VOICE Global 2021
as the organisers put it
VOICE is a family of virtual and live events bringing together the businesses and creators making waves in the voice tech and AI technology space.
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Meet the Authors of "Conversations with things" | Rebecca Evanhoe, Diana Deibel | 30m |
Book promoting practical UX for voice and chat published April 2021 and conceived about two months into the pandemic with roughly a year from proposal to… | ||
| What’s Needed in Tech to bring Voice to the Future | Roger Kibbe, Mark Tucker, Allen Firstenberg | 28m |
Argues for concrete tooling: a voice-specific CMS that edits audio nuances and SSML, plugability so developers can plug any TTS voice into third-party skills… | ||
| Vice President - Product and Program Development | Paolo Narciso | 22m |
AARP Foundation builds and deploys voice-first services (Alexa and Google) to reduce senior isolation and connect vulnerable older adults to food, benefits and… | ||
| Driving a Successful Launch for Conversational Actions | Mike Bifulco | 11m |
Launch strategy focuses on measurable, concrete steps: assemble a cross‑functional team, define audience and success metrics, and use Actions Console analytics… | ||
| Are You Really Listening? The Future of Voice Data | Marcia Tal, Betty DeVita | 30m |
Voice data becomes a strategic asset: AI and machine learning extract meaning from conversations while chatbots and voice assistants offload 60–80% routine… | ||
| Building Brand Loyalty with Voice Apps, a Retailer's Perspective | Shilp Agarwal | 21m |
Retailer builds an Alexa skill via Blutag, goes live a couple of months ago and sees a clear rise in usage tied to order status notifications and shipment… | ||
| Audioburst & Bragi are Disrupting the Earphone Market through Content & AI | Bret Kinsella | 30m |
Claims that hearables shift from broadcast to hyperpersonal audio, with Audioburst using AI to auto-segment radio and podcasts into short searchable clips and… | ||
| Interview with Witlingo's Ahmed Bouzid | Ahmed Bouzid | 23m |
Built Witlingo in 2016 after early work on Amazon Alexa and argues brand adoption is an order of magnitude slower than expected — about hundreds of skills… | ||
| The Future of $BOT Coin | Pete Erickson, Bret Kinsella | 28m |
A branded token called $BOT launches on the Rally.io sidechain as an affinity/reward currency for the voice tech community, live now and tradable to a bank… | ||
| On-Device Speech Recognition for Mobile Devices and Custom Hardware | Ognjen Todic | 22m |
Company claims a working KeenASR SDK for on-device speech recognition that runs on iOS, Android and Linux and has been developed for about five years, built as… | ||
| Multiple Ways to Build for Google Assistant | Jessica Dene Earley-Cha | 19m |
Google Assistant runs in over 19 languages and 80 countries and offers four concrete build paths: add schema.org to make websites podcasts recipes and FAQs… | ||
| Interview with Audrey Arbeeny | Audrey Arbeeny | 32m |
Audiobrain describes concrete wins: a database of thousands of tracks curated for live NBC Olympic music supervision across nine Games, creation of the Xbox… | ||
| Leveraging Voice in Healthcare After COVID | Pete Erickson, Shwen Gwee | 24m |
Claims that telemedicine jumps from <10% to ~80% adoption during COVID and that voice moves from convenience to clinical tool drive the talk: examples include… | ||
| The Revolutionary Work of AI & Machine Learning in Media | Pete Erickson, Lowell Robinson | 26m |
KQED builds voice-first experiences by repackaging existing broadcasts into algorithmic playlists and building pipelines for rapid reformatting rather than… | ||
| Meet the Authors of "Conversations with things" | Rebecca Evanhoe, Diana Deibel | 30m |
Book-length guide "Conversations with Things" goes from proposal signed two months into the pandemic to publication with Rosenfeld Media about a year later… | ||
| Discover Speech Synthesis and it’s Evolution | Pete Erickson, Fathy Yassa | 22m |
Company founded 2010 builds a modular speech synthesis stack that controls prosody and intent signals, integrates with Genesys and Nuance, and claims branded… | ||
| Meet the Founder of Openstream.ai Which started Multimodal | Raj Tumuluri | 25m |
Company started a multimodal initiative twenty years ago and co-authored the W3C multimodal architecture (ratified 2012); claims Gartner top‑10 enterprise AI… | ||
| CEO of VoiceFlow on the Importance of the Voice Community | Braden Ream, Emily Lonetto | 29m |
VoiceFlow pitches a visual no-code layer that sits atop custom stacks (like Webflow not Wix), letting teams prototype and deploy voice and chat faster while… | ||
