In this episode, Roger talks with KQED's Senior Producer of Voice and AI, Lowell Robinson. Lowell and KQED have been very innovative with voice and have explored the interaction between humans and machines in depth. Lowell discusses KQED innovations, the challenges of voice,  and philosophically about man-machine interactions.

Links from the Show

• KQED - www.kqed.org
• The Voicebot Chronicles Skill - www.amazon.com/VoiceBot-Chronicles-KQED-Interactive/dp/B08433THZY
• Human or Machine Skill - https://www.amazon.com/KQED-Human-or-Machine/dp/B09SR98HY6

Keeping in Touch

• Lowell on LinkedIn- www.linkedin.com/in/lowellrobinson/
• Lowell on Twitter -  @lowellr

Host: Roger Kibbe
(@rogerkibbe) is a senior developer evangelist for Samsung www.linkedin.com/in/rkibbe

Episodes
All Bixby Developers Chat Episodes are available on your favorite podcast player and at:
bixbydev.buzzsprout.com

More about Bixby
Samsung Bixby is a next-generation AI platform that enables developers to build rich voice and conversational AI experiences for the Bixby Marketplace and Bixby devices, including phones, watches, televisions, smart appliances, and more.
Bixby Developers Homepage - https://bixbydevelopers.com/
Bixby Developers Github - https://github.com/bixbydevelopers
Bixby Developers YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/bixbydevelopers
Bixby Developers Twitter - twitter.com/BixbyDevelopers
Bixby Developers Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/BixbyDevelopers/

In this episode, Roger talks with entrepreneur Michael Novak. Michael and Roger discuss Michael's history with voice, his work with the Open Voice Network, voice and privacy, and  where and how Web3 and  the metaverse intersect with voice. As always Roger asks his guest to give his voice predictions at the end!

Keeping in Touch

• Michael on LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/iotmichaelnovak
• Michael on Twitter - @MisterNova

Host: Roger Kibbe
(@rogerkibbe) is a senior developer evangelist for Samsung
www.linkedin.com/in/rkibbe

Episodes
All Bixby Developers Chat Episodes are available on your favorite podcast player and at:
bixbydev.buzzsprout.com

More about Bixby
Samsung Bixby is a next-generation, AI platform that enables developers to build rich voice and conversational AI experiences for the Bixby Marketplace, and Bixby devices including phones, watches, televisions, smart appliances, and more.
Bixby Developers Homepage - https://bixbydevelopers.com/
Bixby Developers Github - https://github.com/bixbydevelopers
Bixby Developers YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/bixbydevelopers
Bixby Developers Twitter - twitter.com/BixbyDevelopers
Bixby Developers Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/BixbyDevelopers/

In this episode, Roger talks with his colleague at Samsung, Prasad Sethumadhavan. Prasad has had a career working with Microsoft Cortana, Amazon Alexa, and Samsung Bixby as well as earlier voice assistants like TellMe. Roger and Prasad discuss the state of voice, what is working and what isn't and why, and the future of voice.

Roger and Prasad discuss:

• Prasad's background
• TellMe - the "OG" telephone-based phone assistant
• B2B and B2C voice and how B2B is hot in voice now
• Voice Commerce
• Viv Labs and its next-gen voice platform
• Where Bixby was and is
• Voice and IOT devices/Smarthome
• How a virtual version of a human assistant is the ultimate goal
• The infamous Knowledge Navigator demo and how close we are
• Challenges with voice, discoverability, NLU needs, etc
• Web, mobile, and voice
• Prasad's hidden gem
• Prasad's 2022 and 10-year predictions

Keeping in Touch

• Prasad on LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/prasadsethumadhavan

Host: Roger Kibbe
(@rogerkibbe) is a senior developer evangelist for Samsung
www.linkedin.com/in/rkibbe

Episodes
All Bixby Developers Chat Episodes are available on your favorite podcast player and at:
bixbydev.buzzsprout.com

More about Bixby
Samsung Bixby is a next-generation, AI platform that enables developers to build rich voice and conversational AI experiences for the Bixby Marketplace, and Bixby devices including phones, watches, televisions, smart appliances, and more.
Bixby Developers Homepage - https://bixbydevelopers.com/
Bixby Developers Github - https://github.com/bixbydevelopers
Bixby Developers YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/bixbydevelopers
Bixby Developers Twitter - twitter.com/BixbyDevelopers
Bixby Developers Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/BixbyDevelopers/

In this episode, Roger talks with Tim Kahle and Dominik Meißner of 169 Labs. Tim and Dominik are voice OG's and have a long history of building compelling voice experiences.

