Today's episode of the podcast features, Tim McElreath, Director of Technology for Mobile and Emerging Technologies at Discovery. Discovery is the parent company of Food Network, and Tim's team is responsible for building applications like the recently revealed, Food Network Kitchen. If you recall, this application was something that Katherine Prescott and I talked about… Continue reading 009 – Tim McElreath – Food Network Kitchen
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Guest Appearance – Voicebot Podcast with Andy Bellavia and Bret Kinsella: Hearables + Voice
Last week, I joined Bret Kinsella and Andy Bellavia on the Voicebot podcast to talk about hearables and why they're suddenly emerging as such an important facet of voice technology. Our conversation touched on everything from how companies are improving battery life to facilitate longer usage, to which companies are best poised to succeed in… Continue reading Guest Appearance – Voicebot Podcast with Andy Bellavia and Bret Kinsella: Hearables + Voice
Podcast: Bradley Metrock – Project Voice (Future Ear Daily Update 12-5-19)
Today's episode of the Future Ear Podcast features Bradley Metrock, CEO of Score Publishing and the head of the VoiceFirst Event circuit. In January, Bradley and his team will be holding the capstone of their conference circuit, Project Voice, where more than 3,000 voice enthusiasts from 20 different countries will gather in Chattanooga, TN to… Continue reading Podcast: Bradley Metrock – Project Voice (Future Ear Daily Update 12-5-19)
Podcast: Andy Bellavia – VoiceFirst Hearables Use Cases (Future Ear Daily Update 12-3-19)
Today's episode of the Future Ear Radio Podcast features Andy Bellavia of Knowles Corporation. This is the second half of our hearables discussion, and while part one was largely centered around how the stage has been set for the next decade with hearables, part two explores what types of use cases might emerge now that… Continue reading Podcast: Andy Bellavia – VoiceFirst Hearables Use Cases (Future Ear Daily Update 12-3-19)
Podcast: Katherine Prescott – Multimodal Use Cases (Future Ear Daily Update 11-21-19)
Last post, I announced the launch of the Future Ear podcast, with the first episode featuring Katherine Prescott, founder and editor of Voicebrew. During our initial discussion, we spoke about the booming smart display market and how these multimodal smart speakers are setting the stage for a whole new host of use cases for our… Continue reading Podcast: Katherine Prescott – Multimodal Use Cases (Future Ear Daily Update 11-21-19)
Podcast: Katherine Prescott – The Multimodal Growth Story (Future Ear Daily Update 11-20-19)
I'm very excited to announce the *official* launch of the Future Ear Radio podcast. I have been playing around with podcasting for a week now and published a few trial episodes, but now that I've gotten my bearings, I'm ready to officially take on podcasting. The Future Ear Radio podcast will be 15-20 minute discussions… Continue reading Podcast: Katherine Prescott – The Multimodal Growth Story (Future Ear Daily Update 11-20-19)
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