The Information released today an article echoed by TechCrunch reporting numbers revealing that very few owners of Alexa-powered devices use them for shopping. Small stats on this and the question: are we gonna continue seeing these types of articles based on the Is the technology there yet for voice? I think we will. Join the debate on Twitter and share your opinion with the voice-first community,

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Lately I have been hearing a lot of voice only or voice and, this is my take on why voice first is about the interface and not the only medium.

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Google has an announcement in their Google Actions on Google about repurposing android mobile apps into actions. We reflect on it.

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An interesting and simple use case of an Alexa skill

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Snapchat launched two days ago new lenses that respond to voice commands. Lenses are animations on top of your photos and videos in the snapchat mobile app. While the company has offered lenses that involve audio before, this is the first time it has created lenses that actually recognize words. What does this means and why is a trend to follow.

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The duality between Voice and Visual interfaces basically comes down to age old question of visual communication versus audio communication. “Language need not have started in a spoken modality; sign language may have been the original language. This shift is leading companies to ask the question of whether they should continue to invest in the visual interface or should budgets shift to voice?

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New ways to interact with users from skills

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@hculbertson tweeted during the weekend that the concept of jobs to be done about shortcuts got her thinking about cares to be given in voice, and that got me thinking.

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Hello there, I got asked some deal on voice summit how we put our flash briefing on Google Assistant. It’s not as straightforward as in Alexa, and it require some coding, but it can be done! So today’s episode is gonna be a little meta and we are gonna talk about the tools and processes we follow to produce VoiceFirst Weekly content. 

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Voice summit 2018 held this week in Newark, NJ

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