Own The Conversation - Issue #9
Martyn Redstone
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Conversations To Own
Articles and news that might interest you. Actually, I thought I would do something different this week. I run a LinkedIn page, which has a continuous stream of Conversational AI -related news. So listed below is the most popular articles from this week.
William Shatner 'AI' will chat with you about the 'Star Trek' actor's life | Live Science
Conversational video technology enables AI-powered back-and-forth between viewers and prerecorded responses.
Google adds voice biometrics to Contact Center AI platform | Biometric Update
Google has updated its Contact Center Artificial Intelligence (CCAI) platform to bring voice biometrics and conversational AI to call center applications.
Growth of these AI-powered tools is rising, but they get mixed reviews. When they come up short, the problem usually isn’t the technology.
Sensory Releases Speech Recognition Models for Children | audioXpress
Sensory announced availability of new custom trained speech recognition models that understand the unique linguistic patterns associated with children’s speech. This new children’s speech recognizer unlocks a higher level of accuracy and privacy for apps, toys, kid’s wearables, and education technologies, all key market segments for voice interface applications that Sensory is targeting.
Speech Recognition Engineer Armin Saeb brings you the fifth installment of our “Lessons from Our Voice Engine” series, featuring high-level insights from our Engineering and Speech Tech teams
Artificial Solutions raises SEK 250 million in credit to refinance existing debt and support continued growth
www.investors.artificial-solutions.com
Xina AI, an Arabic Conversational AI platform that automates customer support queries, announced today it has raised $1 million in the Seed round. The investment is to support expansion across the region and further strengthen Xina’s intellectual property development.
YouTube testing Google Assistant integration on Android that offers search suggestions
YouTube is testing the ability to “get suggestions for topics related to videos you’re watching” on Android from Google Assistant…
Latest updates on Azure Neural TTS: new voices for casual conversations
Neural Text to Speech (Neural TTS), a powerful speech synthesis capability of Cognitive Services on Azure, enables you to convert text to lifelike speech which is close to human-parity.
Since its launch, Azure Neural TTS has been widely applied to all kinds of scenarios, from voice assistants to news reading and audiobook creation, etc. and we have seen more customer requests to support natural conversations that are casual and less formal. Today we are glad to announce a few updates on Neural TTS with a focus on the new voices that are optimized for casual conversation scenarios.
Latest Jobs
Phenom is hiring a Machine Learning - Intern (Hyderabad, Telangana, India)
Intercom is hiring a Senior Design Manager (Dublin, Ireland)
LivePerson is hiring a Solutions Architect - Remote (United States)
Sr. Technical Program Manager, Natural Language Understanding
Amazon is hiring a Sr. Technical Program Manager, Natural Language Understanding (Seattle, WA, USA)
See more jobs at Bot Jobs.
Who's Talking
Podcasts and events (virtual and IRL) of interest.
Podcasts and Interviews
Conversational AI - Do Robots Listen Better? - Garreth Chandler | Interstellar Business Show #15
Garreth Chandler is the Founder & CEO of The Evolved Group. A company that specialises in Conversational AI.-By 2026 most companies will have adopted AI and …
Listen to this episode from One on One Interviews on Spotify. Many of you who are into gaming or serious video editing know NVIDIA as creators of the leading graphics processing technology on the market. But NVIDIA is also a leader in the areas of artificial intelligence and deep learning; specifically in how these technologies can improve how we experience graphics, text and video synthesis, and conversational AI. Some of their work was showcased in a series of videos they’ve put together called I AM AI which are a compelling look at what is (and what will be) available to us to improve how we experience the world – and each other. Join Bryan Catanzaro, Vice President, Applied Deep Learning Research at NVIDIA, to hear more about their work with AI to reimagine how we experience sights and sounds.
Episode 5: Making conversations work by Open Dialogues
Featuring linguist and conversation design expert Maaike Groenewege. In this episode we explore:
* Maaike Groenewege’s journey into conversation design
* Content modelling and its impact on conversation design
* How machine learning and upfront modelling fit together
* New language models beyond intents & entities
* and of course, stroopwafels!
Upcoming Events
AI Changing the relationship between human and machine | Wonderland AI Summit 2021
Wonderland AI Summit 2020
Winning Skillsets For Conversational AI (take 2) | LinkedIn
[Take 2 because we had a technical glitch the last time]
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.
The interview will be viewable on LinkedIn.
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Conversation Design Festival 2nd Edition 2021 - Nov 29 | Hopin
The 2nd edition Conversation Design Festival
THE EUROPEAN CHATBOT & CONVERSATIONAL AI SUMMIT 2nd EDITION
Conversational AI, Chatbots, Virtual Assistants, Voice & Conversation Design Hybrid Conference
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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.
Unfortunately nobody wanted to share anything this week.
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Closing notes
I hope you enjoyed Issue #9. Hoping that this builds and improves with every issue. A few of you have been in touch after I shared my recent weight loss journey with the world. Appreciating the kind comments and it’s pushing me forward to achieve more. Let me know your thoughts 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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