Roger, Tim, and Dominik discuss:

• Their first experiences with voice
• Their infamous travel experiences getting to the seminal 2018 Alexa Conference
• How and why 169 Labs was founded
• Some early 169 Labs voice experiences
• The evolution of voice from 2017 to the present
• How user's expectations of voice have changed and have not changed
• Why simplicity wins
• Building voice apps for kids
• What industries in Germany are building voice experiences
• Voice industry adoption and usage in Germany and Europe
• What's holding back voice adoption
• Advances in voice technology and what's needed
• Tim and Dominik's hidden gem voice experiences
• Their prediction for the short term and long term future

Links from the Show

• 169 Labs - www.169labs.com
• All About Voice conferences and events - www.allaboutvoice.io

Keeping in Touch

• Tim on Twitter - @kahle
• Tim on LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/timkahle
• Dominik on Twitter - @d_meissner
• Dominik on LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/dominik-meissner
• 169 Labs on Twitter - @169labs

Host: Roger Kibbe
(@rogerkibbe) is a senior developer evangelist for Samsung
www.linkedin.com/in/rkibbe

Episodes
All Bixby Developers Chat Episodes are available on your favorite podcast player and at:
bixbydev.buzzsprout.com

More about Bixby
Samsung Bixby is a next-generation, AI platform that enables developers to build rich voice and conversational AI experiences for the Bixby Marketplace, and Bixby devices including phones, watches, televisions, smart appliances, and more.
Bixby Developers Homepage - https://bixbydevelopers.com/
Bixby Developers Github - https://github.com/bixbydevelopers
Bixby Developers YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/bixbydevelopers
Bixby Developers Twitter - twitter.com/BixbyDevelopers
Bixby Developers Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/BixbyDevelopers/

In this episode, Roger talks with Steve Tingiris, the CEO of Dabble Lab. Steve is an expert in voice development and has just published a book about using OpenAI's GPT-3

Roger and Steve discuss

• Steve's first experience with voice and how he started developing for it
• Steve's ambitious first Alexa skill
• What Steve's company, Dabble Lab does
• The opportunities in B2B and contact centers
• Steve's love for creating tutorials
• What GPT-3 is
• What GPT-3 is good at and an example GPT-3 based skill - Improv Partner
• How Improv Partner uses GPT-3 to content filter itself
• The challenges of using language models like GPT-3
• What GPT-3 isn't good at
• Codex and Copilot - Programming tools that will revolutionize developing software
• Using the right tools for the right job when developing
• How long Steve will be programming? Will he be programming in his 80's?
• Steve's hidden gem - something voice is very good at that too few people use
• Steve's short term and long term predictions
• Keeping in touch

Links from the Show
Dabble Lab - dabblelab.com
Open AI (GPT-3) - openai.com
Exploring GPT-3 (Steve's GPT-3 book) - www.packtpub.com/product/exploring-gpt-3/9781800563193
Improv Partner (Alexa Skill) - www.amazon.com/Dabble-Lab-Improv-Partner/dp/B09G49HW3L

Keeping in Touch
Steve on Twitter - @tingiris
Dabble Lab on Twitter - @dabblelab
Steve on LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/tingiris/

Host: Roger Kibbe
(@rogerkibbe) is a senior developer evangelist for Samsung
www.linkedin.com/in/rkibbe

Episodes
All Bixby Developers Chat Episodes are available on your favorite podcast player and at:
bixbydev.buzzsprout.com

More about Bixby
Samsung Bixby is a next-generation, AI platform that enables developers to build rich voice and conversational AI experiences for the Bixby Marketplace, and Bixby devices including phones, watches, televisions, smart appliances, and more.
Bixby Developers Homepage - https://bixbydevelopers.com/
Bixby Developers Github - https://github.com/bixbydevelopers
Bixby Developers YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/bixbydevelopers
Bixby Developers Twitter - twitter.com/BixbyDevelopers
Bixby Developers Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/BixbyDevelopers/
Bixby Developer News/Blogs - https://bixby.developer.samsung.com/

In this episode, Roger talks with Nick Myers, the CEO of Redfox AI. Redfox just introduced the V Lab voice assistant which solves a very challenging issue in health care.

Roger and Nick discuss

• Nick's professional background and how he started with Voice
• The founding of RedFox.AI and their pivots
• Nicks very personal story about V Lab and why it's so important to him
• Voice and the web - why it makes sense but why it hasn't gained traction
• Building an independent voice assistant
• Synthetic voices vs voice actors
• Nicks predictions for voice
• And much more . . . 

Links from the Show
RedFox.AI - redfox-ai.com

Keeping in Touch
Nick's e-mail - nick.myers@redfox-ai.com
Nick on Twitter - @therednickm
Nick on LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/nick-myers-0794

Host: Roger Kibbe
(@rogerkibbe) is a senior developer evangelist for Samsung
www.linkedin.com/in/rkibbe

Episodes
All Bixby Developers Chat Episodes are available on your favorite podcast player and at:
bixbydev.buzzsprout.com

More about Bixby
Samsung Bixby is a next-generation, AI platform that enables developers to build rich voice and conversational AI experiences for the Bixby Marketplace, and Bixby devices including phones, watches, televisions, smart appliances, and more.
Bixby Developers Homepage - https://bixbydevelopers.com/
Bixby Developers Github - https://github.com/bixbydevelopers
Bixby Developers YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/bixbydevelopers
Bixby Developers Twitter - twitter.com/BixbyDevelopers
Bixby Developers Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/BixbyDevelopers/
Bixby Developer News/Blogs - https://bixby.developer.samsung.com/

In this episode, Roger talks with Maarten Lens-Fitzgerald. Maarten is a voice evangelist; He works with the Dutch Voice coalition to bring voice to the Dutch people, founded Project Zilver which brings voice to elder adults, actively works on the Open Voice Network, and is an all-around icon in the voice community.

