VoiceOS Briefing

VoiceOS Briefing

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VoiceOS Briefing episodes

  • Is Cortana a productivity assistant or a personal one?
    Cortana has among their featured skills like tips on saving money, location reminder, check your email, send texts, etc. I was surprised not to see more skills directed at productivity. It would make a lot of sense for them to present themselves as the enterprise assistant, effectively repurposing Cortana as the workplace assistant more than a personal one. According to an article, the assistant is being redesigned to provide a more refine user experience for consumers, promoting a typing based-experience rather than a verbal one. This is being referred to as conversation canvas by Microsoft. The canvas is meant to be a thread with all you have said in the past. This is not news for Android phone users with Google Assistant since they already have this service for some time now. Microsoftwill be looking to reposition it to other areas of Windows where it can become a more productivity-focused assistant rather than a personal one. The trail that left the lost of smartphone war can still be savored by the Redmond company. Having lost that war, Microsoft is struggling to position in the assistant space specially without a smart speaker.

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    3 min
  • Coming events in voice technologies
    If you are a voice enthusiast, might that be a developer, designer, entrepreneur or an investor you should be aware of the events and conferences, to flourish ideas and connect with fellow voice first enthusiasts. In this episode we are bringing you the most important events in voice that you need to know. Disclaimer: we are not sponsored by or in association of any kind with any of the organizers of the conferences listed here.

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    3 min
  • Questions you need to answer for an effective voice strategy

    What are the questions you need to answer for a effective voice strategy and sound identity?

    When a client comes to you would you advise them to be as disciplined visually as sonically?

    So here is 3 things you should have into account for your sound / voice strategy.

    Find the full transcript at voicefirstweekly.com of all of our episodes with references.

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    3 min
  • Voice-first: mobile vs smart speakers
    From stories with kids expecting Alexa to tell them the weather at a camping, to one yelling Bike stop! We can infer that voice is heading for ubiquitousness.

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    3 min
  • Siri at the British parliament

    The British secretary of defense was interrupted by Siri while delivering a statement to the parliament. Funny isn’t.

    The response of the twitterverse was that this was a high security concern that he has a voice activated device with the listen on all the time in parliament sensitive meetings. Would it make sense that parliaments have a smart speaker/intelligent assistant in their meetings? I can see that will happen eventually. For sure we’ll have first to sort out the security concerns and privacy issues. It might sound too sci-fi now, but I don’t see it that far away.

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    3 min
  • Generation V
    Every once in a while, I see a tweet of a parent stating something like my kid was trying to talk to Alexa in the amusement park or a kid asking for the weather in a tent at camp or concerned with Alexa being alone in the house. Are kids that interact with smart speakers already living in a voice-first world?

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    4 min
  • Jurassic World review
    We played the free version of Jurassic World and it’s really good. It’s voice actors, it’s engaging, letting you feeling you’re inside a game. You are prompted fairly frequently, keeping the attention at all times, since you need to know what to answer. However for me some of the decisions felt light, it had little to no weight in the course of the story. I went back and chose differently just to try this. But the biggest hurdle for me was how fast the free version ends, leaving me with no desire to continue to the premium version.

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    3 min
  • Google available in Spain and Mexico
    Google announced that users can now query their assistant in Spanish. It was already available in the Assistant in Android phones. And now, Google Home and Google Home Mini are also available in Spanish in both Mexico and Spain. We ask it “Cual es el clima (What’s the weather)” and it replied with the weather information in English, presumably because my default language is English. They also introduced continued conversations, where you can ask more than one question without saying the invocation word.

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    3 min
  • The possibilities of voice for city governments
    I'm gonna play near future oracle here. It seems to me that in time it makes a lot of sense that every city has a voice assistant in every main attraction area where visitors and locals can ask questions about the city and the different services that are link to the government. It would be really useful for tourists finding their way around the city, asking for schedules of theaters, city hall, museums.

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    3 min

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