Own The Conversation - Issue #1
Martyn Redstone
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Martyn
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Conversations To Own
Articles and news that might interest you
Conversation Design Job Interview in 20 Minutes with Elaine
Botmock has partnered with conversation designer Elaine Anzaldo to give you a 20 minute run-down of what a conversation design job interview could look like!
How Conversational Service Automation is Changing the CX Game
How Conversational Service Automation is Changing the CX Game
How this San Francisco-headquartered open-source platform is providing a chatbot to NGOs
How this San Francisco-headquartered open-source platform is providing a chatbot to NGOs
The Chatbot Problem | The New Yorker
As we teach computers to use natural language, we are bumping into the inescapable biases of human communication.
Great article shared on LinkedIn by Syd Lawrence
Chatbots Then and Now: The Unlikely Evolution | Landbot
What’s the difference between the bots of today and those 5 years ago? Learn what turned bots from a flow into success. A refreshing take on the conversational space by Cris Villar
Understand how Rasa Framework works
Rasa is a python framework that helps us to build any kind of Chatbot easily. It based on NLU (Natural Language Processing) which offer the possibility to understand what the user want. Let’s discover it.
Which Data Annotation Companies are Best to Provide NLP and Transcription Services?
Which Data Annotation Companies are Best to Provide NLP and Transcription Services ?
Data annotation companies are basically involved in annotating the different types of data available in the various formats like text, images and videos etc. And the data annotation process is done to create the training datasets for machine learning and AI model developments.
Heyday Joins Hootsuite to Build the Future of Social Commerce
Social media management platform Hootsuite has purchased conversational AI startup Heyday for about $48 million ($60 million Canadian).
Yellow.ai Raises $78.15M to Deliver Total Customer Experience Automation - yellow.ai
Enterprise conversational AI startup Yellow.ai has closed a $78.15 million Series C funding round led by WestBridge Capital.
Conversational AI Leader Senseforth.ai Raises $14 Million from Fractal - AiThority
Conversational AI Leader Senseforth.ai Raises $14 Million from Fractal
Conversocial Acquisition Will Enhance Verint Customer Engagement Platform with Additional Social and Messaging Channels and Further Expand its Conversational AI Capabilities
Latest Jobs
CURRENT OPENINGS AT THE BOT PLATFORM We are currently hiring for UK and US based roles in our product and sales teams
Voiceflow is the leading tool to design, prototype, and launch voice and conversation experiences. Get to know the team and the mission behind the design tool.
AI Conversation Designer (Spanish Speaking)
Drift is the Revenue Acceleration platform that uses Conversational Marketing and Conversational Sales to help companies grow revenue and increase customer lifetime value, faster.
Fresh of the back of their recent acquisition, Heyday are hiring for 20+ roles. Check them out.
Product Owner – Conversational AI
CVS Health is hiring a Product Owner – Conversational AI
Head of Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Botpress is hiring a Head of Natural Language Processing (NLP)
See more jobs at Bot Jobs.
Who's Talking
Podcasts and events (virtual and IRL) of interest.
Podcasts
For Issue #1, I thought I would list out some podcasts to subscribe to, if you haven’t already:
The Voicebot Podcast with Bret Kinsella - Voicebot.ai
The Conversation Design Podcast - Interviews about Voice UX and chatbot design
Every month, we interview experts in the field and we ask them about their creative process, their background, their insights, and their challenges. Before the podcast is recorded, our community decides questions they would like to ask to our guests.
Dr. Ronald Ashri (Founder, OpenDialog) and Maaike Coppens (Chief Design Officer, OpenDialog) share their take on conversation design, conversational applications, conversational AI and much more with featured expert guests.
Voice Tech Podcast - Interviews and articles about voice technology
Listen to conversations with voice technology experts, and boost your knowledge and technical skills. Learn from #voicefirst professionals about voice interfaces, voice assistants, chatbots, alexa, machine learning, data science and AI.
Design for Voice is a podcast dedicated to sharing knowledge about building meaningful voice experiences.
A series where we sit down with people who build for Google Assistant. The goal is to have conversations about our guest’s insights and learnings from their …
VUX World Podcast • The best in the business sharing the tricks of the trade, every week.
Upcoming Events
Designing Conversational Experiences with Constraints
Conversational Collective presents Designing Conversational Experiences with Constraints - Wednesday, August 18, 2021
Best Practices in Conversational AI Design
Join conversational design leaders from Amazon, Alexa, and AWS as we discuss best practices in conversational AI design. Building conversational interfaces can be challenging given the free form nature of communication and unstructured data.
Closing notes
I hope you enjoyed Issue #1. Hoping that this builds and improves with every issue. Let me know your thoughts by DM on LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram or even TikTok (not that I have worked that one out yet!).
Personally, I am currently in and out of various parts of the UK with the family. Attempting to keep fit and healthy by experimenting with intermittent fasting, cutting carbs and keeping the running up - which you can see on Strava.
Have a great week ahead!
Martyn
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