Roger and Maarten discuss

• Maarten's background
• Voice Evangelism and what it is
• Maarten's first experience with voice
• AR and voice
• The Dutch Voice Coalition
• Voice for the people and why it's important
• What is "Google Dutch" and the dangers of voice homogeny
• Openness and voice -why voice should be more like the web
• Project Zilver and bringing voice to older adults
• Why the voice opportunity for older adults is so huge
• Maarten's Book
• Open Voice Network and what Maarten does for it
• Maarten's Podcast and Newsletter
• In-Person Events and Covid
• Voice Lunch
• Maarten's hidden gem
• Maarten's shocking prediction
• Keeping in touch

Links from the Show
Dutch Voice Coalition - www.spraakcoalitie.nl
Project Zilver - www.projectzilver.com
Open Voice Network - openvoicenetwork.org
Open Voice Newsletter - www.getrevue.co/profile/openvoice
Open Voice Events - www.openvoice.nl
Maarten's Book - www.managementboek.nl/boek/9789047012900/voice-maarten-lens-fitzgerald

Keeping in Touch
Maarten's Website - www.lens-fitzgerald.com
Maarten on LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/lensfitzgerald
Maarten on Twitter - twitter.com/Dutchcowboy

Host: Roger Kibbe
(@rogerkibbe) is a senior developer evangelist for Samsung
www.linkedin.com/in/rkibbe

Episodes
All Bixby Developers Chat Episodes available on your favorite podcast player and at:
bixbydev.buzzsprout.com

More about Bixby
Samsung Bixby is a next-generation, AI platform that enables developers to build rich voice and conversational AI experiences for the Bixby Marketplace, and Bixby devices including phones, watches, televisions, smart appliances, and more.
Bixby Developers Homepage - https://bixbydevelopers.com/
Bixby Developers Github - https://github.com/bixbydevelopers
Bixby Developers YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/bixbydevelopers
Bixby Developers Twitter - twitter.com/BixbyDevelopers
Bixby Developers Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/BixbyDevelopers/
Bixby Developer News/Blogs - https://bixby.developer.samsung.com/

In this episode, Roger talks with Dave Kemp. Dave runs business development for Oaktree Products but is most well known for his Future Ear podcast and his thought leadership around hearables and voice

Dave and Roger discuss

• Dave's Background and the founding of Oaktree Products
• How a hearing aid components company and Dave got involved with voice
• Dave's early experiences with voice and the synergy he saw between Oaktree's business and voice
• The massive opportunity for voice and older adults
• Why the industry hasn't figured out this massive opportunity
• How wear all the time devices like hearing aids open up new opportunities to think about where and how we can use voice
• The post-phone era
• Airpods, earpods, etc, and the innovation we are seeing
• Ambient computing
• Hearing augmentation and consumer devices. 
• Podcasting - how and why Dave started Future Ear Radio
• The joys of podcasting and advice for those starting out as podcasters
• The secret networking tool that podcasting is
• Dave's 2nd podcast, This Week in Hearing
• The interesting model behind This Week in Hearing
• Dave's business idea: Golf + Voice
• Dave predictions for the short and long term

Links from the Show
Oaktree Products - www.oaktreeproducts.com
Future Ear Radio Podcast and Blog - futurear.co/future-ear-radio
This Week in Hearing podcast - hearinghealthmatters.org/thisweek

Keeping in Touch
Dave on LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/dave-kemp
Dave on Twitter -@Oaktree_Dave
Dave's Blog - futurear.co
Future Ear Radio on Twitter - @FuturEar_Radio
This Week in Hearing on Twitter - @WeekinHearing

Host: Roger Kibbe
(@rogerkibbe) is a senior developer evangelist for Samsung
www.linkedin.com/in/rkibbe

Episodes
All Bixby Developers Chat Episodes available on your favorite podcast player and at:
bixbydev.buzzsprout.com

More about Bixby
Samsung Bixby is a next-generation, AI platform that enables developers to build rich voice and conversational AI experiences for the Bixby Marketplace, and Bixby devices including phones, watches, televisions, smart appliances, and more.
Bixby Developers Homepage - https://bixbydevelopers.com/
Bixby Developers Github - https://github.com/bixbydevelopers
Bixby Developers YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/bixbydevelopers
Bixby Developers Twitter - twitter.com/BixbyDevelopers
Bixby Developers Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/BixbyDevelopers/
Bixby Developer News/Blogs - https://bixby.developer.samsung.com/

This episode is a little different. Roger was interviewed by the Two Voice Devs podcast a couple of weeks ago. In this podcast within a podcast, Roger's interview by Mark Tucker and Allen Firstenberg, of Two Voice Devs, is embedded within the Bixby Developers Chat podcast

Because of vacations, the regular Bixby Developers Chat format will be back in about a month

Roger and Mark Tucker Discuss

• Roger's tech background and how he got into voice
• Roger's work for Samsung as a Bixby Developer Evangelist
• How Bixby Development is different
• Cross platform voice development and tools like Jovo
• The Open Voice Network, what it is, and what work Roger is doing for it.