| Keynote Interview with Google's Rebecca Nathenson | Rebecca Nathenson | 13m |
Google Assistant runs on over one billion devices in 90 countries and developer-fulfilled queries double year over year; app actions now support 60+ built‑in… | ||
| Meet the Author - Joseph Turow | Joseph Turow | 31m |
Book argues voice systems shift from assistants to seductive surveillance, citing Amazon and Google patents that enable live profiling in stores and call… | ||
| How the Philadelphia Eagles Approach and Execute in Voice | Jason Fields | 26m |
Philadelphia Eagles deploy a voice assistant on Alexa and Google built with VoiceFirе/Voiceif tooling that serves timely, conversational content — draft alerts… | ||
| Built Accessible: Speaking with An Inclusive Mindset | Aaron Mullaniff | 18m |
Benetech and NCBI build Bookshare Ireland as the largest accessible ebook library in the country and claim tangible results: 700,000 titles with publishers… | ||
| Brand Entry into Voice Commerce & Technology | Betsy Fitzgibbons, Shari Aaron | 17m |
Mars Wrigley tests voice commerce with a two-week community—week one records natural Alexa/Google Home use, week two assigns guided activities—using voice to… | ||
| From What Ifs to What’s Next! | Dave Statman, Lee Ross | 30m |
Argues that current voice systems (Alexa, Google, Bixby) remain transactional and brittle, often returning wrong answers (asked for a restaurant, got… | ||
| A Smart Home Revolution | Pete Erickson, Paul Williams | 27m |
GE Lighting sells under C by GE and completes a pandemic-era acquisition by Savant, combining a 130+ year lighting brand with a 15+ year smart‑home platform to… | ||
| TuneIn Takes Voice-First Approach in Building Audience Engagement | Richard Stern | 30m |
TuneIn runs a global live‑audio platform with 100,000+ broadcast streams and 80 million listeners, where 30% is music and 70% is conversational audio… | ||
| Voice is Helping Users Access Content Faster with Comcast | Jeanine Heck | 26m |
Comcast describes a voice platform launched in 2015 that powers tens of millions of remotes and Sky Q, claiming 14 billion voice commands in 2020 and handling… | ||
| How Voice is Transforming FinTech | Patrick Flanagan | 32m |
Visa says it supports 3.5 billion cardholders and separates an innovation pilot team from a commercial scaling team to avoid premature production. Teams… | ||
| What Did Brands Like McDonald’s Do to Keep Users Engaged During COVID? | James Poulter | 16m |
McDonald’s launches an Alexa skill available in the UK that answers store opening hours, what menu is live and when breakfast finishes, and previews the weekly… | ||
| Voice in our Culture | Denis Valášek | 10m |
Movies claim perfect speech-to-text and TTS and flawless context so assistants do anything, while sitcoms either integrate assistants realistically (Google… | ||
| We need to talk about accuracy and bias in voice tech for kids | Patricia Scanlon | 18m |
Company builds a child‑first speech engine that powers both play and education, licensed into products for classrooms and toys. Core claim is an independently… | ||
| Kids in the Voice First Generation | Martyn Farrows | 20m |
Company rebrands to Soapbox and claims a working speech recognition platform built from proprietary kid voice data that supports age 2–12 market use cases via… | ||
| Conversational AI Success Story with Global Brands | Aakrit Vaish | 24m |
After a near-failure pivot in 2018 the company refocuses on chatbots for mid-market enterprise, narrows to customer service and e-commerce use cases and builds… | ||
| Designing Voice For Humans | Aimi Nakajima | 22m |
Designs and tests an in-car original voice assistant built from scratch (developer did core system; UX adds dialog frames and user testing), plans rollout… | ||
| Higher Efficiency in Airline Customer Service Through Chatbots | Pete Erickson, Gordon Chu | 24m |
Cathay Pacific deploys chatbots that handle FAQs (check‑in, change booking, baggage, loyalty), integrate with booking engine and CRM, and run on an… | ||
| The Intersection of the Human Voice and Technology | Harry Yeff | 30m |
Demonstrates a pipeline that turns 15-second to one-minute recordings into deterministic 3D forms by extracting key resonant frequencies, mapping them to an… | ||
| Saying, “Yes!” to New Opportunities | Noelle Silver | 26m |
Career path shows concrete moves and outcomes: led data science and AI curriculum across seven universities, then built applied AI models at Electrify, and now… | ||
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