This Week In Voice, the conversational AI news discussion roundtable, is proud to return for its ninth season. Hosted by Bradley Metrock (CEO, Project Voice; General Partner, Project Voice Capital Partners), the show talks through the news of the week related to natural language-based AI with a who's-who of executives and leaders working with the technology. Guests: Ricardo Marin (Vozy), Nieves Abalos Serrano (Monoceros Labs), Reena Gupta (Mom Relaunch / Wisdocity) Stories for...

This Week In Voice, the conversational AI news discussion roundtable, is proud to return for its ninth season. Hosted by Bradley Metrock (CEO, Project Voice; General Partner, Project Voice Capital Partners), the show talks through the news of the week related to natural language-based AI with a who's-who of executives and leaders working with the technology. Guests: Enric Plana (CEO, M47 Labs), Norrie Daroga (President, Codebaby), Christoph Esslinger (CEO, VUI Agency), Dr. Yared Alemu (CEO,...

This Week In Voice Season 8, Episode 10 Guests: Chris Pidcock (CereProc), Rob Carpenter (Valyant AI), Rob Lubow (Botcopy), Jesse Shemen (Papercup) Stories for discussion: 1) ChatGPT bug leaked users' conversation histories (BBC) https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65047304 2) The Genie Escapes: Stanford Copies The ChatGPT AI For Less Than $600 (New Atlas) https://newatlas.com/technology/stanford-alpaca-cheap-gpt/ 3) Move Over DALL-E, I'm Making AI Art With Alexa On My Amazon TV...

This Week In Voice Season 8, Episode 9 Guests: Rana Gujral (Behavioral Signals), Amy Brown (Authenticx), Amir Tsrouya (TalkSense), Lauren Koretzki (Wysa) Stories for discussion: 1a) What's New With GPT-4: From Processing Pictures To Acing Tests (The Verge) https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/15/23640047/openai-gpt-4-differences-capabilties-functions 1b) Anthropic Unveils Generative AI Chatbot Claude (Voicebot.AI)...

This Week In Voice Season 8, Episode 8 Guests: Greg Bennett (Salesforce), Daniel Lackland (Ai4) + Ai4 guest (Chris Morrow of Amazon); Marty Sarim (Sanas.ai), Jayaprakash Kommu (SmartBots) Stories for discussion: 1) Chaos Inside Google As Execs Try To Figure Out How To Actually use AI (Futurism) https://futurism.com/chaos-google-execs-use-for-ai 2) Amazon: Alexa Troubles But Deeply Undervalued Intrinsically (Seeking Alpha)...

This Week In Voice Season 8, Episode 7 Guests: Neji Tawo (PayTalk), Seth Levine (Loris.ai), Brian Rubin (Cerence), Dan Turchin (PeopleReign) Stories for discussion: 1) ChatGpt and Whisper APIs debut, allowing devs to integrate them into apps (Ars Technica) https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/chatgpt-and-whisper-apis-debut-allowing-devs-to-integrate-them-into-apps/ 2) Meta introduces large language model LLaMA as a competitor to OpenAI (Voicebot.AI)...

This Week In Voice Season 8, Episode 6 Guests: Christoph Borner (Cyara), Hans van Dam (Conversation Design Institute), Liyani Rodriguez (Raddle), Matt Miller (G2) Stories for discussion: 1) ChatGPT -style Search Represents A 10x Cost Increase For Google, Microsoft (Ars Technica) https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/02/chatgpt-style-search-represents-a-10x-cost-increase-for-google-microsoft/ 2) Amazon's Kindle Store Has Been Flooded With Books Written By ChatGPT (Pocket Lint)...

This Week In Voice Season 8, Episode 5 Guests: Ivan Lee (CEO, Datasaur), Raniero Romagnoli (CTO, Almawave), Heath Ahrens (Founder, Voice.ai), Mitch Lieberman (Founder, Conversational X) Stories for discussion: 1a) Microsoft's ChatGPT-powered Bing is getting 'unhinged' and argumentative, some users say: it 'feels sad and scared' (Fortune) https://fortune.com/2023/02/14/microsoft-chatgpt-bing-unhinged-scared/ 1b) ChatGPT AI accused of liberal bias after refusing to write Hunter Biden New...

