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
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Smart Assistants Continue to Incrementally Improve
This week we saw a few developments in the #VoiceFirst space that might seem trivial on the surface, but are landmark improvements toward more fully-functional voice assistants. The first was from Amazon with the introduction of "Follow-up mode." As you can see from Dr. Ahmed Bouzid's video below, this removes having to say, "Alexa" for… Continue reading Smart Assistants Continue to Incrementally Improve
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
The Great #VoiceFirst Debate
Monday night, Twitter proved yet again that despite all its shortcomings, it is still the king of where some of the best discussions and debates go down for all to see. Normally, I wouldn't base a blog post around a twitter debate, but this specific thread was a culmination of a lot of content and… Continue reading The Great #VoiceFirst Debate
The Alexa Conference Blew my Mind
Last Thursday, I was fortunate for the opportunity to travel to Chattanooga, TN to attend the second annual Alexa Conference and join a group of some of the smartest people working on Voice technology. The cool thing about the Alexa Conference is that it's not sponsored by Amazon (or Google or any other major tech… Continue reading The Alexa Conference Blew my Mind
5 Hearables and Voice First Takeaways from CES 2018
The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) took place this past week in Las Vegas, bringing together 184,000 attendees and a whole host of vendors in the consumer electronics space to showcase all of the new, innovative things each is working on. Once again, smart assistants stole the show, making this the third year in row… Continue reading 5 Hearables and Voice First Takeaways from CES 2018
2018 Starts with a Bang
Editor's Note: In my initial post, I mentioned that along with the long-form assessments I've been publishing, I'd also be doing short, topical updates. This is the first of those updates. In the first week of 2018, we saw a handful of significant updates that pertain to various trends converging around ears. Here's a rundown… Continue reading 2018 Starts with a Bang
A Journey to the Center of the Ear
The Road Starts Here If you examine the past 50 years of user interfaces in computing, what you'll see is that a new one surfaces every 10 years or so. Each of these new interfaces has been an incremental step away from hardware-based interfaces, to ones that are more software-based. From the 1970's - early… Continue reading A Journey to the Center of the Ear