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The Voicebot Podcast

Alan Nichol CTO and Co-founder of Rasa - Voicebot Podcast Ep 157

Jul 5, 2020

Alan Nichol co-founded Rasa in December 2016. Rasa began life as an open source NLU for chatbots and has expanded to other features, including voice interactivity. The company raised $13 million in venture funding in 2019 and came back about twelve months later with a $26 million funding round in 2020 after showing...

Punit Soni Founder and CEO of Suki the Voice Assistant for Healthcare - Voicebot Podcast Ep 156

Jun 28, 2020

Punit Soni is founder and CEO of Suki. The company provides a specialty voice assistant for doctors and other clinicians and he elaborates how its features go beyond the earlier technologies associated with medical dictation and transcription. The company was founded in 2017 and has raised more than $40 million since...

Mike Zagorsek of SoundHound Discusses What it Takes to Deploy a Custom Voice Assistant - Voicebot Podcast Ep 155

Jun 21, 2020

Mike Zagorsek is vice president of product marketing at SoundHound. Prior to SoundHound, Zagorsek was head of product marketing at Square and Leap Motion, and before that was Director of Interactive at Apple. Way back in 1999, he was a Manager at Sapient where he helped companies enter the digital age much like he is...

Hey Swisscom Custom Voice Assistant Launch Journey with Riccardo Lopetrone and Misha Zivkovic - Voicebot Podcast 154

Jun 15, 2020

Voice at Swisscom began in 2015 with a voice interactive TV remote. The voice assistant Hey Swisscom emerged five years later in November 2019. Misha Zivkovic and Riccardo Lopetrone learned a lot in both versions of their voice-enabled products and they share the details behind the voice assistant in today's...

BBC Head of Voice and AI Andy Webb Discusses the Custom Voice Assistant Beeb - Voicebot Podcast Ep 153

Jun 7, 2020

Andy Webb is head of product for voice and AI at BBC Worldwide as VP of Product Strategy. BBC has been a pioneer in supporting consumer assistants globally such as Amazon's Alexa and Google Assistant. It is prominent in the UK but also provides skills and Actions in many other countries as well. It is also one of the...