EPISODE · Jul 16, 2019 · 37 MIN
Why Voice is the New Input for All Our Devices with Dan O'Connell
from HumAIn Podcast · host David Yakobovitch
[Audio] Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSSDan O'Connell is the chief strategy officer for Dialpad, and also is a member of the board. He previously was also the CEO of a real-time speech analytics and natural language processing startup TalkIQ, which Dialpad acquired about a year ago. He has held leadership positions at Google and AdRollEpisode Links: Dan O’Connell’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/droconnell/ Dan O’Connell’s Twitter: @DialpadHQDan O’Connell’s Website: https://www.dialpad.com/ Podcast Details: Podcast website: https://www.humainpodcast.comApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/humain-podcast-artificial-intelligence-data-science/id1452117009Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6tXysq5TzHXvttWtJhmRpSRSS: https://feeds.redcircle.com/99113f24-2bd1-4332-8cd0-32e0556c8bc9YouTube Full Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxvclFvpPvFM9_RxcNg1ragYouTube Clips: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxvclFvpPvFM9_RxcNg1rag/videosSupport and Social Media: – Check out the sponsors above, it’s the best way to support this podcast– Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/humain/creators – Twitter: https://twitter.com/dyakobovitch– Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/humainpodcast/– LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidyakobovitch/– Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HumainPodcast/– HumAIn Website Articles: https://www.humainpodcast.com/blog/Outline: Here’s the timestamps for the episode: (00:00) – Introduction(02:22) –TalkIQ where we're building a real speech recognition engine(03:25) – Dialpad sell is designed specifically for sales organizations(05:01) – Political Marketing: Now you can use these technologies to actually quantify voters’ data(06:02) – Speech recognition and natural language processing now help you understand what's happening in those conversations and really unique ways that are going to allow you to drive better decision-making(06:58) – Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, about voice, they're really focused on consumer devices(10:31) – There's definitely a trend to more businesses being more open to having remote employees or just teams really spread throughout the world. These technologies are allowing that to actually happen(10:56) – There are definitely opportunities to build remote teams. It presents a really difficult challenges around culture and connectedness as well transforming industries(15:16) – We don't have the winning VR app yet(17:15) – 5G is going to be the game changer that we all hope it to be and expect it to be(22:09) – The beauty of open source software and places like GitHub is that you can go and learn and it doesn't cost you anything(26:56) – The landline is dying, but the telephone is not. They're trying to hold on to some of these services perhaps because of some business pressure(28:50) – People want the freedom of mobility(32:48) – AI speech recognition and LP, use these technologies to augment in-person experiences(35:40) – if you're running a fully remote team, you really have to focus on over communicatingAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
What this episode covers
Today’s guest speaker is a Leader in Speech Recognition for Voice systems. Listen in as Dan O’Connell of Dialpad and I discuss about Why Voice is the New Input for All Our Devices, How Real-time Speech Recognition at Dialpad Improves Conversations, and What Organizations Can do to Build Cultures for the Modern Worker. This is HumAIn. You can support the HumAIn podcast and receive subscriber-only content at www.humainpodcast.com/subscribe. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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