If you are not subscribed to the excellent Two Voice Devs podcast, you should subscribe today. It's available on your favorite podcast player/voice assistant or on the web at:
anchor.fm/two-voice-devs

Links from the Show
Two Voice Dev's Podcast - anchor.fm/two-voice-devs
Getting Started with Bixby Development - bixbydevelopers.com

Keeping in Touch
Mark on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tuckerm/
Mark on Twitter: @marktucker
Allen  on LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/allen-s-firstenberg-950130/
Allen on Twitter - @afirstenberg
Roger on LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/rkibbe/
Roger on Twitter - @rogerkibbe

Host: Roger Kibbe
(@rogerkibbe) is a senior developer evangelist for Samsung

Episodes
All Bixby Developers Chat Episodes available on your favorite podcast player and at:
bixbydev.buzzsprout.com

More about Bixby
Samsung Bixby is a next-generation, AI platform that enables developers to build rich voice and conversational AI experiences for the Bixby Marketplace, and Bixby devices including phones, watches, televisions, smart appliances, and more.
Bixby Developers Homepage - https://bixbydevelopers.com/
Bixby Developers Github - https://github.com/bixbydevelopers
Bixby Developers YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/bixbydevelopers
Bixby Developers Twitter - twitter.com/BixbyDevelopers
Bixby Developers Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/BixbyDevelopers/
Bixby Developer News/Blogs - https://bixby.developer.samsung.com/

In this episode, Roger talks with Otto Söderlund. Otto is the CEO and co-founder of Speechly. Speechly is voice enabling mobile apps, the web, and more with its speech tools and framework.

Otto and Roger discuss:

• Our shared early computing experiences
• Otto's career path prior to Speechly
• Early experiences with voice
• The founding of Speechly
• What Speechly does and why it is different
• Speechly's tech which combines ASR and NLU to provide not only performance gains but also better understanding. Why combining these provides an advantage
• The responsibility of technologists and AI to free us from needing to learn the tech and to humanize our technology
• Speechly and eCommerce
• Multimodality
• The opportunities for voice in B2B/Business
• The huge workforce that benefits from tech but also benefits from tech getting out of the way and how voice is an enabler.
• Why the "Angry Birds" of voice is likely a business application
• The opportunities for voice
• Otto's favorite voice experience
• Otto's short terms and long term prediction. Why the voice industry will go away and that's a good thing

Links from the Show
Speechly - www.speechly.com
Speechly demo of using voice for eCommerce search - fashion.speechly.com
Getting started with Speechly - www.speechly.com/get-started

Keeping in Touch
Otto on LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/ottosoderlund
Otto on Twitter -@OttoSoderlund
Speechly on Twitter - @SpeechlyAPI

Host: Roger Kibbe
(@rogerkibbe) is a senior developer evangelist for Samsung

Episodes
All Bixby Developers Chat Episodes available on your favorite podcast player and at:
bixbydev.buzzsprout.com

More about Bixby
Samsung Bixby is a next-generation, AI platform that enables developers to build rich voice and conversational AI experiences for the Bixby Marketplace, and Bixby devices including phones, watches, televisions, smart appliances, and more.
Bixby Developers Homepage - https://bixbydevelopers.com/
Bixby Developers Github - https://github.com/bixbydevelopers
Bixby Developers YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/bixbydevelopers
Bixby Developers Twitter - twitter.com/BixbyDevelopers
Bixby Developers Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/BixbyDevelopers/
Bixby Developer News/Blogs - https://bixby.developer.samsung.com/

In this episode, Roger talks with John Kelvie. John is the founder and CEO of Bespoken, a tool for testing and QA of voice applications.

John is a voice veteran. Prior to founding Bespoken, John was the CTO of XappMedia, an early innovator in audio advertising. 

John and Roger discuss:

• Voice in the "old days" e.g. 2018
• John's work with voice and XappMedia and interactive audio/advertising
• John's founding of Bespoken
• Running a company based in Peru
• Bespoken's mascot, a llama and the history behind it
• What Bespoken does and the value of QA/Testing in voice
• Build pipelines for voice
• Industries with deep commitments to voice.
• The recently concluded Google Accelerator for Voice companies - Bespoken was part of the cohort
• Voice in the car, in the TV and in the Kitchen
• Voice in the call center/IVR and the opportunities there
• Microsoft's acquisition of Nuance and what it means for the voice industry
• Integrating voice into mobile apps
• The rise of independent voice apps, why and what it means for the voice industry
• John's passion for QA and Dev Ops
• Career advice - look at Dev Ops!
• Samsung and voice and the opportunities for TV and Voice
• John's hidden gem voice experience
• Johns short-term and long-term predictions for voice.

