Stories covered:LinkedIn allows newsletters in the UK: sign up to conversational AI and NLP hereKane closes SwissCognitive Cognitive Virtual event with 'AI strategy in 5 days' talkWake word detection with SoundHound's Darin ClarkMicrosoft release contact centre with AI at its coreThe future of NLU with Chandra KhatriMaking audio more discoverable with Gal KleinSymbl.ai raises $17m. Join CEO, Surbhi Rathore on VUX World Live on 25th NovemberInworld AI raises $7mNVIDIA's Audio2FaceCoinbase acquires AgaraSonos voice assistant code leaked Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chandra Khatri is the Head of AI at emerging startup, Got It AI, and joins us to share the future of NLU systems and how transformer-based models (explained in detail for the layperson) are heralding a new line of capabilities and making a new kind of customer experience possible. Chandra used to work on the Alexa team and was the founding brain behind the Alexa Prize which, to date, has been responsible for some of the most innovative work on multi-turn conversational AI development. Many of the outputs of the Alexa Prize have made it into the core Alexa product, such as Alexa Conversations. Chandra then worked as one of the founding members of the Uber conversational AI team before heading up the AI division at Got It AI.LinksVisit Got It AIPresented by DeepgramDeepgram is a Speech Company whose goal is to have every voice heard and understood. We have revolutionized speech-to-text (STT) with an End-to-End Deep Learning platform. This AI architectural advantage means you don’t have to compromise on speed, accuracy, scalability, or cost to build the next big idea in voice. Our easy-to-use SDKs and APIs allow developers to quickly test and embed our STT solution into their voice products. For more information, visit: https://deepgram.com/vuxworld Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Audio is chronically difficult to find. Invisible and not indexed in the usual places people search for information, such as online and in emerging contexts such as voice assistants. Yet, there's so much audio being produced and so much rich and dense information contained within it.Think about this podcast. In this conversation with Audioburst CEO, Gal Klein, we discuss a whole manner of different challenges when it comes to discovering audio content, both bite-sized summaries and long form information. Yet, you'll need to listen to the whole thing in order to benefit from it. And how did you find it? In a podcast player probably.But why can't you just ask Google what the main challenge with audio discoverability is, then dip straight into the specific part of this podcast where Gal explains it?The answer? Audio is notoriously difficult to understand and summarise. Yet, that is what Audioburst does.In this conversation, we discuss some of the core challenges with audio discoverability, the value of both short and long form audio and how Audioburst helps creators and businesses make their audio more discoverable.Linkswww.audioburst.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Instreamatic allows advertisers to create and distribute interactive audio ads that you can talk to. CEO, Stas Tushinskiy, joins us to share insights into the emerging world of interactive advertising and his lessons learned in building the innovative interactive audio platform.Linksinstreamatic.comThe State of Voice AdvertisingPresented by DeepgramDeepgram is a Speech Company whose goal is to have every voice heard and understood. We have revolutionized speech-to-text (STT) with an End-to-End Deep Learning platform. This AI architectural advantage means you don’t have to compromise on speed, accuracy, scalability, or cost to build the next big idea in voice. Our easy-to-use SDKs and APIs allow developers to quickly test and embed our STT solution into their voice products. For more information, visit:Deepgram websiteDeepgram on LinkedInDeepgram on Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Clinc co-Founder, Author, Founder and CEO ofZeroShotBot, serial entrepreneur and all roundconversational AI veteran, Prof. Jason Mars, joins usto share his latest work in advanced conversational AIsystems and where it’s all heading.Linkshttps://www.zeroshotbot.com https://www.breakbots.com Presented by DeepgramDeepgram is a Speech Company whose goal is to have every voice heard and understood. We have revolutionized speech-to-text (STT) with an End-to-End Deep Learning platform. This AI architectural advantage means you don’t have to compromise on speed, accuracy, scalability, or cost to build the next big idea in voice. Our easy-to-use SDKs and APIs allow developers to quickly test and embed our STT solution into their voice products. For more information, visit:Deepgram websiteDeepgram on LinkedInDeepgram on Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Albert Jordan, Vice President and General Manager of Automotive Applications at HARMAN International. and Joe Iacobelli, Director, Sales Engineering, Products and Strategy, Cerence, join us on VUX World to share more about the Harman and Cerence partnership that brings voice AI to third-party application providers and OEMs providing in-car services through the Harman infotainment systems and the Harman Ignite Store.Presented by DeepgramDeepgram is a Speech Company whose goal is to have every voice heard and understood. We have revolutionized speech-to-text (STT) with an End-to-End Deep Learning platform. This AI architectural advantage means you don’t have to compromise on speed, accuracy, scalability, or cost to build the next big idea in voice. Our