Posts Tagged ‘Google Actions’
Project Voice Takeaways: Why Our CTO Thinks Samsung Bixby Could Be The Next Big Voice Platform
LISTEN READ I’ve known our CTO Joe Wallace since 2011. He’s one of the most thoughtful people I’ve ever worked with. NOT “touchy feely” thoughtful. Thoughtful about his work. Period. He – and I mean this in a complimentary way – is NOT easily impressed. And as he admits in this wonderfully done podcast interview…
Read MoreHow To Get Found On Alexa: Exclusive Interview With Amazon Alexa Evangelist Jeff Blankenburg
WATCH LISTEN READ Getting found on Alexa (let’s call it “SAO” – Search Alexa Optimization) – At Project Voice, I asked Amazon Alexa’s Jeff Blankenburg how businesses can get found on Alexa. While waking Alexa with a phrase like “Alexa, how do I make a Jack-o-lantern” I’ve noticed more frequently over the last 6 months…
Read MoreHow To Teach AI And Proper Voice Application Design (with David Code of LinkedIn)
WATCH LISTEN READ David Code has an interesting story. He got a job at LinkedIn teaching AI to people with a non-STEM background. He got fed up trying to learn AI from AI experts who couldn’t teach well, and decided to write a 140-page textbook and post it to Reddit. Well, LinkedIn found him and…
Read MoreWould You Marry Amazon Alexa? Interview with Project Voice Founder Bradley Metrock
WATCH LISTEN READ Those of us building Voice Apps for Alexa and Google Assistant have naturally become evangelists and power users of the voice assistants and smart speakers. Case in point, I don’t know anybody who knows more about How To Use Alexa than creator of Project Voice and CEO of Score Publishing, Bradley Metrock.…
Read MoreMust Read: What Will Happen In Voice In 2020
READ 2020 is going to be a HUGE year for Voice. Specifically, 2020 is going to be the year that most businesses start to get entry-level Voice Apps, just like they started getting websites in the early 2000s. SMBs Will Get A Voice What does this mean? It means that your local HVAC repair business,…
Read MoreWhat Are The Best Tools Available To Make Your Own Voice Apps? (Alexa Skills and Google Actions)
WATCH LISTEN READ The same way that our lives all improved as consumers and eventually as marketers and business owners in 2008-2010 with the advent of the iPhone and other smartphones, 2020 will be the year and certainly mark the beginning of the decade in which all of our lives improved due to Voice technology,…
Read MoreWhat Is The Difference Between An Alexa Skill And A Siri Shortcut? Data Driven Daily Tip 352
WATCH LISTEN READ I was talking recently with a good friend of mine, QuHarrison Terry, who is the co-founder of Inevitable/Human and the head of growth marketing at Mark Cuban Companies. He was asking me about why I thought the Alexa Skills Store would be the next $46 billion App Store. My answer, that Amazon…
Read MoreHow to Reserve Your Voice Domain Name on Google – Google Action Whitelabeling – Data Driven Daily Tip 351
WATCH LISTEN READ One question I’ve been asked very often since the first ever Nashville Voice Conference on July 31, 2019 is – how do I reserve my voice app’s opening phrase on Google? The technical way to ask this would be “how do I create an opening invocation on Google Actions?” But that’s not…
Read MoreHow To Build A How To Video Google Action For Your Business: Data Driven Daily Tip 340
WATCH LISTEN READ As the world of voice apps continuously changes, one of the latest ways you’ll want to consider garnering awareness for your business is to build what’s called a “How To Video Action” on Google Assistant. This is a voice-activated way that users can bring up VIDEO content on their devices, like Google…
Read MoreHow To Find Google Actions On Google Assistant: Data Driven Daily Tip 325
WATCH LISTEN READ I’ve built several Google Actions and Alexa Skills recently, and while Alexa seems to be pretty straightforward in terms of finding and adding Skills to your devices via the Alexa app / Skill store, the Google Home situation with Google Assistant isn’t as straightforward. To be honest, there still appears to be…
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