Links from the Show
Bespoken - bespoken.io

Keeping in Touch
John on LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/john-kelvie
John on Twitter - @jpkbst
Bespoken on Twitter - @bespokenio

Host: Roger Kibbe
(@rogerkibbe) is a senior developer evangelist for Samsung

Episodes
All Bixby Developers Chat Episodes available on your favorite podcast player and at:
bixbydev.buzzsprout.com

More about Bixby
Samsung Bixby is a next-generation, AI platform that enables developers to build rich voice and conversational AI experiences for the Bixby Marketplace, and Bixby devices including phones, watches, televisions, smart appliances, and more.
Bixby Developers Homepage - https://bixbydevelopers.com/
Bixby Developers Github - https://github.com/bixbydevelopers
Bixby Developers YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/bixbydevelopers
Bixby Developers Twitter - twitter.com/BixbyDevelopers
Bixby Developers Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/BixbyDevelopers/
Bixby Developer News/Blogs - https://bixby.developer.samsung.com/

In this episode, Roger talks with Jon Stine. Jon is the executive director and founder of the Open Voice Network. The Open Voice Network (OVN) is working to advocate for an open voice ecosystem and bring technical standards to voice

Jon has a deep background in retail technology and strategy. Prior to founding OVN, John worked for many years at Intel and Cisco on retail technology strategy.

Jon and Roger discuss:

• Jon's first experience with voice assistants and how he came to realize they can revolutionize how we communicate with technology
• Jon and Roger's mutual background in retail tech/retail strategy
• Tech is only as good as the value it brings
• The opportunities and challenges for voice in retail
• Behavioral science and retail and where voice plays a role
• How to avoid voice being the next shiny penny (think RFID) for retailers
• How we are in a post Turing test world
• How voice enables listening - listening both to the words but also the emotional state of your customers
• Voice and the retail funnel - where we are now, where we can go
• Avoiding the pitfalls of only measuring conversion or overly relying upon conversion as the sole important metric in a single channel/using a single technology
• What OVN is
• Three primary OVN efforts
  • Interoperability
  • Discoverability and a "DNS for voice"
  • Privacy and Security
• Who can get involved with OVN
• The opportunity for voice on non voice-first devices (TV's, Phones, Appliances, Watches etc)
• Jon's hidden gem voice experience
• Jon's predictions for voice in the 1, 5 and 10 year time frames
• Why YOU should get involved with OVN

Links from the Show
Open Voice Network - openvoicenetwork.org
OVN Voice Interoperability Event (June 15-17th) -  openvoicenetwork.org/voice_interoperability_form/

Keeping in Touch
Jon on LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/jonstine/
Jon on Twitter - @joncstine1
OVN on Twitter - openvoicenet

Host: Roger Kibbe
(@rogerkibbe) is a senior developer evangelist for Samsung

Episodes
All Bixby Developers Chat Episodes available on your favorite podcast player and at:
bixbydev.buzzsprout.com

More about Bixby
Samsung Bixby is a next-generation, AI platform that enables developers to build rich voice and conversational AI experiences for the Bixby Marketplace, and Bixby devices including phones, watches, televisions, smart appliances, and more.
Bixby Developers Homepage - https://bixbydevelopers.com/
Bixby Developers Github - https://github.com/bixbydevelopers
Bixby Developers YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/bixbydevelopers
Bixby Developers Twitter - twitter.com/BixbyDevelopers
Bixby Developers Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/BixbyDevelopers/
Bixby Developer News/Blogs - https://bixby.developer.samsung.com/

In this episode, Roger talks with sonic marketing expert and composer, Jeanna Isham

Jeanna is an accomplished sonic marketer. She is the founder of DreamR Productions, teaches sonic marketing at soundinmarketing.com, and is the host of the Sound in Marketing podcast.

Jeanna and Roger discuss:

• What is sonic marketing and what companies are doing with it
• Examples of effective sonic marketing
• A few examples where sonic marketing is needed
• Sonic marketing and voice apps
• How sound makes thing work . . .
• Advice for those building voice apps
• Sensorial marketing
• Jeanna's Sound in Marketing Podcast
• Podcasting and keys to success
• Diversity and Inclusion
• Societal challenges and opportunities in Diversity and Inclusion
• Samsung's Voice Strategy
• Jeanna's Hidden Gem's
• 2021 and 5-10 year predictions

Links from the Show
Dreamr Productions - www.dreamrproductions.com
Sound in Marketing - soundinmarketing.com
Sound in Marketing Podcast - www.dreamrproductions.com/sound-in-marketing
Stand for Sonic Diversity - www.standforsonicdiversity.com
Sound on Purpose Events - www.eventbrite.com/o/jeanna-isham-31334225877
August Rush Movie - www.imdb.com/title/tt0426931
20,000 Hertz Podcast - www.20k.org

Keeping in Touch
Jeanna on LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/jeannaisham
Jeanna on Twitter - @Jeanna_Isham