This Week In Voice Season 8, Episode 4 Guests: Andrew Hong (CEO, Dashbot), Raghu Ravintala (CEO, Yellow.ai), Sam Danby (Head of Voice, Boost.ai), Richard Graves (CEO, Sorcero) Stories for discussion: 1a) Alphabet shares dive after Google AI chatbot Bard flubs answer in ad (Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-ai-chatbot-bard-offers-inaccurate-information-company-ad-2023-02-08/ 1b) Google is scrambling to catch up to Bing, of all things (Vox)...

This Week In Voice Season 8, Episode 3 Guests: Maaike Coppens (VP of Design, OpenDialog AI), Amit Ben (CEO, One AI), Greg Whiteside (CEO, HumanFirst), Jay Ruparel (CEO, VoicePlug AI), Mark Hasegawa-Johnson (Speech Accessibility Project, UIUC) Stories for discussion: 1) Google Shows Off New Text-To-Music AI Composer MusicLM (Voicebot.ai) https://voicebot.ai/2023/01/30/google-shows-off-new-text-to-music-ai-composer-musiclm/ 2) Some Insist That Generative AI ChatGPT Is A Mirror Into The Soul...

Guests: Shyamala Prayaga (Senior Software Product Manager, Conversational AI, NVIDIA), Victor Riparbelli (CEO, Synthesia), Molly Duggan (CEO, Molly Duggan Associates), Freddie Feldman (Director, Voice and Conversational Interfaces, Wolters Kluwer Health) Stories for discussion: 1) SoundHound Raises $25M Weeks After Major Layoffs (Voicebot.ai) https://voicebot.ai/2023/01/24/soundhound-raises-25m-weeks-after-major-layoffs/ 2) OpenAI Reportedly Tests ChatGPT Pro. Here's What We Know About The...

This Week In Voice Season 8, Episode 1 Guests: Peter Suma (ABR), Joti Balani (Freshriver.ai), Jason Banks (nVoq) Stories for discussion: 1) OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers On Less Than $2/Hour To Make ChatGPT Less Toxic (TIME) https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/ 2) Collection Of Voice Data For Profit Raises Privacy Fears (ABC News) https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/collection-voice-data-profit-raises-privacy-fears/story?id=96363792 3) Artists File Class Action Lawsuit...

This Week In Voice Season 7, Episode 10 Guests: Noelle Silver (IBM), Mike Pappas (Modulate.ai), Alex Bordanova (Voicemod), Alya Yacoubi (Zaion) Stories: 1a) The Latest Details On The Amazon Layoffs And The Impact On Alexa (Voicebot.ai) https://voicebot.ai/2022/11/15/the-latest-details-on-the-amazon-layoffs-and-the-impact-on-alexa/ 1b) Alexa, Cut Costs! Amazon Begins Layoffs At Devices, Services Units (NY Post)...

This Week In Voice Season 7, Episode 9 Guests: Charles Cadbury (CEO, Say It Now), Colleen Fahey (US Managing Director, Sixieme Son), Gonen Ziv (Chief Revenue Officer, Onvego) Stories: 1) TV AI Startup Disruptel Acquired By Samba TV (Voicebot.ai) https://voicebot.ai/2022/11/08/tv-ai-startup-disruptel-acquired-by-samba-tv/ 2) Elon Musk Has Fired Twitter's 'Ethical AI' Team (WIRED) https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-ethical-ai-team/ 3) Amazon Alexa Misinforms Tennesseans Of Polling Hours...

This Week In Voice Season 7, Episode 8 Guests: Kiran Kadekoppa (CTO and Co-Founder, HUEX), Susan Hura (Chief Design Officer, Kore.ai), Chetan Damani (CEO, Cashew.ai), Dylan Fox (CEO, AssemblyAI), Evan Macmillan (CEO, Gridspace) Stories: 1) RAIN Debuts 'Ortho' Industrial Voice Assistant For Vehicle Repair (Voicebot.ai) https://voicebot.ai/2022/11/01/rain-debuts-ortho-industrial-voice-assistant-for-vehicle-repair/ 2) Amazon's New Head Of Alexa Shares His Vision For The Future, Including New...

