The Voice Box

Rich Linder, founder of Xenter MD, talks with Darin and Jeff about Xenter’s novel offering for transcribing and reporting medical procedures.

Imagine a world where your computer can talk to you in plain language about what’s going on in your business, delivering insights and analysis in a format that’s clear and easy to understand. That’s the mission of Arria, and Lyndsee Manna tells us all about it in this episode.

What does a person do after 35 years in tech, including 12 years at Amazon, serving as VP of Kindle, Echo, and Alexa, and Jeff Bezos’s TA (“shadow”)? Well, in Ian Freed‘s case, you launch a voice-oriented company that will make a real difference. Bamboo Learning is the leader in conversation-based learning for children.

Yactraq bills itself as the value leader in conversational AI / speech analytics for contact centers. Jeff and Darin talk with Jeh Daruvula, Benjamin Land, Josh Ayres, and MK about how speech technology is being used in contact centers to improve the customer experience.

Speechly provides accurate, real-time speech recognition and natural language understanding tools under one flexible API.  In this episode, we speak with founder Otto Söderlund about what that means for consumers and businesses. And we talk a little bit about food & speech. Here is a demo of the kind of food ordering by voice that […]

How are mom’s carrot cookies similar to the Eastern Min dialect of Chinese? Daniel Zheng is on a mission to preserve Eastern Min with the help of speech technology. Despite having about 10 million speakers, the language is in danger of extinction in a generation or two, and Daniel is on a mission to reverse […]

Ahmed Bouzid has been building and delivering voice solutions his entire career. His company, Witlingo, helps other companies engage their audiences with voice on several levels. That might involve helping companies develop voice skills & interfaces, or providing tools to allow customers to share voice reviews and testimonials.

Constant Companion uses empathy, data and AI powered voice and video solutions to reinvent the way we care for the elderly and those who need in-home care. Their systems keep people more connected, engaged and protected, and help people live safer and more independent lives with dignity. Founder Mark Gray talks with us about the […]

Rene Arvin is the co-founder of VoiceScript, a new company that is transforming – and saving – the court transcription industry. Rene talks with Darin and Jeff about the origins of VoiceScript, and what we might expect to see in courtrooms and legal deposition proceedings of the near future.

As a platform enabler, Ken Sutton of Yobe see a future where voice is moving from a “nice to have” user interface to a “need to have” revenue generator. Yobe’s AI-powered platform is purpose-built for live crowds and noisy environments to identify and decode human voices. Modeled on human hearing, Yobe’s signal processing techniques substantially […]