Host: Roger Kibbe
(@rogerkibbe) is a senior developer evangelist for Samsung

Episodes
All Bixby Developers Chat Episodes available on your favorite podcast player and at:
bixbydev.buzzsprout.com

More about Bixby
Samsung Bixby is a next-generation, AI platform that enables developers to build rich voice and conversational AI experiences for the Bixby Marketplace, and Bixby devices including phones, watches, televisions, smart appliances, and more.
Bixby Developers Homepage - https://bixbydevelopers.com/
Bixby Developers Github - https://github.com/bixbydevelopers
Bixby Developers YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/bixbydevelopers
Bixby Developers Twitter - twitter.com/BixbyDevelopers
Bixby Developers Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/BixbyDevelopers/
Bixby Developer News/Blogs - https://bixby.developer.samsung.com/

In this episode, Roger interviews Voice Lunch founders Karol Stryja and Michal Stanislawek!

This is an experimental episode that was recorded live on the hot social voice startup, Clubhouse. I would love any feedback on this experiment - what worked, what didn't. Let me know via tweet/DM etc - @rogerkibbe 
 
Karol and Michal discuss:

• Founding VoiceLunch
• Building a Community and growing voice lunch
• Podcasting
• Business in Poland
• Technology Innovation in Poland
• The Future of Voice

Later in the show, I opened it up to anyone in the Clubhouse room and the listeners became the interviewers!

Links from the Show
Voice Lunch Registration - register.voicelunch.com
Voice Lunch on Twitter - twitter.com/voicelunch
Voice Lunch on LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/company/voicelunch

Karol's Companies
VoiceFest -  voicefest.pl
The  Podcast Makers - thepodcastmakers.com
Zawodowcy Podcast -  zawodowcy.fm

Michal's Companies
Hearme.ai - hearme.ai
Utter One - utter.one
Media Atmos - www.mediaatmos.com

Keeping in Touch
Karol on LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/karolstryja
Karol on Twitter - twitter.com/karol_stryja
Michal on LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/xmstan
Michal on Twitter - twitter.com/xmstan

Host: Roger Kibbe
(@rogerkibbe) is a senior developer evangelist for Viv Labs/Samsung

Episodes
All Bixby Developers Chat Episodes available on your favorite podcast player and at:
bixbydev.buzzsprout.com

More about Bixby
Samsung Bixby is a next-generation, AI platform that enables developers to build rich voice and conversational AI experiences for the Bixby Marketplace, and Bixby devices including phones, watches, televisions, smart appliances, and more.
Bixby Developers Homepage - https://bixbydevelopers.com/
Bixby Developers Github - https://github.com/bixbydevelopers
Bixby Developers YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/bixbydevelopers
Bixby Developers Twitter - twitter.com/BixbyDevelopers
Bixby Developers Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/BixbyDevelopers/
Bixby Developer News/Blogs - https://bixby.developer.samsung.com/

In this episode, Roger talks with voice development expert and thought leader Allen Firstenberg.

Allen is a developer and project manager for Objective Consulting and is a Google Developer Expert (GDE) for many Google products. Allen slso co-hosts with Mark Tucker, the must listen to Two Voice Devs podcast.

Allen and Roger discuss:

• What Objective Consulting does
• Why companies should be building a voice presence now and how a voice presence can be a competitive advantage
• What is a Google Developer Expert and how one becomes a GDE? And how important developer relations and "super developers" like GDE's are to technology companies
• Allen's history of working with voice
• The promise, the success, and the failure of Google Glass and lessons learned that are relevant today
• Vodo Drive: Allen's creation which allows reading and writing to spreadsheets via voice and the promise it holds
• Voice in business
• True personalization in voice, putting the capital "A" in assistant
• The Two Voice Devs podcast
• Samsung's vision for voice and the promise it holds
• Truly contextually sensitive voice assistants and the future
• Predictions for voice in the near term and longer term
• Allen's favorite voice experiences
• . . . and much more

Links from the Show
Objective Consulting - spiders.com
Vodo Drive - vodo-drive.com
Two Voice Devs Podcast - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWYqZpPY2U_wn2P72FUpBA and
https://anchor.fm/two-voice-devs

Keeping in Touch
Allen  on LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/allen-s-firstenberg-950130/
Allen on Twitter - twitter.com/afirstenberg

Host: Roger Kibbe
(@rogerkibbe) is a senior developer evangelist for Viv Labs/Samsung

Episodes
All Bixby Developers Chat Episodes available on your favorite podcast player and at:
bixbydev.buzzsprout.com

More about Bixby
Samsung Bixby is a next-generation, AI platform that enables developers to build rich voice and conversational AI experiences for the Bixby Marketplace, and Bixby devices including phones, watches, televisions, smart appliances, and more.
Bixby Developers Homepage - https://bixbydevelopers.com/
Bixby Developers Github - https://github.com/bixbydevelopers
Bixby Developers YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/bixbydevelopers
Bixby Developers Twitter - twitter.com/BixbyDevelopers
Bixby Developers Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/BixbyDevelopers/
Bixby Developer News/Blogs - https://bixby.developer.samsung.com/

In this episode, Roger talks with voice development guru, Pete Haas.