This Week In Voice Season 7, Episode 7 Guests: Martin Ramirez (CRO, WellSaid Labs), Nikola Mrksic (CEO, PolyAI), Mark Fosdike (CEO, Datch), Shridhar Marri (CEO, Senseforth) Stories: 1) Voicebot.AI is 6 Years Old - Here Are 6 Ways The Industry Has Changed (Voicebot.AI) - https://voicebot.ai/2022/10/24/voicebot-is-6-years-old-here-are-6-ways-the-industry-has-changed/ 2) Shutterstock to integrate OpenAI's DALL-E 2 and launch fund for contributor artists (TechCrunch) -...

Bradley Metrock discusses the Women Leaders of Conversational AI, Class of 2023, how they will be honored at Project Voice 2023 (April 24-28, Chattanooga TN) and shares something noteworthy about each individual. (Part 2 of 2)

Bradley Metrock discusses the Women Leaders of Conversational AI, Class of 2023, how they will be honored at Project Voice 2023 (April 24-28, Chattanooga TN) and shares something noteworthy about each individual.

This Week In Voice Season 7, Episode 5 Guests: Kat Giudes (Managing Director, TalkVia) Benjamin Brown (VP Marketing, ConverseNow) Brett Adler (Co-Founder, VoicePT) Stories: 1) Bank of America's Erica tops 1 billion client interactions (Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/article/bofaml-technology-erica-idTRNIKBN2R71EI 2) Is It My Turn Yet? Teaching A Voice Assistant When To Speak (Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence)...

This Week In Voice Season 7, Episode 4 Special AI Bill of Rights Edition Guests: Zohaib Ahmed (CEO, Resemble.ai), Ram Menon (CEO, Avaamo), Rupal Patel (VP of Voice and Accessibility, Veritone) Stories: 1a) Biden proposes new "Bill of Rights" to protect Americans from AI harms (Ars Technica): https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/10/biden-proposes-new-bill-of-rights-to-protect-americans-from-ai-snooping/ 1b) Analysis: White House unveils 'AI bill of rights' as 'call to action'...

This Week In Voice Season 7, Episode 3 Guests: Chris Ezekiel (CEO, Creative Virtual), Timo Kunz (Founder, Aflorithmic / API.Audio), Sean McIlrath (VP and GM, Americas, Artificial Solutions) Stories: 1) Siri, Alexa, and Google Home make children rude, anti-social (NY Post): https://nypost.com/2022/09/28/siri-alexa-and-google-home-make-children-rude-anti-social-study/ 2) Here are the new features Amazon is adding to Alexa (Engadget):...

This Week In Voice Season 7, Episode 2 Guests: Maddy Apple (CEO, Women In Voice), Alex Misiaszek (SVP, Truist), Celene Osiecka (Senior Director, Conversation Design, [24]7.ai) Stories for discussion: 1) Amazon brings "Tap to Alexa" accessibility feature to Fire tablets for the first time (TechCrunch) 2) "Alexa, Should My Company Invest In Voice Technology?" (Harvard Business Review) 3) New Buzz Lightyear Toy Includes Conversational AI and Voice Recognition (Voicebot.ai) 4) Getty Images...

This Week In Voice (Season 6, Episode 11) Featuring guests Brad Hastedt (DataForce) and Andrei Papancea (NLX) Stories: 1) Spotify Rebrands Greenroom Social Audio as Spotify Live, Adds Livestream to Main App (Voicebot.ai) 2) Nest Hub Max may soon let you summon Google Assistant without saying a word (Android Central) 3) Enterprise Conversational AI Startup Observe.AI Raises $125M (Voicebot.ai) 4) You Can Now Tell Alexa to Plant a Tree for You (Make Use Of)

This Week In Voice (Season 6, Episode 10) Featuring guests Phil Hall (LXT.ai) and Lauren Cowles (Veritone) Stories for discussion: 1) Voice cloning technology may have been used in Pearland scam (KHOU-11, Houston TX) 2) Amazon's Alexa is becoming a member of the family (Fortune) 3) Restaurants leverage conversational AI to automate order taking (PYMNTS.com) 4) Your iPhone has ten Harry Potter 'spells' that really work with Siri (New York Post)