Own The Conversation - Issue #21
Martyn Redstone
Welcome to the first Own The Conversation!
Own The Conversation is a weekly, manually curated newsletter with all the news in the world of Conversational AI.
From interesting articles to funding news and the latest jobs. I hope you get everything you need, and more, from this newsletter.
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Martyn @ bot-jobs.com
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Conversations To Own
Articles and news that might interest you.
How to Rate a Voicebot: 5 Questions to Consider
Based on years of real-world experience in voicebot creation, Dr. Ahmed Bouzid crafts five basic questions to consider when building and succeeding with voicebots.
How was my pitch, Jenny? Zoom's venture fund invests in conversational AI platform
Second Nature uses natural language processing and subject matter experts to build sales skills and product knowledge.
LG's virtual human is a singer now: Welcome to the mind-bending world of Reah Keem
LG has signed a memorandum of understanding with entertainment company Mystic Story for its virtual influencer Reah Keem’s debut as a singer.
A smart speaker voice assistant named ‘Kimi’ stars as a murder witness in an upcoming film
Tech Billionaire Romesh Wadhwani Replaces Himself As CEO As He Considers Taking SymphonyAI Public
Tech billionaire Romesh Wadhwani steps aside as CEO of his enterprise AI group SymphonyAI in favor of Sanjay Dhawan, former CEO of publicly traded Cerence.
Think A ‘Bot’ It: Conversational AI, XR, and Fashion
Imagining a high tech-mixed reality fashion future with intentional multimodal design and Conversational AI. A great piece by Elaine Anzaldo.
Will Artificial Intelligence Be Taking Your Next Drive-Thru Order?
Many people have experienced ordering fast food in a drive-thru and opening the bag later to find their French fries are missing, or their burgers are covered in ketchup they did not want. Artificial intelligence (AI) may make ordering food through a talking box easier, faster and more accurate.
Conversational Banking Is So Much More than “What’s My Account Balance?”
The opportunity with conversational banking isn’t being able to ask, “What’s my account balance?” while sitting around the dinner table or “Where’s the nearest branch location?” from your navigation-equipped smartphone.
Could Alexa or Siri Make Your Kid Bossy? Here's What Scientists Say
Study finds if talking to Alexa, Siri or Google Assistant can make children bossy.
Latest Jobs from Bot Jobs
See more jobs at Bot Jobs.
Featured Role: AI Trainer @ Conversation Design Institute
The AI Trainer turns data into understanding. They identify and prioritize intents for automation. It is the more technical counterpart of the conversation designer. This person works with conversational AI technologies, analytics platforms, and tools that will help improve the understanding of the AI Assistant .
You’ll receive training when starting this position. Expect a steep learning curve.
Featured Role: Conversational Designer @ Botpress
As Conversation Designer and reporting to the Head of Product, you will be responsible for designing the user experience of Botpress virtual assistants/chatbots (both for our customers and our customer-facing templates).
Who's Talking
Podcasts and events (virtual and IRL) of interest.
Podcasts and Interviews
How to Supercharge Your #Healthcare Professional and Patient #Engagement
Dr John Reeves, the Founder and CEO of Conversation Health, a #conversationAI company, and Richard Marcil, the COO, discussed how their platform uses NLP and Machine Learning to facilitate far greater HCP and Patient access and engagement than traditional and other digital approaches.
Google Cloud: 'We are a toolset to make companies better'
The cloud giant’s executives are trying to look down the road at “What do we think, on an ongoing basis, is going to happen over the next two to three years” in a given industry.
Upcoming Events
SELF PROMOTION: Open Demo - Jenna Tickets, Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 10:00 AM
pplbots partners with some of the best, yet undiscovered technology in the market and now we want to bring that in front of you in 2022.
Join Martyn Redstone from pplbots (plbots.com) and Lior Romanowsky from Jenna (jenna.ai) as they introduce you to Jenna - the Conversational AI-Powered automated recruitment screening platform.
This short session will involve a pitch, full demo of the technology and the opportunity for viewers to ask questions.
OpenDialog Opens their events doors!
You’re into conversation design? You’ve heard of OpenDialog?
YES! Well, that means you check all the boxes to attend our virtual Advanced Conversation Design Workshop on 18th January 2022.
In this workshop, Maaike Coppens will teach you to transform a high-level use case into a dynamic, sophisticated conversation using OpenDialog. You will learn about key concepts like ‘Conversations to be had’, turn-switching and more! Oh, and did we mention we have a little surprise announcement for those that attend the workshop!!! It’s one not to miss.
#Convocollective presents: New Year, New Bot - Wed, Jan 19, 2022
Hear from conversational AI experts on how they’re enhancing and leveling up their conversational products in 2022.
In this panel, we’ll discuss:
Trending use cases, tools, and strategies for voice, messaging, and multimodal products. Impacted industry sectors including Health and Wellness, Customer Service, and more.
THE EUROPEAN CHATBOT & CONVERSATIONAL AI SUMMIT 2nd EDITION
March 1st & 2nd 2022
Online & Hybrid!
Chatbots, AI & VOICE Conference 2022 @Metaverse
Join us in the Metaverse and network with the top industry experts from companies like Google, Amazon, Walmart.
Advantest VOICE – Advantest Developer Conference
Each year, the VOICE Developer Conference unites semiconductor test professionals representing the world’s leading integrated device manufacturers (IDMs), foundries, fabless semiconductor companies and outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) providers to exchange information about the latest technology advancements, express new ideas, share best practices and network with one another.
4th World Chatbots Summit | Luxatia International
Join us and global executives as we return for our 4th Annual World Chatbots Summit in Berlin, Germany on May 19th and 20th. This edition will focus on expanding the range of chatbot’s internal and external use cases, adding a human touch into NLP technology and overcoming ethical and security issues.
Conversational AI Summit | RE•WORK
Discover advances in NLP, and how application can help create digital assistants, chatbots and conversational interfaces to improve customer experience & increase engagement
PEVoC14 Conference will take place live on 24-27 August 2022
The 14th Pan-European Voice Conference has been postponed and will take place on 24-27 August 2022 in Tallinn, Estonia. The conference will take place in the new building of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre.
What are you up to?
This is a new feature dedicated to showcasing what some of you readers are up to. Get in touch to get some airtime around what you are up to.
Nobody took the opportunity to tell us about any interesting projects, job moves, research or other activities.
This is your space to tell the Conversational AI world what’s new and exciting with you, so please let me know by DM or email.
Closing notes
So, this was the week where I was ‘banned’ from LinkedIn for 3-days. The week from hell is a better way to describe it. I’m still not sure what happened. I am being told that it was down to me using LinkedIn-based automation, but I haven’t used any for some time. Maybe I’m just starting to turn into a ‘bot’ 🤔
I’m hoping that this newsletter keeps building and improving with every issue. Let me know your thoughts, feedback and ideas of what you want to see by DM on LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram or even TikTok (not that I have worked that one out yet!).
Martyn, Founder @ bot-jobs.com
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