VOICE Summit 2021
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Interview | Nick Desai | 18m |
A voice-first care platform that ties triage, daily reminders, device data and medication delivery into one curated care plan, demonstrated by a real… | ||
| Interview | Otto Söderlund | 26m |
Claims a rebuilt voice stack that runs streaming ASR+NLU in real time to avoid the “speak then wait” waterfall and dramatically cut latency. Describes five… | ||
| Interview | Shilp Agarwal | 24m |
Bluetag builds voice shopping for ambient devices and supports Alexa and Google Assistant, focusing on grocery reorders, order tracking and proactive delivery… | ||
| Conversation with Mohammad Omar (Founder of LXT) and @ianutile | Mohammad Omar | 05m |
LXT describes building large training data pipelines for speech and conversational AI, serving major speech recognition firms, startups and researchers like… | ||
| Interview Session | Ted Hahs | 11m |
Conversation at VOICE Summit 2021 highlights live demos and concrete use cases: a robot dog backflip demo responds to “hey doge do a backflip” and… | ||
| Interview Session | Jon Stine | 14m |
Describes a push to make voice interfaces interoperable across platforms by creating shared dialogue, context and control standards via the Open Voice Network… | ||
| Interview Session | Ian Utile | 16m |
Claim: voice becomes the primary interface for Web3 because thumbs on glass won’t scale. Built a mass-distribution system that sends live audio to Alexa… | ||
| Interview Session | Brandon Kaplan | 11m |
Metaverse session at 2:30 previews how conversational teams influence virtual worlds while the agency explains why voice as a program not a project outperforms… | ||
| Conversation with Elise Pinto (CEO at Vocads) and @ianutile | Elise Pinto | 11m |
A Paris startup launches a three‑module no-code voice builder that embeds a mic on websites, captures real‑time voice sessions, and delivers analytics for… | ||
| Conversation with Andrea Huels (Head of AI N.A. at Lenovo) and @ianutile | Andrea Huels | 10m |
Lenovo describes how it assembles ISVs, Nvidia, Intel and cloud partners (AWS/Azure) to deliver edge-to-cloud hybrid deployments for retail and QSR. It… | ||
| Conversation with Pete Erickson (CEO at MODEV) and @ianutile | Pete Erickson | 09m |
The market for Conversational AI solutions that transform the customer experience, automate workflows and drive ecommerce is growing exponentially. VOICE… | ||
| Demo Session | Rama Chakaki | 10m |
Platform demos a searchable catalog of 28,000 models from 30+ suppliers, lets users run quick Arabic→English MT benchmarks (shows translated snippets and… | ||
| Demo Session | Chetan Damani | 13m |
Cashew.ai builds an Alexa skill called Explore Abu Dhabi in a few weeks, launches audio and in-skill ads to drive people to say "Alexa, explore Abu Dhabi," and… | ||
| Demo Session | Chandler Murch | 08m |
A hardware dongle called Talk Socket snaps onto PopSockets-style bases, licensed from PopSockets and demoed working with Alexa using the phone’s audio output… | ||
| Demo Session | Rob Stanbridge | 15m |
A SaaS dashboard that aggregates cross-platform metrics from Alexa skills and Google Actions every four hours, showing unique customers, sessions, utterances… | ||
| Conversation w/ Morgan Reed (President of App Association) and @ianutile | Morgan Reed | 21m |
ACT represents more than 5,000 companies and argues voice products must pair engineering with compliance: cite the estimate that California-style privacy rules… | ||
| Interview Session | Stafford B. Sutton Jr. | 10m |
Describes an off‑grid smart bus stop that combines solar+wind power, internet charging, cameras and a 65–70 inch screen to show live ETA and detected vehicle… | ||
| Conversation with Sean King (SVP, GM at Veritone) and @ianutile | Sean King | 25m |
Product demo and policy detail meet: Veritone launches marvel.ai synthetic voice (public May) that creates clones where the person owns the sound IP while… | ||
| Conversation with Noelle Silver (AI Leadership Institute) and @ianutile | Noelle Silver | 09m |
Describes concrete wins: voice assistants already change daily life for people with cognitive decline (one example hears Alexa says 14 times a day instead of a… | ||
| Conversation with Audrey Arbeeny (Founder at Audiobrain) and @ianutile | Audrey Arbeeny | 07m |
Audiobrain explains how holistic sonic identity works in practice and shows the scale of real projects: 18 years as a company, 25 years of experience, work on… | ||
| Conversation with James Poulter (CEO of Vixen Labs) and John Kelvie | James Poulter, John Kelvie | 12m |
Bespoken builds tooling for voice and chat that has run since 2017 and claims concrete wins: automated testing, training, monitoring for Alexa, Google, IVR and… | ||
| Sponsor Booth Interviews w/ James Poulter (CEO Vixen Labs) and @ianutile | James Poulter | 21m |
