Report: Is Voice Search a Leading Indicator of Consumer Sentiment?
An analysis of thousands of Alexa queries across March and April provide a new first-hand window into consumer questions, concerns, hopes, and fears as the pandemic has unfolded.…
Pulse Labs and Kantar Partnership
Pulse Labs is excited to announce our partnership with Kantar, the world's leading data, insights, and consulting company, as we work to improve the voice ecosystem for everyone by understanding how real people use their voice assistant-enabled devices.…
The Great Ad Contest
The Super Bowl is the number one television advertising event of the year, and many viewers are more interested in the awesome new ads they'll see than in the game itself! This excitement has led to the creation of some of the most famous, funny, and familiar ads of all time.…
2/3/19
On Friday, January 25th Amazon released a series of teaser clips about a top secret beta testing program for new Alexa technologies. No information about the results of this program have been announced, except for a cryptic and tantalizing invitation to turn into the "big game" on 2/3/19.…
Word Mine Wins The Grand Prize in the Alexa Skills Challenge
Word Mine by Sensible Object has won the GRAND PRIZE in the Alexa Skills Challenge!!!…
Alexa Education Skills for Kids
Pulse Labs has published a report on the state of Alexa education skills for kids. The report provides an overview of the landscape for these skills, and then does a deep dive into usability testing results for five skills.…
Pulse Labs at re:Invent
Pulse Labs had the opportunity and the honor of attending re:Invent this year and co-presenting a talk with Alexa evangelist Paul Cutsinger on "Alexa Skill Developer Tools: Build Better Skills Faster"…
Pulse Labs Founders on the VUX World Podcast!
The Pulse Labs cofounders Abhishek Suthan and Dylan Zwick were guests on the VUX World podcast, and their interview is now available! You can check it out here - https://vux.world/vui-design-best-practice/…
Is the voice ecosystem built for all voices? - "Accents" on Alexa
Do you have an accent, or do other people? Dealing with all these variations appropriately is one of the hard problems faced by all voice platforms.…
Alexa Champion throws strikes with Pulse Labs
Baseball and summer are a 150-year-old tradition, and still going strong. The Seventh Inning Stretch skill from Terren Peterson, an Alexa Champion, celebrates that history by inviting you to play ball. Last year, Peterson published a useful and prescient article about the difficulty of testing voice applications. So this year,…