Voice-First News Roundup (3/1/19)
Voice-First News Roundup February 23 - March 1, 2019…
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.…
Giving Voice to Games: A Cross-Platform Survey of Voice Games
While Assistant had fewer titles, its top games rivaled those on Alexa in both popularity and user sentiment.…
Look Ma, No Hands: A Survey of Communication Apps on the Major Voice Platforms
In the midst of Facebook’s launch of its voice-activated smart camera and display (Portal from Facebook), we thought it’d be interesting to find out how communication apps were faring on the two major platforms (Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant).…
Barking Orders: A Survey of the Top Voice Shopping Apps
To delve deeper into the state of voice shopping we decided to analyze the shopping categories of both the Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant stores for interesting trends and data points.…
How Weather Affects the Voice Ecosystem
To find out what’s tickling the fancy of weather aficionados worldwide (and to find out, what, if any, differences exist between platforms), we decided to analyze the weather categories of both the Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant stores.…
Pulse Labs goes to Google I/O '18
This past week a couple of us were lucky enough to head to Mountain View, CA to attend Google I/O. What a great time! Here are seven sessions we think you'll find really helpful!…
Announcing an investment from Google and Progress on our Support for Google Assistant App Voice Testing
Pulse Labs has been working closely with the product and engineering teams at Google to integrate the Pulse Labs platform into the Google developer ecosystem…