Onsite expo interview explains concrete moves: a short roadmap for the next 12–24 months centered on 3Ms: metadata money media, voice as the primary control… | ||
| Conversation with Hassan Sawaf (CEO at aiXplain) and @ianutile | Hassan Sawaf | 03m |
Aixplain presents a platform that benchmarks multiple models fairly across vendors like Amazon Microsoft Aptek and Deepgram and lets teams compare quality and… | ||
| Conversation with Chandler Murch (Co-Founder at TalkGo) and @ianutile | Chandler Murch | 22m |
A hardware product called Talk Socket embeds Alexa into a PopSockets-style grip and pairs to phones over Bluetooth to wake locally and forward requests to the… | ||
| Conversation with Rama Chakaki (aiXplain Chief Evangelist) and @ianutile | Rama Chakaki | 04m |
aiXplain runs a marketplace that connects voice and language AI suppliers with media, e‑commerce and consumer‑electronics buyers, offering benchmarking tools… | ||
| Demo Session | Otto Söderlund | 20m |
A live CodePen builds a working voice-enabled product filter in minutes using Speechly’s JS libs, dashboard and quickstart. The page adds a push-to-talk button… | ||
| Conversation with Collin Borns (Head Biz Dev at Speechly) and @ianutile | Collin Borns | 09m |
A developer-focused API that adds voice as a practical input for web and mobile apps, not a full conversational assistant: Speechly exposes developer API… | ||
| Conversation with Raghu Ravinutala (CEO of yellow.ai) and @ianutile | Raghu Ravinutala | 24m |
Company builds dynamic AI agents that decide when to automate, when to hand off to humans, and carry context across channels; platform runs on messaging… | ||
| VOICE 2021 | Jess Thornhill, Volley | Jess Thornhill | 06m |
Volley builds voice games for smart speakers and reports rising household use — 55% of US households by 2022 — with people grouping around Echo Shows to play… | ||
| VOICE 2021 | Marco Scabia, Benext | Marco Scabia | 06m |
Benext builds and open-sources a SaaS analytics tool called b voice that aggregates voice sessions and surfaces actionable metrics from over 1M users and 5M… | ||
| VOICE 2021 | Daria Baidakova, Toloka | Daria Baidakova | 10m |
Crowdsourcing scales collection and still requires humans for training, evaluation and client benchmarks; recordings under instruction use local volunteers… | ||
| VOICE 2021 | Rob Stanbridge, Voicelab | Rob Stanbridge | 10m |
Research of 2,000 owners surveyed shows 7 in 10 already buy or would buy physical goods by voice and two thirds for digital goods, with the average spend £21 /… | ||
| VOICE 2021 | Chris Butler, IPsoft | Chris Butler | 07m |
Communal voice devices break single-user assumptions and cause wrong recommendations and privacy leaks; five problem sets are identity, privacy, security… | ||
| VOICE 2021 | Shilp Agarwal, Blutag | Shilp Agarwal | 05m |
Bluetag builds voice shopping experiences and reports concrete metrics: US smart speakers exceed 150 million, 35 million buyers used them to purchase in 2020… | ||
| VOICE 2021 | Elise Pinto, Vocads | Elise Pinto | 07m |
Claims that voice conveys five times more information five times faster, that voice commerce reaches $80 billion by 2023 and that 8 billion voice assistants… | ||
| VOICE 2021 | Mike Zagorsek, Soundhound | Mike Zagorsek | 01m |
Asserts that every brand should build a custom voice assistant that acts as a multi-channel extension of the company and its customer experience, not just… | ||
| VOICE 2021 | Arpita Kumar, Google Assistant | Arpita Kumar | 04m |
Google Assistant implements a researched content strategy to reduce gendered abuse after a 2019 study shows users are significantly more abusive to… | ||
| VOICE 2021 | Allan Bekker, Snap | Allan Bekker | 07m |
A case is made that virtual beings are already commercial and technical realities: a virtual influencer earns 11 million dollars and is acquired for over 100… | ||
| Outro | Pete Erickson | 02m |
Short wrap that names who to thank and what happens next: staff, AV, volunteers, speakers and sponsors get applause; next year returns Oct 10–13 at the venue… | ||
| Intro | Pete Erickson | 03m |
Conference frames conversational AI as a growth market for CX automation and ecommerce and reports about 350 registered for the in‑person nucleus of the… | ||
| Interview Sneak Peek with TuneIn, Inc. CEO Richard Stern | Richard Stern | 14m |
As we emerge from the pandemic, the market for Conversational AI solutions that transform the customer experience, automate workflows and drive ecommerce is… | ||
| Learn from Leaders in Voice and AI at , Dec 7-8, | Richard Stern | 01m |
Voice tech and AI leaders from around the globe are gathering December 7-8 for VOICE21. This is one of the industry's top events at the intersection of Voice… | ||
| The Future of NLP - Summit in Washington D.C. | Ian Utile | 34m |
Approximately 500 technology leaders are interviewed over several years and an NFT NYC event draws 10,000 in Times Square, supporting the claim that NFT… | ||
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