Pete has been working in voice for 16 years. He is an application development manager at Verascape (call center IVR), runs Conversation Curve his voice design and development agency, and has built many engaging voice experiences.

Pete and Roger discuss many things including:

• Pete's 16 year career in voice and what he has seen change
• The evolution of IVR systems from menus to natural language
• Conversation Curve and what Pete has built
• Diversity and Equality in Voice
• Music and Voice and the opportunities
• Jovo - unlocking cross-platform development and code reuse
• Monetization and Voice
• Where the Voice Industry Is and what its challenges are
• Voice in the kitchen and on appliances
• The future of voice

Links from the Show
Verascape - www.verascape.com
Conversation Curve - conversationcurve.com

Keeping in Touch
Pete  on LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/petehaas1/
Pete on Twitter - @PeteHaas

Host: Roger Kibbe
(@rogerkibbe) is a senior developer evangelist for Viv Labs/Samsung

Episodes
All Bixby Developers Chat Episodes available on your favorite podcast player and at:
bixbydev.buzzsprout.com

More about Bixby
Samsung Bixby is a next-generation, AI platform that enables developers to build rich voice and conversational AI experiences for the Bixby Marketplace, and Bixby devices including phones, watches, televisions, smart appliances, and more.
Bixby Developers Homepage - https://bixbydevelopers.com/
Bixby Developers Github - https://github.com/bixbydevelopers
Bixby Developers YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/bixbydevelopers
Bixby Developers Twitter - twitter.com/BixbyDevelopers
Bixby Developers Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/BixbyDevelopers/
Bixby Developer News/Blogs - https://bixby.developer.samsung.com/

In this episode, Roger talks with the conversational designer, educator, and voice leader Shyamala Prayaga.

Shyamala is a product owner for Ford's Autonomous Digital Assistant, the founder of the Digital Assistant Academy, and the host of The Future is Spoken Podcast.

Shyamala and Roger discuss a variety of topics including

• How Shyamala got into voice
• Her work at Ford, the Digital Assistant Academy, and as a podcast host
• Her advice for those thinking of getting into voice and podcasting
• Her upcoming book Emotionally Engaged Digital Assistant
• The state of conversational design - where it is, where it needs to go
• Diversity in Voice
• Gender and Voice
• Inclusiveness and Voice
• Her 2021 predictions for Voice
• Her 5-10 year predictions for Voice

Links From the Show
Digital Assistant Academy - www.digitalassistant.academy
The Future is Spoken Podcast - www.thefutureisspoken.com
Shyamala's Books - www.shyamalaprayaga.com/publications

Keeping in Touch
Shyamala Prayaga's Website - www.shyamalaprayaga.com
Shyamala on LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/shyamalaprayaga
Shyamala on Twitter - twitter.com/sprayaga

Host: Roger Kibbe
(@rogerkibbe) is a senior developer evangelist for Viv Labs/Samsung

Episodes
All Bixby Developers Chat Episodes available on your favorite podcast player and at:
bixbydev.buzzsprout.com

More about Bixby
Samsung Bixby is a next-generation, AI platform that enables developers to build rich voice and conversational AI experiences for the Bixby Marketplace, and Bixby devices including phones, watches, televisions, smart appliances, and more.
Bixby Developers Homepage - https://bixbydevelopers.com/
Bixby Developers Github - https://github.com/bixbydevelopers
Bixby Developers YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/bixbydevelopers
Bixby Developers Twitter - twitter.com/BixbyDevelopers
Bixby Developers Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/BixbyDevelopers/
Bixby Developer News/Blogs - https://bixby.developer.samsung.com/

For this special end of year podcast, I did something special. I asked everyone whose been a guest on the podcast over the past year to contribute to this end of the year, special edition of the podcast

32 amazing voice gurus contributed to this end of the year podcast.

I asked each voice guru to 

• Introduce themselves
• Hidden Gem Question: What is a voice experience, e.g., a skill, an action, a capsule, a podcast, or a flash briefing, that you would like more people to discover and use and what do you like about it 
• Prediction Question: What do you predict or want to see happen in the voice industry in 2021?

This is part two of the podcast with 16 guests. Part 1 was released last week - https://bixbydev.buzzsprout.com/793529/6958664-end-of-year-special-part-1-episode-26

Guests are:
Jenny Mero @jennymero
Arte Merritt @artemerritt
Ruben Aegerter @ruben_aeg
Ryan Lipkin @SideChefApp
Mark Tucker @marktucker
Daniel Hill @danielhillmedia
Dyung Ngo @DyungNgo
Jennie Stenhouse @illinx
Allen Firstenberg @afirstenberg
Keri Roberts @kerinroberts
Braden Ream @ReamBraden
Tim Kahle @kahle
Armel Beaudry @armelbeaudry
Jonathan Pan @JohnWithoutTheH
Einat Laudon @EinatLaudon
Maarten Lens-Fitzgerald @Dutchcowboy

Host: Roger Kibbe
(@rogerkibbe) is a senior developer evangelist for Viv Labs/Samsung

