David Forman is a visionary entrepreneur and digital marketing expert, renowned for his innovative use of speech and voice technology to revolutionize business operations.  With a background in corporate management and a passion for maximizing efficiency, David has consistently sought out cutting-edge solutions to streamline processes and drive success. As the founder of Clarity Creative, a leading digital marketing agency, David has spearheaded initiatives to leverage speech recognition...

Manuj Aggarwal is an expert in artificial intelligence, having worked in the field since 2007.  He believes that AI is not just coming, it's been changing the world for at least the past 15 years. From smartphones to voice-enabled devices like Alexa, AI is already all around us.  Manuj sees a future where AI will not take over humanity or cause mass unemployment, but will instead displace some jobs while creating new and more satisfying opportunities for those who upskill themselves and...

Allison Smith is a well-known voice actress who is famous for her work in the entertainment industry. She has provided her voice for several automated systems, including hotel wake-up calls and workout apps.  A great story that Allison shares is about how she once experienced the oddity of hearing her voice wake her up in a hotel room. Allison's husband even downloaded a fitness app with her voice to motivate him at the gym, but eventually switched to a different voice due to her constant...

Jillian Domingue is the founder and CEO of Lucero, a youth-driven, therapist-approved gamified wellness app for tweens, teens, and their crew She has a Bachelor’s degree in Human Development and Family Sciences from The University of Texas and over a decade of experience building programs, products, and services to improve the lives of individuals and families.  Her experience as a foster mom and daily life as an adoptive mom to two young children inspires and influences her work...

Itay is fascinated by how technology and neuroscience can be harnessed to develop new and disruptive tools for healthcare systems. Itay did his Ph.D. in Physics and Neuroscience and has over 20 years of experience in inventing and developing cutting-edge technologies. As a researcher, developer, and founder at a variety of startup companies in different sectors such as optics and renewable energy, Itay has an extensive background in leading multidisciplinary technological teams from an idea...

Sat Rampal is the co-founder and CEO of Maya AI, a deep research & strategy robot that uses generative AI to answer any data question with comparatives to the real world. Born in Florida, Sat, at the young age of 19, dived into entrepreneurship and has since then, never looked back. 10 years later he holds a passion to help future innovators become more efficient in the growth of their businesses. An innovator, Sat has built businesses around software development, call centers,...

Michaell is an Austrian-California multimedia artist, creativity educator, speaker, and author. He considers himself a person who can comprehend and define creativity outside the economic system in the human context.  Michaell’s main goal in life is to find more of himself and considers his artistic explorations as a vehicle for self-awareness.  He tries to live life at his best, and his current goal lies in discovering how humans and systems interact in everyday life.  Listen in to...

For over 25 years, Nick has been on a first-name basis with computers. Landing his first IT job at age 15, Nick founded Windy City Networks, Inc at 19 which was acquired in 2013 by BSSi2. In 2015 Nick created Security Fanatics, a Cybersecurity/Cyberwarfare outfit dedicated to designing custom Cyberdefense strategies for medium to enterprise corporations.  An expert in cybersecurity and network infrastructure, Nick has consulted with clients ranging from small business owners up to Fortune...

John Wall is the co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer at MiiCare. He graduated from Stanford with a BS in Electrical Engineering and finds his passion and fulfillment in life through his everyday endeavor to create engineering solutions and user-centric design to serve the elderly. At MiiCare, the digital health coach and companion, Monica, is the key product that John and his team work on. Monica provides holistic care for seniors by powering their homes with AI-driven technology that...

Rich Linder, founder of Xenter MD, talks with Darin and Jeff about Xenter's novel offering for transcribing and reporting medical procedures.

Imagine a world where your computer can talk to you in plain language about what's going on in your business, delivering insights and analysis in a format that's clear and easy to understand. That's the mission of Arria, and Lyndsee Manna tells us all about it in this episode.

What does a person do after 35 years in tech, including 12 years at Amazon, serving as VP of Kindle, Echo, and Alexa, and Jeff Bezos’s TA (“shadow”)? Well, in Ian Freed's case, you launch a voice-oriented company that will make a real difference. Bamboo Learning is the leader in conversation-based learning for children.

Yactraq bills itself as the value leader in conversational AI / speech analytics for contact centers. Jeff and Darin talk with Jeh Daruvula, Benjamin Land, Josh Ayres, and MK about how speech technology is being used in contact centers to improve the customer experience.

Speechly provides accurate, real-time speech recognition and natural language understanding tools under one flexible API.  In this episode, we speak with founder Otto Söderlund about what that means for consumers and businesses. And we talk a little bit about food & speech. Here is a demo of the kind of food ordering by voice that Otto describes in the podcast.

How are mom's carrot cookies similar to the Eastern Min dialect of Chinese? Daniel Zheng is on a mission to preserve Eastern Min with the help of speech technology. Despite having about 10 million speakers, the language is in danger of extinction in a generation or two, and Daniel is on a mission to reverse that. He founded ZFC to help with education and technology in support of Eastern Min preservation. And before you ask, here's the recipe for... Mom's Carrot...

Ahmed Bouzid has been building and delivering voice solutions his entire career. His company, Witlingo, helps other companies engage their audiences with voice on several levels. That might involve helping companies develop voice skills & interfaces, or providing tools to allow customers to share voice reviews and testimonials.

Constant Companion uses empathy, data and AI powered voice and video solutions to reinvent the way we care for the elderly and those who need in-home care. Their systems keep people more connected, engaged and protected, and help people live safer and more independent lives with dignity. Founder Mark Gray talks with us about the role voice plays in this process.

Rene Arvin is the co-founder of VoiceScript, a new company that is transforming - and saving - the court transcription industry. Rene talks with Darin and Jeff about the origins of VoiceScript, and what we might expect to see in courtrooms and legal deposition proceedings of the near future.

As a platform enabler, Ken Sutton of Yobe see a future where voice is moving from a "nice to have" user interface to a "need to have" revenue generator. Yobe's AI-powered platform is purpose-built for live crowds and noisy environments to identify and decode human voices. Modeled on human hearing, Yobe’s signal processing techniques substantially increase SNRs (signal-to-noise ratio) in noisy environments allowing the ability to decipher emotion, intent, mood, and other biological markers...

Igor Jablokov is a force of nature. He previously founded and ran Yap, where our host Jeff Adams ran the research group. Now he is the founder and CEO of Pryon, an artificial intelligence (AI) company delivering an enterprise knowledge management platform. Pryon’s natural language processing (NLP) engine ingests and transforms data into experiences that solve critical business challenges. In this episode, he talks with Darin and Jeff about Pryon's enterprise AI technology, and about tech...

Roberto Sicconi discusses the use of voice (and other) tech that Dreyev is bringing to market to help drivers stay safe. Dreyev offers an in-vehicle “digital copilot” device that evaluates drivers for risky behavior. Through Computer Vision and Machine Learning, the Dreyev system analyzes driver conditions such as head pose and eyelid closure to detect distracted or drowsy driving and issues real-time voice alerts in the case of dangerous conditions.

Babbly is building an AI powered platform that will enable parents to monitor their child's development in early years of life. Babbly can analyze a child's speech and language skills and empower parents to track their baby's development like they would with sleep and body temperature. Maryam Nabavi is a mother, and a strategic Leader with 10+ yrs of experience in product innovation & consumer electronics. Carla Margalef Bentabol has deep experience in software development, artificial...

Rev.com is a leading provider of transcription services, with a "gig economy" approach to transcription. Miguel Jetté has been leading Rev's speech technology team for 5 years and has fascinating insights into the melding of human and computer resources to increase accuracy and productivity of speech transcription.