From Labyrinth to Lifeline: How Mobile Apps Are Revolutionizing Government Services
28 Aug 2024
Apps are fundamentally changing the way people access services like license renewals and tax filing, and speech technologies are playing a central role.
Post-Retirement, Speech Tech Projects Await
25 Jun 2024
What will I do if I stop working? What won't I do
Pitfalls Facing Conversational Assistants: Hallucinations and Deepfakes
09 May 2024
Bad data (and actors) can have consequences.
Generative AI Is the Swiss Army Knife for Today’s Conversational Assistants
19 Mar 2024
Helpful assistants can become even more so thanks to genAI.
Large Language Models Will Transform Conversational Assistants
14 Feb 2024
Thanks to generative AI, conversational assistants will become everyday helpers.
Conversational Assistants and Privacy
21 Sep 2023
Guiding principles (and potential issues) for our AI-powered future.
Conversational Assistants’ Next Step: Communities
07 Jun 2023
As the apps become more ubiquitous, they'll need to interact.
It’s Time to Cross Speech Tech’s Annoying Valley
12 Apr 2023
Face it: IVR systems are almost all annoying.
When Conversational Assistants Meet: Delegating, Mediating, and Channeling
28 Feb 2023
How can voice assistants be made to cooperate with each other?
Attack of the Smart Bots
06 Dec 2022
AI-powered bots paired with TTS could be used for nefarious purposes.
Reality Isn’t Sci-Fi—It’s More Startling
19 Oct 2022
Speech tech, like all tech, keeps getting more mind-blowing.
Conversational Agents Move Toward Interoperability
25 Jul 2022
On the path from garden walls to interoperable open agents.
Move over GUI, Hello SVUI
28 Jun 2022
Your Voice Tells All
11 Mar 2022
Speech app developers are finding ways to interpret your feelings and conditions.
An Open Letter to Voice Agent Platform Developers
23 Nov 2021
You're at the vanguard of a burgeoning movement.
3 Trends That Will Shape IVA Development
23 Jun 2021
Voice assistants are poised to become more specialized and less platform-specific
Designing a Web Site? Learn from the Speech Business—Please!
25 Feb 2021
Contact centers, whether with human or automated attendants, have a lot to teach corporate websites about usability.
Businesses’ Voice Assistants Are Coming to a Smart Speaker Near You
01 Nov 2020
Soon it will be de rigueur for every business to have its own IVA.
How Can Speech Technology Help?
01 Aug 2020
Looking at all the ways speech recognition can step up amid the pandemic
As Voice Assistants Multiply, When Will We Get a Registry?
01 May 2020
VARs can help tame the Wild West of voice assistants