easy-to-use SDKs and APIs allow developers to quickly test and embed our STT solution into their voice products. For more information, visit:Deepgram websiteDeepgram on LinkedInDeepgram on Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Authors of Conversations with Things, Rebecca Evanhoe and Diana Deibel, join us to share conversation design best practice and lessons learned from over a decade of designing conversations with things.LinksBuy Conversations with ThingsConnect with Rebecca Evanhoe on LinkedInConnect with Diana Deibel on LinkedInPresented by DeepgramDeepgram is a Speech Company whose goal is to have every voice heard and understood. We have revolutionized speech-to-text (STT) with an End-to-End Deep Learning platform. This AI architectural advantage means you don’t have to compromise on speed, accuracy, scalability, or cost to build the next big idea in voice. Our easy-to-use SDKs and APIs allow developers to quickly test and embed our STT solution into their voice products. For more information, visit:Deepgram websiteDeepgram on LinkedInDeepgram on Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

 The future of conversation designI rocked the boat a little over the last few weeks, making some statements about the future of conversation design. How technology will improve and intent-less NLU and other technology will change the role of a conversation designer. How the way we think about conversations isn’t always conducive to producing great customer experiences.One company that is pushing the boundaries of conversation design is OpenDialog. It’s unique approach of an intent-last mindset is nothing like I’ve seen before.Ronald Ashri has been instrumental in leading the OpenDialog team and approach. He joins us this week to share more on the OpenDialog conversation design philosophy, the tooling and his thoughts on the future of conversation design.LinksVisit OpenDialog.aiConnect with Ronald Ashri on LinkedInPresented by DeepgramDeepgram is a Speech Company whose goal is to have every voice heard and understood. We have revolutionized speech-to-text (STT) with an End-to-End Deep Learning platform. This AI architectural advantage means you don’t have to compromise on speed, accuracy, scalability, or cost to build the next big idea in voice. Our easy-to-use SDKs and APIs allow developers to quickly test and embed our STT solution into their voice products. For more information, visit:Deepgram websiteDeepgram on LinkedInDeepgram on Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When Google comes across a voice AI automation problem that it can't solve, and needs to bring in another company to help solve it, you can assume that the company they use know a thing or two about voice AI. You can also assume that company has some compelling technology at its disposal. Meet Sovran AI CRO, Clive Elleforde. Clive has decades of experience in business, technology and startup growth and is leading the growth charge at UK-based voice AI tech company, Sovran AI.Sovran AI has been reaching over 90% automation rates when automating conversations in contact centres with the likes of Sky. Compared to the average level of 11% automation reported by McKinsey, that's pretty impressive.Clive joins us to share more about what Sovran AI does, how it approaches voice AI automation, and some of the secret sauce that enables Sovran AI to achieve such high levels of accuracy, and so quickly (some Sovran AI projects have gone live in weeks).Presented by DeepgramDeepgram is a Speech Company whose goal is to have every voice heard and understood. We have revolutionized speech-to-text (STT) with an End-to-End Deep Learning platform. This AI architectural advantage means you don’t have to compromise on speed, accuracy, scalability, or cost to build the next big idea in voice. Our easy-to-use SDKs and APIs allow developers to quickly test and embed our STT solution into their voice products. For more information, visit:Deepgram websiteDeepgram on LinkedInDeepgram on TwitterLinksVisit Sovran AIEmail Clive Elleford directly Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The CEO of rising conversational AI platform provider, Hyro, joins us to share insights on the unique approach taken to create its NLU technology and the kind of results its seeing in market.Israel Krush shares the ins and outs of Hyro's philosophy, its intentness NLU approach and the importance of knowledge management.We get into why, when using Hyro, there's less of a need for designing conversational flows and how the technology is able to make decisions about what questions to ask next based on the data. This is because of a combination of a linguistic approach to NLU creation and through pairing that with a bespoke knowledge graph with documents content, entities and the relationship between them.We discuss some of the challenges organisations have when implementing conversational AI, how Hyro is helping clients overcome them and how a seemingly straightforward deployment is managed and maintained. This episode of VUX World is presented by DeepgramDeepgram is a Speech Company whose goal is to have every voice heard and understood. We have revolutionized speech-to-text (STT) with an End-to-End Deep Learning platform. This AI architectural advantage means you don’t have to compromise on speed, accuracy, scalability, or cost to build the next big idea in voice. Our easy-to-use SDKs and APIs allow developers to quickly test and embed our STT solution into their voice products. For more information, visit https://deepgram.com/vuxworld.Links:https://hyro.ai Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.