Own The Conversation - Issue #7
Martyn Redstone
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Conversations To Own
Articles and news that might interest you
Now Available: Alexa for Apps Send to Phone (Preview) and the AMAZON.SendToPhone Built-In Intent
Alexa skill developers can now enhance their customers’ voice experiences on any Alexa-enabled device in the home such as an Echo Dot or an Echo Show, by connecting them to content in apps and websites on their phone, using the new Alexa for Apps Send to Phone capability
The Ultimate Conversational AI Branding Guide
How do you get a team or even one person to write in a consistent brand voice for your conversational app?
It’s definitely not easy. Teams have to commit to exploring and defining their conversational brand. Learn how to create and maintain voice, tone, and persona for conversational apps with this comprehensive conversational AI branding guide from voxable.io.
Conversational AI Making Headway in Powerful Healthcare Chatbots - AI Trends
An interesting and somewhat comprehensive overview of how chatbots are being used in healthcare today. Conversational AI chatbots are now being used widely in healthcare, from helping patients with medical consultations to diet coaching.
Ethics in Conversation Design: the Beginning of an Inclusive Conversation
Ethics in conversation design refers to the consideration of moral principles when designing and developing AI experiences. This is a topic that is not often discussed as part of the design process, perhaps because it’s difficult to talk about, or maybe is often ignored.
New ten-year plan to make the UK a global AI superpower - GOV.UK
National AI Strategy to boost business use of AI, attract international investment and develop next generation of tech talent
Amazon releases new dataset for commonsense dialogue - Amazon Science
This new dataset contains more than 11,000 newly collected dialogues to aid research in open-domain conversation.
Latest Jobs
See more jobs at Bot Jobs.
Recruitment Coordinator (12 Month FTC) @ LivePerson - Bot Jobs
In This Role You Will
Serve as point-of-contact for candidates and interview teams regarding interview schedules, changes, and problem-solving when last-minute changes occur Craft, upload and maintain compelling job postings on online Job Boards Coordinate and schedule candidate interviews with hiring managers and interview teams
Product Manager, NLU @ SoundHound Inc. - Bot Jobs
The Product Manager, NLU will support the development of the best in class Natural Language Understanding (NLU) at SoundHound Inc. You will work with engineers to research options, provide recommendations, outline requirements, and help drive projects to completion.
Bot Analyst (Contract) @ LivePerson - Bot Jobs
In this role you will:
Work with major enterprise brands to build and improve effective, engaging, and easy-to-use chatbots Research and analyze intents and the associated customer journeys to determine performance in achieving resolution
Conversational Designer @ CapTech Consulting - Bot Jobs
CapTech’s Customer Experience (CX) team seeks a Conversational Designer to focus on designing chatbot experiences for our clients. This designer is passionate, possesses innate problem-solving and UX skills with a drive to align business objectives with data analysis findings.
Conversational AI Project Manager @ Allianz Technology - Bot Jobs
You, as a future CCS CAI Project Manager will be responsible for managing international VoiceBot project(s). You will be in charge for managing international implementation projects from setting up the project orga, calculating the project business case and designing as well as executing the implementation roadmap.
Who's Talking
Podcasts and events (virtual and IRL) of interest.
Podcasts and Interviews
Talking Shop | New podcast launched by James Poulter
New podcast launched by James Poulter of Vixen Labs. Subscribe today, the content should be amazing.
Episode 1: The numbers have spoken — 91% of voice consumers are using voice search via a website, mobile app, or smart speaker. In this episode, James is joined by Jon Stine, executive director at the Open Voice Network, and Susan and Scot Westwater, co-founders at Pragmatic Digital, to discuss this and some other key findings in the Voice Consumer Index 2021, recently compiled by Vixen Labs in partnership with the Open Voice Network.
VOICE Talks | VUX World’s Kane Simms explains the benefit of designing AI to “listen better”
Here it is folks. The full episode of Voice Talks that is creating quite the stir on LinkedIn. Kane Simms, founder of VUX World, discusses what companies are doing to re-cast the framework of conversation design.
Upcoming Events
Winning Skillsets For Conversational AI (take 2) | LinkedIn
Hans van Dam, CEO & founder of the Conversation Design Institute, will join this Botrepreneurs broadcast to discuss what it takes to develop winning skillsets for Conversational AI.
Conversation Design Festival 2nd Edition 2021 - Nov 30 | Hopin
The 2nd edition Conversation Design Festival was announced this week by the Conversation Design Institute. Sign up early, while you can.
Leading Conversations in AI: Extended intelligence & humans with machines | LinkedIn
Deloitte AI Institute presents conversations on applied AI innovation across industries, with cutting-edge insight, to promote human-machine collaboration in the Age of With™.
FCAIS | Conversational AI | Artificial Intelligence | Chatbots
Future of Conversational AI is a networking event that will invite visionary speakers, leaders, and key decision-makers from across industries in order to explore & address the various challenges & opportunities associated with Conversational AI.
THE EUROPEAN CHATBOT & CONVERSATIONAL AI SUMMIT 2nd EDITION
Conversational AI, Chatbots, Virtual Assistants, Voice & Conversation Design hybrid conference.
Bot Jobs is a proud sponsor. Come and visit our virtual booth!
Closing notes
My youngest daughter has been settling into her first month at school, which has meant half days for September. While looking forward to getting back to some sort of normality, it’s been interesting attempting to be as productive working part-time as I am working full-time. Any hints?
Also, hands up if you’re an Oculus Quest 2 user? I’ve been trying to experiment with Horizons Workrooms, but keep getting messages saying that my Facebook account isn’t in good standing. I’ve no idea what this means or what to do about it. Any readers got any advice? Have you tried it out yet?
I hope you enjoyed Issue #7. Hoping that this builds and improves with every issue. Let me know your thoughts (or boxset recommendations) by DM on LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram or even TikTok (not that I have worked that one out yet!).
Have a great week ahead!
Martyn, Founder @ bot-jobs.com
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