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By Lauren Johnson
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The podcast currently has 14 episodes available.
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Episode 11 with Joshua Montgomery, Founder of Mycroft AI, the world's largest leading open source voice assistant
One of the few entrepreneurs in the United States to build a gigabit fiber network from scratch, Joshua brings more than 15 years of entrepreneurial experience to the Mycroft project. Joshua’s previous project, Wicked Broadband, has been featured in Wired, ArsTechnica, and Forbes. He is a firm supporter of the open source movement and committed to an open future for AI.
As a product manager for the Autonomous Digital Assistant, Shyamala currently leads the company-wide Ford's Autonomous Digital Assistant innovation for voice and chatbots by owning the roadmap and overall vision and working with cross-functional teams to bring that vision to reality.
She is a self-driven evangelist for UX and voice technology and recognizes the societal and cultural benefits of voice tech evolution. She possesses the insight and knowledge that comes with experience and leadership from her technical, development, and design roles. Her design and research work is presented nationally and internationally to general and field-specific audiences, and she has 18 years of experience designing for mobile, web, desktop, and smart TV interfaces.
Shyamala has more than six years of experience designing voice interfaces for Connected Home Experience, Automotive, and Wearables. Publications: Her work on research into usability, accessibility, speech recognition, multimodal voice user interfaces, and user interfaces for research and educational use cases has been published internationally, and her interviews have been published with several magazines and podcasts, including Forbes, the healthy code, Automotive, and TU-Auto magazines.
Episode 9 with Alexa W.
Team from Voice Spark Live - Nick Sawka, Emily Banzhaf
About Emily
Emily is a conversation designer, voice designer, one of the hosts of Voice Spark Live, and a member of the Open Voice Network, working to develop standards and ethical guidelines for voice experiences. She was part of the winning team of the Digital Assistant Academy's Hackabot. Before transitioning to the voice field, Emily was a professional violinist, performing all over the world with various ensembles.
About Nick
Nicholas was recently brought on at Wanderword as their Chief
A must listen: One family's story of how the Alexa wake word turned their world upside down. Warning may be sensitive content for a younger audience
Alexa M shares her experience living with the name Alexa as an adult
A unique podcast episode with Jeremy Vine and Tim Johns of the BBC!
(with permisson)
The podcast currently has 14 episodes available.