Own The Conversation - Issue #25
Martyn Redstone
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Conversations To Own
Articles and news that might interest you.
Google Cloud’s new visual interface for Speech-to-Text API | Google Cloud Blog
We’re excited to announce the general availability of our intuitive, new visual user interface for Google Cloud’s Speech-to-Text (STT) API, right in Google Cloud Console, which makes the API much simpler and easier for developers to use.
The engineering behind Alexa's contextual speech recognition - Amazon Science
How Alexa scales machine learning models to millions of customers.
Amazon’s Big Game Commercial: Mind Reader
Is Alexa reading minds a good idea? No. No it is not. Watch the Superbowl commercial now.
Meet Cecilia, the world's first interactive robotic bartender
Cecilia.ai is the world’s first interactive robotic bartender. Powered by conversational AI and voice recognition abilities, Cecilia is not your typical bartender. She makes delicious crafted cocktails, chats with customers and even tells jokes.
Boost.ai Outlines Roadmap for Harnessing the Power of Conversational AI in Latest Webinar Series
Boost.ai hosted a webinar together with Zendesk to showcase how Boost.ai’s next generation AI has helped Zendesk customers develop and deploy artificially intelligent virtual agents through the availability of integrations with multiple Zendesk solutions.
2022: The Era of conversation commerce
The key benefit of conversational commerce is in making the business more approachable and convenient for the customers. Consumers are increasingly looking at on-the-go and on-demand convenience. Most of these conversations are now driven by technology.
Despite recent progress, AI-powered chatbots still have a long way to go
Even state-of-the-art chatbots struggle to have a human-like conversation without tripping up, clearly. But as these systems improve, questions are arising about what the experience should ultimately look like.
LifeOmic Acquires Bavard, an Enterprise-Grade Conversational AI Platform
LifeOmic, a software company that leverages the cloud, machine learning and mobile devices to power precision health and wellness solutions announced it has acquired Bavard, a Utah-based conversational artificial intelligence (AI) company offering intelligent digital assistants and platforms.
Conversational AI: How Does it Work and Where it Is Headed?
The next person you speak with may not be a person at all. Welcome to the uncanny valley of conversational AI.
Pegasystems today announced Pega Voice AI and Messaging AI, two new solutions that analyze live customer service conversations in real time to help agents quickly resolve service requests with reduced manual effort.
New PS5 beta lets you use voice commands to start your games
Sony will begin rolling out its second PS5 software beta on Wednesday, bringing changes including party chat updates, new UI settings, and a preview of a voice command feature.
Everything You Must Know About Voice AI in Marketing
Voice recording and AI has the potential for comprehensive customer profiling, improved data analysis, and more targeted marketing campaigns.
Cavai Launch of Groundbreaking Conversational Video to Maximise Engagement and Impact
Cavai, has launched conversational video, a groundbreaking format designed to maximise engagement within digital advertising.
Conversational AI startup SalesKen raises USD 22 Mn in Series B
SalesKen, a sales conversation AI startup, has raised USD 22 million in a Series B. The funding round was led by M12, a venture fund owned by Microsoft and Sequoia Capital, an existing investor in the company. The company will use the funds to expand into the North American market and enhance and scale its proprietary deep-tech product.
Latest Jobs from Bot Jobs
See more jobs at Bot Jobs.
🚨FEATURED ROLE: Conversational AI Specialist @ Artificial Solutions - Bot Jobs
We are looking for a Conversational AI Specialist, who will guide our clients throughout their entire journey on our platform. We would be the best match if you have experience with conversational AI and scripting languages in a client-facing role! This is a full-time position based ideally in Spain or Sweden (or remote in Europe), and you will be joining our Customer Success team.
🚨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.
Voice User Interface- / Conversational Designer (w/m/x) @ BMW Group - Bot Jobs
Our department is responsible for the development of user experience and user interaction concepts for the BMW Group brands. We have made it our task to develop innovative products that emphasize the brand character and inspire customers with their extraordinary usability. We design across all touchpoints - from the vehicle to the app.
What awaits you? You take on the role of voice user interface design expert and develop new speech dialog concepts for the intelligent personal assistant of the BMW Group.
Conversation (AI) Designer - Fjord @ Fjord, Part of Accenture Interactive - Bot Jobs
Fjord are looking for a Conversational AI Designer to join a new team dedicated to expanding the practice of conversational design — and supporting our local studios across Europe. Even though conversational technology abounds in today’s world, we believe that we’re just starting to understand the best way to craft machine-human conversations. Our team will work with leading academics to conduct research and experimentation around conversational design, bringing fresh thinking and insights to our clients.
Conversational Engineer, Conversational Systems @ Apple - Bot Jobs
This is a fast-paced business with ambitious goals. You will be working with key conversational systems stakeholders across each of the critical pillars of Retail Contact Center (RCC)‘s customer support organization. You will create flow charts, mockups, and diagrams around conversational systems and related tools. Apply a broad range of user experience design skills (including Heuristic Evaluation and design thinking) to envision, design, illustrate, specify, test and validate conversational behaviors.
Senior Manager, Speech Science & Conversational AI @ Walgreens - Bot Jobs
Provides oversight and leadership for creating, configuring and optimizing speech technologies for Walgreens voice user experiences, including speech recognition, voice biometrics, chatbot and speech synthesis engines. By bringing thought leadership and expert knowledge of Natural Language Processing (NLP), this individual will create the strategy to evolve our experiences to best in class.
Who's Talking
Sonic Branding for Recruitment Marketing and Employer Branding Tickets, Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 2:30 PM
Eventbrite - pplbots presents Sonic Branding for Recruitment Marketing and Employer Branding - Wednesday, February 16, 2022
Conversational AI-Chatbots Online Networking Event
Online Networking Events About Conversational AI & Chatbots!
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.
Closing notes
Hugely busy week across both my recruitment and CAI brains (sometimes overlapping). Most of this week has been prepping for my exciting webinar next week (see above events).
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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