Voicebot Podcast Episode 86: Vijay Balasubramaniyan CEO of Pindrop I usually try to carve out some time each weekend to catch up on some podcasts that I missed. This weekend, I wanted to circle back to this specific Voicebot episode because I had heard this was such a great conversation between Bret and Vijay. Suffice… Continue reading Future Ear Daily Update: 3-18-19
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Future Ear Daily Update 3-14-19
"Alexa IS the killer app" - Dave Isbitski I'm a huge fan of Twitter, which I'm sure is obvious to the people who know me and follow @Oaktree_Dave on there. The reason I'm such a fan is because it's like you get this front row seat to this marketplace of idea exchange, and if you… Continue reading Future Ear Daily Update 3-14-19
Future Ear Daily Update 3-13-19
"If I Were to Start a Business Today, I'd build it Around Alexa or Google Home" - Mark Cuban In a recent podcast that Mark Cuban did with Recode, he was asked the following question, "I was curious with all the investing that you do, what are three areas that you’re really excited about investing… Continue reading Future Ear Daily Update 3-13-19
The Alexa Conference 2019: From Phase One to Phase Two
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
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