The Voicebot Podcast

Chris Maeda CTO of Botco on Bots and eCommerce - Voicebot Podcast Ep 249

Mar 31, 2022

Chris Maeda has an undergraduate degree in computer science from MIT and a PhD from Carnegie Mellon. He was hacking LISP machines in the late 1980s in his first AI job and then moved onto the famed Xerox PARC.

After that, he wound up doing a lot of customer relationship management software startups including...

Chris Ume Co Founder of Metaphysic.ai and Creator of Deep Tom Cruise - Voicebot Podcast Ep 248

Mar 25, 2022

Chris Ume is a visual effects expert with many years experience in entertainment and corporate projects. In 2020, he began experimenting with deep fake technology, sourcing AI models from obscure Russian websites, and experimenting with new techniques. That led to a collaboration with an American actor known for Tom...

Max Child CEO of Volley on Voice Games and the Matchbox Acquisition - Ep 247

Mar 13, 2022

Max Child makes his third appearance on the Voicebot Podcast to discuss the evolution of the voice games market as well as Volley's recent acquisition of Matchbox.io.

Matchbox is the creator of the popular Alexa game Question of the Day and Max outlines Volley's strategy behind the purchase and how it fits into the...

Kundan Kumar Head of AI at Descript - Voicebot Podcast Ep 246

Mar 5, 2022

Kunden Kumar is head of AI at Descript. He was a co-founder of the innovative synthetic speech company Lyrebird which Descript acquired in 2019.

He has a PhD in artificial intelligence from the University of Montreal and a computer science degree from IIT. Kumar was also a researcher at the Montreal Institute for...