Ridley Scott's Blade Runner: The Voice-First Future is Now
Ridley Scott's Blade Runner film is set in the future: November 2019. This means that the future of Blade Runner is now, and I wonder: how much of the tech did it get right?…
Voice-First News Roundup 10.28.19
BBC reinvents smart speaker news delivery; Noelle LaCharite to join NPR as Vice President of Digital Technology; Food Network Kitchen launches; Pay utility bills via Alexa; Congrats to the 2019 Alexa Accelerator class!; and Save-the-Date for 'Voice Personality Workshop' by WiV-Seattle.…
Voice-First News Roundup 10.7.19
Microsoft joins the earbud race; Alexa to launch in Brazil; Alexa goes multilingual; podcasts, upcoming events, and more.…
Voice-First News Roundup 9.17.19
Voice-First News Roundup for September 8-17: Apple's annual fall product launch; Amazon's big hardware extravaganza; Microsoft's Surface event; Amazon crowdsources and gamifies Alexa answers; McDonald's acquires Apprente; Hearables Are the New Wearables, says IDC; and WiV launches in NYC…
Pottermore and Google Partner Up to Help you Find Your Way Back to Hogwarts
"Hey Google, Tell me a Harry Potter story." Pottermore Publishing partners with Google to allow readers to access a chapter from Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone with a simple spoken command on Google Assistant enabled devices.…
Voice-First News Roundup 8.26.19
Voice-First Roundup for August 18-25. Loup Ventures publishes its Annual Digital Assistant IQ Test report; IKEA makes major bet on smart home technology; Google Assistant Assignables; State Farm skill checks in on aging relatives.…
Voice-First News Roundup 8.12.19
Voice-First News Roundup: August 6-11. Alexa speech speed controls; Smart speaker market growth dominated by sub-$50 models; Donate school supplies via Alexa; How Alexa can help patients with dementia; Google makes podcasts easier to find…
Voice-First News Roundup 8.5.19
Every week we bring you a selection of the previous week's most buzzworthy headlines on voice-first and related topics. July 28 - August 5.…
VOICE Summit 2019 Wrap Up Pt. 2
In Part 1 of the VOICE 19 post we discussed the pre-session workshops and event kickoff keynote. In Part 2 we will write about some of the panels and presentations attended by our team. With nearly three hundred sessions, VOICE 19 reflects just how much the voice space is growing.…
VOICE Summit 2019 Wrap Up Pt. 1
Last week, members of the Pulse Labs team spent four days fully immersed in VOICE Summit 2019. Held at the campus of NJIT in Newark, the Summit boasted 350 speakers offering 280 sessions on a wide-range of topics ranging from accessibility, to advertising, analytics, broadcasting, design, UX, security, and sonic…