Season 3, Episode 12 (January 24, 2019):

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Featured guests:

Brielle Nickoloff (Lead, Product Marketing, Witlingo)

Lucas Wonderley (Senior Software Developer, SAP)

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Stories:

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1) 2019 Alexa Conference De-brief

1a) Lucas Wonderley's Alexa Conference summary

1b) The 2019 Alexa Conference official post-mortem report

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2) Voicebot.AI Story of the Week: KFC is the first fast-food restaurant to enable voice ordering through Alexa...in India!

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3) VentureBeat: Sherpa.AI raises $8.5M to shepherd its Spanish-speaking assistant to smart speakers

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4) Quick! What's the most offensive thing Alexa has ever said, or probably will ever say?

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This episode of This Week In Voice is sponsored by Magic + Company, a premiere agency that has helped many top brands find their voice. A Diamond Sponsor of The 2019 Alexa Conference, Magic + Company's Ben Fisher spoke on the necessity of marketers to be thinking about how best to represent their organizations in this new voice-first era. We recommend them for any company looking to create a voice experience or brand extension within these nascent IoT ecosystems.