Top news stories for Season 3, Episode 4 (October 11, 2018):
1) Screen Time: Amazon and Google battle for multi-modal supremacy
1a) The new Amazon Echo Show's improved screen and better speakers aren't enough
1b) Google Home Hub joins the fight to put a screen on your countertop
2) Voicebot.AI Story Of The Week: 61% of Alexa skills still have no ratings, and only 1% have more than 100
3) The Verge: Google Duplex will start rolling out on Pixel devices next month
4) The second cohort of Amazon's Alexa Accelerator, powered by Techstars, is in the books. Which company, of the group, are you most bullish on?
5) Business Insider: Over one million people asked Alexa to marry them last year, and she turned them all down
This Week In Voice available via:
Apple Podcasts
Google Play Music
Overcast
SoundCloud
Stitcher Radio
TuneIn
YouTube (+ closed captioning)
Panel for Season 3, Episode 4 (October 11, 2018):
Brian Garr is an author, speaker, and chief revenue officer for GoVivace Speech Technologies.
Daniel Gonzalez (@IAmDanielGonz) is the co-founder of SoundBite Inc, a voice-first platform to serve as the infrastructure for tomorrow's mixed reality world.
SoundBite's voice platform is unique in that it allows you to directly speak commands or communicate with people without the need for a voice assistant to mediate the interaction. Right now the platform is in its beta and enables direct touch-free voice messaging, and will soon integrate with AR/VR to allow for digital interaction by voice.