Episodes
All Bixby Developers Chat Episodes available on your favorite podcast player and at:
bixbydev.buzzsprout.com

More about Bixby
Samsung Bixby is a next-generation, AI platform that enables developers to build rich voice and conversational AI experiences for the Bixby Marketplace, and Bixby devices including phones, watches, televisions, smart appliances, and more.
Bixby Developers Homepage - https://bixbydevelopers.com/
Bixby Developers Github - https://github.com/bixbydevelopers
Bixby Developers YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/bixbydevelopers
Bixby Developers Twitter - twitter.com/BixbyDevelopers
Bixby Developers Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/BixbyDevelopers/
Bixby Developer News/Blogs - https://bixby.developer.samsung.com/

For this special end of year podcast, I did something special. I asked everyone whose been a guest on the podcast over the past year to contribute to this end of year, special edition of the podcast

32 amazing voice gurus contributed to this end of the year podcast.

I asked each voice guru to 

• Introduce themselves
• Hidden Gem Question: What is a voice experience, e.g., a skill, an action, a capsule, a podcast, or a flash briefing, that you would like more people to discover and use and what do you like about it 
• Prediction Question: What do you predict or want to see happen in the voice industry in 2021?

This is part one of the podcast with the first 16 guests. Part 2 will be released next week.

Guests are:
Ryan Jordan @LincolnJCole
Christian Mahnke @EarReality
Carl Robinson @VoiceTechCarl
Sarah Andrew Wilson @SarahAndrewWils
Jon Stine @joncstine1
Scot Westwater @scotwestwater
John Kelvie @jpkbst
Daniel Mittendorf @DanMittendorf
Julie Daniel Davis @juliedavisEDU
Ian Utile @IanUtile
Adam Cheyer @acheyer
Steven Arkonovich @SArkonovich
John Alioto @jpalioto
Jan König @einkoenig
Ilarna Nche @Ilarna_preach
Teri Fisher @DrTeriFisher

Host: Roger Kibbe
(@rogerkibbe) is a senior developer evangelist for Viv Labs/Samsung

Episodes
All Bixby Developers Chat Episodes available on your favorite podcast player and at:
bixbydev.buzzsprout.com

More about Bixby
Samsung Bixby is a next-generation, AI platform that enables developers to build rich voice and conversational AI experiences for the Bixby Marketplace, and Bixby devices including phones, watches, televisions, smart appliances, and more.
Bixby Developers Homepage - https://bixbydevelopers.com/
Bixby Developers Github - https://github.com/bixbydevelopers
Bixby Developers YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/bixbydevelopers
Bixby Developers Twitter - twitter.com/BixbyDevelopers
Bixby Developers Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/BixbyDevelopers/
Bixby Developer News/Blogs - https://bixby.developer.samsung.com/

In this episode, Roger talks with entrepreneur, futurist, and voice enthusiast, Ian Utile.

Ian is the founder and CEO of attn.live, a platform to enable content creators to monetize and distribute their content across multiple channels.

Ian and Roger have a lively discussion of how they got started in technology. They discuss what childhood and teenage interests lead them to careers in technology.

Ian and Roger talk about various technologies they have used and gotten excited about over the years. What were the winners, what were the laggards, and where patience was necessary to and still is, to see the laggards become winners.

Ian discusses entrepreneurship. He talks about both his successes and failures and what he has learned as a serial entrepreneur.

Ian talks about how he got started in voice and how this lead him to founding attn.live. Ian talks about what attn.live is, the vision behind it, what has been built and what the future holds.

Ian and Roger talk about where voice is. Ian equates voice's current state to the terrible two's of childhood. Both discuss how voice can and must grow up.

Ian closes with a passionate vision of voice technology empowering the world and allowing even the most impoverished people in the world to use technology to both access and create content. He discusses how the AI behind voice can lead to inclusiveness for everyone.

Links from the Show
attn.live - https://www.attn.live/

Keeping in Touch
Ian on Twitter - @IanUtile
Ian on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianutile/
attn.live on Twitter - @attnlive
attn.live on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/attnlive/

Guest: Ian Utile
Future, Technologist and Entrepreneur Ian Utile talks Voice, Entrepreneurship, and empowering the world

Host: Roger Kibbe
(@rogerkibbe) is a senior developer evangelist for Viv Labs/Samsung

Episodes
All Bixby Developers Chat Episodes available on your favorite podcast player and at:
bixbydev.buzzsprout.com

More about Bixby
Samsung Bixby is a next-generation, AI platform that enables developers to build rich voice and conversational AI experiences for the Bixby Marketplace, and Bixby devices including phones, watches, televisions, smart appliances, and more.
Bixby Developers Homepage - https://bixbydevelopers.com/
Bixby Developers Github - https://github.com/bixbydevelopers
Bixby Developers YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/bixbydevelopers
Bixby Developers Twitter - twitter.com/BixbyDevelopers
Bixby Developers Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/BixbyDevelopers/
Bixby Developer News/Blogs - https://bixby.developer.samsung.com/