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VOICE Summit 2019

date:2019-07-22..2019-07-25
location:Newark, United States
series:VOICE Summit · 2 editions
editions:[VOICE Summit 2019, VOICE Summit 2021]
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VOICE Summit 2019 | VED Talks | John Gillilan | July 23John Gillilan12m
Voice assistants are already slicing apps into reusable capabilities with features like Alexa Conversations, cross-skill goal completion, Can't Fulfill Intent…
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VOICE Summit 2019 | VED Talks | Alexandros Potamianos | July 23Alexandros Potamianos13m
Claims that current systems reach about two-thirds of needed detection accuracy and that solving voice assistants requires audio cues plus semantics. Presents…
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VOICE Summit 2019 | VED Talks | Will Hall | July 23Will Hall11m
Argues that winning voice requires go heavy system building not isolated skills, showing concrete wins: Dianping builds payments, tens of thousands of smart…
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VOICE Summit 2019 | VED Talks | Neil Epstein | July 23Neil Epstein12m
Describes building Xfinity voice UI that ships on consumer boxes since 2014–2015 with over 20 million devices and nine million utterances, shows a “continue…
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VOICE Summit 2019 | VED Talks | Nara Kasbergen | July 23Nara Kasbergen11m
NPR builds a Play NPR skill and an MPR1 continuous-play product and finds Alexa’s AudioPlayer streams mp3/AAC and playlists fine, gives playbackFailed events…
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VOICE Summit 2019 | VED Talks | Melissa Hammersley | July 23Melissa Hammersley11m
A company builds an app that listens continuously to a reader and layers music, sound effects and character voices timed to printed books, moving from failing…
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VOICE Summit 2019 | VED Talks | Mohammed AI Tantawy | July 23Mohammed AI Tantawy06m
Automated summarization pipeline ingests full news articles and produces 75–80 word broadcast-quality summaries tuned for listenability (pronoun resolution…
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VOICE Summit 2019 | VED Talks | Maarten Lens-FitzGerald | July 23Maarten Lens-FitzGerald11m
Claims voice is already on over two billion devices and behaves as a red ocean dominated by siloed platforms that prioritize their own profit and store…
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VOICE Summit 2019 | VED Talks | Elena Matveeva | July 23Elena Matveeva11m
Company begins voice work in 2011 and now runs a proprietary Nou powered platform, builds AI in six languages from offices in four countries. Smart speakers…
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VOICE Summit 2019 | VED Talks | Dylan Zwick | July 23Dylan Zwick13m
Voice interfaces require handling unconstrained speech, sequential and ephemeral output, and making speech the easiest input; Pulse Labs tests show three…
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VOICE Summit 2019 | VED Talks | Dustin Coates | July 23Dustin A. Coates12m
Claims that voice apps can add enhance entity resolution today by using built‑in Alexa/Google tooling plus external search to resolve ambiguous requests…
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VOICE Summit 2019 | VED Talks | Amy Stapleton | July 23Amy Stapleton09m
A project called my box of chocolates publishes a monthly Alexa anthology that turns submitted short stories from amateur and middle‑school authors into voice…
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VOICE Summit 2019 | VED Talks | Nicol Turner-Lee | July 24Nicol Turner-Lee12m
Algorithms trained on skewed data systematically steer people toward predatory lending and denied credit, and criminal‑justice models reproduce incarceration…
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VOICE Summit 2019 | VED Talks | Pat Higbie | July 24Pat Higbie11m
Examples include a Mattress Firm skill that offers deals and tips, a General Mills Rice Chex spot that triggers one‑word ordering, a Toyota flow that asks…
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VOICE Summit 2019 | VED Talks | Micah Hollingworth | July 24Micah Hollingworth09m
A voice skill that sells Broadway tickets by connecting a chat-style UX to Amazon Pay integration and real-time TellerCharge API inventory searches. Claims…
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VOICE Summit 2019 | VED Talks | Giles Rhys Jones | July 24Giles Rhys Jones11m
A geocoding system converts the planet into 57 trillion 10ft × 10ft (also described as 3m × 3m) squares and assigns each square a three-word address that’s…
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VOICE Summit 2019 | VED Talks | Jim Harper | July 24Jim Harper13m
Voice is framed as a 21st‑century thermometer: a smartphone app collects short samples (hold vowels, read a sentence, or say “Alexa what is the weather”) and…
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VOICE Summit 2019 | VED Talks | Harjinder Sandhu | July 24Harjinder Sandhu10m
Claims that conversational agents fail for clinical documentation and that passive listening systems are the viable path forward evidence a concrete…
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VOICE Summit 2019 | VED Talks | Galina Madjaroff | July 24Galina Madjaroff13m
Two years of in-home deployments put multiple Amazon Alexa units into longterm-couple homes to support dementia and cognitive impairment and show concrete…
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VOICE Summit 2019 | VED Talks | Cathy Herbert & Tyler Merritt | July 24Cathy Herbert, Tyler Merritt12m
Business NLG demo shows Aria’s RESTful Aria NLG studio taking Salesforce and ERP data and returning spoken and written narratives via Alexa, including a…
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VOICE Summit 2019 | VED Talks | Angela Stengel | July 24Angela Stengel14m
ABC launches three initial flash briefings (news, finance, sport) on smart speakers at launch in Australia and measures usage, seeing a peak at Christmas and…
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VOICE Summit 2019 | VED Talks | Simon Nynens | July 25Simon Nynens12m
Argues happiness depends on money time and health rather than buzzwords and shows three leadership modes — force, coin operated incentives, and enabling people…
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VOICE Summit 2019 | VED Talks | Richard Hill | July 25Richard Hill13m
Send Me A Sample is a voice-activated sampling platform using Alexa and Google Assistant, deployed for Coca-Cola and Dunkin' to deliver nationwide product…
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VOICE Summit 2019 | VED Talks | Kevin Teman | July 25 (issue with cam1)Kevin Teman16m
A voice first dating product is built to emulate a human matchmaker using voice interactions, coaching both parties, facilitating calls and first dates, and…
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VOICE Summit 2019 | VED Talks | Rashmi Rao | July 25Rashmi Rao13m
History shows Becker/Harman built successive car audio leaps from 1949 radios to 1997 nav+CD and 2005 IBM/Honda speech, and claims automotive was the first…
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VOICE Summit 2019 | VED Talks | Jessica Hall | July 25Jessica Hall13m
A product-focused playbook grounded in a Forrester survey of 140+ product pros (84% say their work drives revenue; 74% don’t know customers’ problems; 72%…
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VOICE Summit 2019 | VED Talks | Allen Firstenberg | July 25Allen Firstenberg10m
A voice interface that reads and writes Google Sheets is live and working: Vudu (Voodoo) opens a named spreadsheet, reads the last-row value, adds rows, copies…
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