A Meeting of the Minds Last week, I made my annual trek to Chatanooga, Tennessee to gather with a wide variety of Voice technology enthusiasts at the Alexa Conference. Along with the seismic growth of smart speakers and voice assistant adoption, the attendees grew quite dramatically too, as we went from roughly 200 people last… Continue reading The Alexa Conference 2019: From Phase One to Phase Two
Category: Hearables
Jobs-to-be-Done and the Golden Circle
It's about the Job, not the Product There are two concepts that I've been thinking about lately to apply back to FuturEar. The first is the framework known as "Jobs-to-be-Done." I've touched on it briefly in previous posts in regards to how it applies to voice technology and the mobile app economy, but it's a… Continue reading Jobs-to-be-Done and the Golden Circle
Capping Off Year One with my AudiologyOnline Webinar
A Year's Work Condensed into One Hour Last week, I presented a webinar through the continuing education website, AudiologyOnline, for a number of audiologists around the country. The same week the year prior, I launched this blog. So, for me, the webinar was basically a culmination of the past year's blog posts, tweets and videos… Continue reading Capping Off Year One with my AudiologyOnline Webinar
Hearing Aid Use Cases are Beginning to Grow
The Next Frontier In my first post back in 2017, I wrote that the inspiration for creating this blog was to provide an ongoing account of what happens after we connect our ears to the internet (via our smartphones). What new applications and functionality might emerge when an audio device serves as an… Continue reading Hearing Aid Use Cases are Beginning to Grow
The State of Smart Assistants + Healthcare
Last week, I was fortunate to travel to Boston to attend the Voice of Healthcare Summit at Harvard Medical School. My motivation for attending this conference was to better understand how smart assistants are currently being implemented into the various segments of our healthcare system and to learn what's on the horizon in… Continue reading The State of Smart Assistants + Healthcare
10 Years after the App Store, what’s Next?
What's Next? As we celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the App store this week, it seems only natural that we begin wondering what the next 10 years will look like. What modalities, devices, interfaces and platforms will rise to the top of our collective preferences? There's clearly an abundance of buzzwords that are thrown… Continue reading 10 Years after the App Store, what’s Next?
The Innovation Happening Inside Hearables and Hearing Aids
The Peace Dividends of the Smartphone War One of the biggest byproducts of the mass proliferation of smartphones around the planet is the fact that the components inside the devices are becoming increasingly more powerful and sophisticated, while simultaneously becoming smaller and less expensive. Chris Anderson, the CEO of 3D Robotics, refers to this as… Continue reading The Innovation Happening Inside Hearables and Hearing Aids
The Unexpected #VoiceFirst Power Users
In-The-Ear Assistants There was a really good post published last week in the #VoiceFirst world by Cathy Pearl, the author of the book, "Designing Voice User Interfaces." In her post, she goes through some of the positive effects that smart assistants are having on the disabled and elderly communities. The unique and awesome thing about the… Continue reading The Unexpected #VoiceFirst Power Users
Pondering Apple’s Healthcare Move
Outside Disruption There have been a number of recent developments that involve impending moves from non-healthcare companies intending to venture into the healthcare space in some capacity. First, there was the joint announcement from Berkshire Hathaway, JP Morgan and Amazon that they intend to team up to "disrupt healthcare" by creating an independent healthcare company… Continue reading Pondering Apple’s Healthcare Move
This Week in Voice – First Podcast Experience
This Thursday, I was fortunate to be invited by Bradley Metrock, the host of the podcast, "This Week in Voice," to sit down with him and discuss the top stories of the week that pertain to Voice technology. I was joined by fellow panelist, Sarah Storm, who is the Head of the cloud studio,… Continue reading This Week in Voice – First Podcast Experience