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The remarkable uptake of smart speakers in homes in recent years is testament to the rapidly maturing voice first automation space. Household penetration in the U.S. is growing fast and customers are comfortable having them around. The stakes are high as evident by the trend in global revenues for the smart speaker market. Gaining unfettered …
I’m as guilty of confirmational bias as the next voice entrepreneur and wholeheartedly accept Gartner’s prediction that by 2023, 25 percent of employee interactions with applications will be via voice, up from under 3 percent in 2019. As workloads and expectations on employees increase, so will their need for tools to free up time for …
There’s an old children’s game around the world variously called “Telephone” or perhaps ironically; “Messenger”. Some places West, you may know it as “Chinese whispers” or “téléphone arabe”. In the game, the first player in the line whispers a message to the next player in line until the last player who announces the message she …
Smart speakers have surprised many people in how quickly they have become mainstream and have driven acceptance of voice. Voicebot’s survey in January 2019 showed smart speaker adoption reached 29% of the adult population in Australia compared to 26% in the USA at the end of 2018. Canalys’s latest report predicts the global units installed …
Continue reading Adoption of Voice – at work but not the workplace
The discussions within the Verbz team are firmly in the Voice First camp. We have long believed in the rise of voice first in the consumer market and eventually into the workplace. Voice input is one of the most natural and intuitive means of user interaction we have. Using one’s voice to make a request …
Continue reading Working with Voice – Voice First not Voice Only
When I met Jake for the first time, he was only 4 years old (he’s 7 now). He’s an adorable little nephew of my partner’s who lives in Canberra, Australia. At the age of 4, he was an expert at big game fishing. He knew what bait to use for catching Tuna, or Swordfish, or …
Continue reading Self directed learning – How a little boy learned to fish.
But to be fair, Siri isn't designed to be good at work. Time is flying, we've been in Lisbon for a full month with Techstars and Semapa. These first weeks have been full of great mentors and other teams from all over the world, experiencing the pressure to move our product forward, and at the …
