawsuit-against-stability-ai-midjourney-deviantart-over-generative-ai-art/

4) People Are Testing [ChatGPT] And Sharing Their Hilarious Results On Twitter (Uproxx) https://uproxx.com/culture/ten-funny-answers-people-got-from-chat-gpt-ai-and-shared-on-twitter/

This Week In Voice

Season 7, Episode 10

Guests: Noelle Silver (IBM), Mike Pappas (Modulate.ai), Alex Bordanova (Voicemod), Alya Yacoubi (Zaion)

Stories:

1a) The Latest Details On The Amazon Layoffs And The Impact On Alexa (Voicebot.ai) https://voicebot.ai/2022/11/15/the-latest-details-on-the-amazon-layoffs-and-the-impact-on-alexa/

1b) Alexa, Cut Costs! Amazon Begins Layoffs At Devices, Services Units (NY Post) https://nypost.com/2022/11/16/amazon-cutting-jobs-at-devices-services-units/

2) Digital Banking Didn't Kill Bank Branches - But Chatbots Will (Forbes) https://www.forbes.com/sites/ronshevlin/2022/11/14/digital-banking-didnt-kill-bank-branches-but-chatbots-will/?sh=7bcbf602c7f3

3) Why Salesforce Is Betting On Generative AI For Conversational Workflows (VentureBeat) https://venturebeat.com/ai/why-salesforce-is-betting-on-generative-ai-for-conversational-workflows/

4) Say Hello To Abena, A Local Voice Assistant By A Ghanaian Aiming To Rival Siri, Others (Face 2 Face Africa) https://face2faceafrica.com/article/say-hello-to-abena-a-local-voice-assistant-by-a-ghanaian-aiming-to-rival-siri-others

This Week In Voice

Season 7, Episode 9

Guests: Charles Cadbury (CEO, Say It Now), Colleen Fahey (US Managing Director, Sixieme Son), Gonen Ziv (Chief Revenue Officer, Onvego)

Stories:

1) TV AI Startup Disruptel Acquired By Samba TV (Voicebot.ai) https://voicebot.ai/2022/11/08/tv-ai-startup-disruptel-acquired-by-samba-tv/

2) Elon Musk Has Fired Twitter's 'Ethical AI' Team (WIRED) https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-ethical-ai-team/

3) Amazon Alexa Misinforms Tennesseans Of Polling Hours On Election Day (Daily Wire) https://www.dailywire.com/news/amazons-alexa-misinforms-tennesseans-of-polling-hours-on-election-day

4) Devialet's Ultra-Premium Smart Speaker Looks Like A Green Lantern Lamp (Screen Rant) https://screenrant.com/devialet-mania-smart-speaker-alexa-features-price/

This Week In Voice

Season 7, Episode 8

Guests: Kiran Kadekoppa (CTO and Co-Founder, HUEX), Susan Hura (Chief Design Officer, Kore.ai), Chetan Damani (CEO, Cashew.ai), Dylan Fox (CEO, AssemblyAI), Evan Macmillan (CEO, Gridspace)

Stories:

1) RAIN Debuts 'Ortho' Industrial Voice Assistant For Vehicle Repair (Voicebot.ai) https://voicebot.ai/2022/11/01/rain-debuts-ortho-industrial-voice-assistant-for-vehicle-repair/

2) Amazon's New Head Of Alexa Shares His Vision For The Future, Including New Shopping And Entertainment Features (Amazon)

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/devices/amazons-new-head-of-alexa-rohit-prasad

3) 'SiriSpy' iOS Bug Allowed Apps To Eavesdrop On Your Siri Conversations Before Fix (9to5Mac) https://9to5mac.com/2022/10/26/siri-eavesdropping-bug-ios-airpods/

4) How Technology Is Helping Decode Animal Language (The Swaddle) https://theswaddle.com/how-technology-is-helping-decode-animal-language/

This Week In Voice

Season 7, Episode 7

Guests: Martin Ramirez (CRO, WellSaid Labs), Nikola Mrksic (CEO, PolyAI), Mark Fosdike (CEO, Datch), Shridhar Marri (CEO, Senseforth)

Stories:

1) Voicebot.AI is 6 Years Old - Here Are 6 Ways The Industry Has Changed (Voicebot.AI) - https://voicebot.ai/2022/10/24/voicebot-is-6-years-old-here-are-6-ways-the-industry-has-changed/

2) Shutterstock to integrate OpenAI's DALL-E 2 and launch fund for contributor artists (TechCrunch) - https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/25/shutterstock-openai-dall-e-2/

3) Machines can craft essays. How should writing be taught now? (Inside Higher Ed) - https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/10/26/machines-can-craft-essays-how-should-writing-be-taught-now

4) Alexa predicts Philadelphia Phillies to win the World Series (WPVL) - https://6abc.com/philadelphia-phillies-world-series-houston-astros-alexa-prediction/12378560/

Bradley Metrock discusses the Women Leaders of Conversational AI, Class of 2023, how they will be honored at Project Voice 2023 (April 24-28, Chattanooga TN) and shares something noteworthy about each individual.

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Bradley Metrock discusses the Women Leaders of Conversational AI, Class of 2023, how they will be honored at Project Voice 2023 (April 24-28, Chattanooga TN) and shares something noteworthy about each individual.

This Week In Voice

Season 7, Episode 5

Guests:

Kat Giudes (Managing Director, TalkVia)

Benjamin Brown (VP Marketing, ConverseNow)

Brett Adler (Co-Founder, VoicePT)

Stories:

1) Bank of America's Erica tops 1 billion client interactions (Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/article/bofaml-technology-erica-idTRNIKBN2R71EI

2) Is It My Turn Yet? Teaching A Voice Assistant When To Speak (Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence) https://hai.stanford.edu/news/it-my-turn-yet-teaching-voice-assistant-when-speak

3) Google Permanently Parks Assistant Driving Mode (Voicebot.ai) https://voicebot.ai/2022/10/11/google-permanently-parks-assistant-driving-mode/

4) Fake Joe Rogan interviews fake Steve Jobs in an AI-powered podcast (Ars Technica): https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/10/fake-joe-rogan-interviews-fake-steve-jobs-in-an-ai-powered-podcast/

This Week In Voice

Season 7, Episode 4

Special AI Bill of Rights Edition

Guests: Zohaib Ahmed (CEO, Resemble.ai), Ram Menon (CEO, Avaamo), Rupal Patel (VP of Voice and Accessibility, Veritone)

Stories:

1a) Biden proposes new "Bill of Rights" to protect Americans from AI harms (Ars Technica): https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/10/biden-proposes-new-bill-of-rights-to-protect-americans-from-ai-snooping/

1b) Analysis: White House unveils 'AI bill of rights' as 'call to action' to rein in tool (Washington Post): https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/04/white-house-unveils-ai-bill-rights-call-action-rein-tool/

1c) Analysis: Biden's AI Bill of Rights Is Toothless Against Big Tech (WIRED): https://www.wired.com/story/bidens-ai-bill-of-rights-is-toothless-against-big-tech/

2) Secret function on Amazon Alexa helped me bust my cheating boyfriend (NY Post): https://nypost.com/2022/10/03/amazon-alexas-secret-function-helped-bust-cheating-boyfriend/