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The Voicebot PodcastConversational AI Innovators at Project Voice 2023 with Lilypad, Dexer, ConverseNow, Speechly, CDI, and CalenProject Voice gathered again in Chattanooga, Tennessee in April 2023. I had the opportunity to interview several innovative companies while on site. 2:16 - LilyPad AI, Genady Knizhnik - Conversational AI for English language learning 11:09 - Conversation Design Institute, Hans Van Dam - Conversation design evolution 23:11 - Speechly, Collin Borns - Speech recognition tools to combat voice chat toxicity 31:00 - ConverseNow, Ben Brown - Conversational AI for restaurants 42:51 - Calen, Irakli Beselidze - Enterprise contact center automation 53:42 - Dexer, Bruce Rasa - Voice AI for hands-free inspection and recording 2023-07-271h 01The Voicebot PodcastVoice Summit 2022 Interviews with Veritone, Voicify, Speechly, Voice Lunch, Vixen Labs, and ModevVoice summit is the largest annual gathering of conversational AI professionals. Voicebot took the opportunity to interview several industry leaders to get their perspectives on the conversational AI market today and where it is headed. Guests include: - Michal Stanislawek, Utter One / VoiceLunch (6:25) - Rupal Patel, Veritone (12:57) - Jeff McMahon, Voicify (18:46) - Collin Borns, Speechly (25:44) - Susan Westwater, Vixen Labs (33:08) - Pete Erickson, Modev / Voice Summit (36:58) Topics range from the use cases driving the most conversational AI demand today and best practices for voice strategy...2022-10-1941 min
KræsSådan taler du med dine børn om traumatiske hændelserHvordan taler man med sine børn om en hændelse som skudepisoden i Field's? Det svarer Marianne Rasmussen, afdelingschef for Børnetelefonen hos Børns Vilkår, på. Konservative kristne i USA har i årevis ført en ideologisk kamp for at afskaffe retten til abort - det kulminerede d. 24. Juni, da USA's højesteret fjernede retten til abort i USA. I Rebild Bakker holder nordjyderne fortsat fast i deres årlige fejring af den amerikanske uafhængighed og 4th of July. Vi spørger, om man kan fejre USA nu. Medvirkende: Generalsekretær i Rebildselskabet, Helene Christensen. Skak har tusindvis af...2022-07-0454 min
Voice in Canada PodcastThe Voicefluencer Show with Collin Borns of SpeechlyIn this episode, Collin Borns, Head of Business Development for Speechly Shares the Impact of Voice. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.2021-08-2523 min
Creative and TechUsing Voice Tech as a Feature to Enhance the Retail ExperienceUsing Voice Tech as a Feature to Enhance the Retail Experience with Collin Borns, Business Development, SpeechlyListen in as he talks about trends that are happening in the retail space and how to use voice as a feature to ehance the customer experience and shares use cases the retail and ecommerce space can create. Learn more at readspeaker.ai --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/readspeakerai/message2021-07-1930 min
Future Ear Radio070 - Collin Borns - Speechly: Enabling Voice User Interfaces EverywhereGuest: Collin Borns, Head of Business Development (US) at Speechly
Topic: Speechly: Enabling Voice User Interfaces Everywhere
This week on the podcast, Dave is joined by his old friend Collin Borns to discuss his new venture as Head of Business Development at Speechly. The two chat about the unique capabilities of Speechly, honing in on its ability to process natural language and speech recognition simultaneously, which can dramatically enhance mobile and web experiences, such as eCommerce shopping. The two talk about the current state of voice tech and how mass-enabling sophisticated voice user interfaces as...2021-05-0750 min
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Voicing StartupsWhispr with Hugh - Ep. 32Overview
This week on the Voicing Startups podcast I am talking with Hugh, Co-Founder and CEO of Whispr. Whispr is a platform that is designed to deliver better information to workers and real-time data to managers so you can constantly improve frontline operations through the use of a voice-first experience.
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To start off the interview, Hugh and I talk about his background and the origin story for Whispr. To better understand the product we then jump into a walkthrough of the user experience for both management and the front line workers. We...2020-05-1833 minVoicing StartupsRoby with Jay - Ep. 31Overview
This week on the Voicing Startups podcast I am talking with Jay, Founder and CEO of Roby. Roby is not just another ticketing software. Roby is able to automate your repetitive tasks such as employees’ questions, meeting scheduling, building services and facility requests through conversational AI. This allows you to focus on what really matters - creating an amazing working environment!
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To start off the interview, Jay talks about his background and how he came up with the idea for Roby. We then spend a little time around the customer and th...2020-05-1124 minVoicing StartupsEspressive with Pat - Ep. 30Overview
This week on the Voicing Startups podcast I am talking with Pat, Founder and CEO of Espressive. Espressive redefines how employees get help by delivering exceptional employee experiences. This is accomplished through Barista, Espressive’s Virtual Support Agent (VSA), which brings the ease of consumer virtual assistants, like Alexa or Google Home, into the workplace. Recently, Espressive announced a $30M Series B investment round led by Insight Partners.
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To start out the interview, we look at Pat’s background and ultimately how he came up with the idea for Espressive and the...2020-05-0434 minVoicing StartupsHereAfter with James - Ep. 29Overview
This week on the Voicing Startups podcast I am talking with James, Co-Founder of HereAfter. HereAfter has pioneered a new way to save and share your loved ones most important stories and memories. Once stories are collected in an interview, the responses are available via an interactive voice experience through the use of the HereAfter AI platform.
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To start out the interview, we talk about James' background. Before starting HereAfter, he wrote the popular book around voice computing called Talk To Me. We then dig into what exactly HereAfter is and...2020-04-2726 minVoicing StartupsSoundskrit with Sahil - Ep. 28Overview
This week on the Voicing Startups podcast I am talking with Sahil, Co-Founder & Product Lead at Soundskrit. Soundskrit is developing bio inspired directional MEMS microphones with a goal of improving audio capture in consumer devices. With a single microphone, they can separate sounds coming from multiple directions without compromising size or quality. Soundskrit is positioned to greatly improve speech recognition and sound localization, enabling a new suite of features for consumer electronics.
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We start off the interview with getting an idea of Sahil’s background and the general concept of So...2020-04-2028 minVoicing StartupsSpokenLayer with Will - Ep. 27This week on the Voicing Startups podcast I am talking with Will, Founder and CSO at SpokenLayer. SpokenLayer is the leader in short-form audio production, distribution, and monetization for both media and brands. One thing I love that makes them unique is their distribution. They distribute everywhere people are listening including Spotify, iTunes, Alexa, Google Assistant and more! Will has a clear passion for short form audio and it shows in our conversation.
To start off our interview Will gives us his background as well as the origin story of how he ultimately started SpokenLayer. Following the...2020-04-1330 minVoicing StartupsHi Auto with Roy - Ep. 26This week on the Voicing Startups podcast I am talking with Roy, Founder and CEO of Hi Auto. Hi Auto develops software that enables speech enhancement and speaker separation that focuses solely on the person speaking while eliminating challenging background noises. This is done through the use of a camera, which tracks lip movements and a single microphone. While Hi Auto works well with many audio only inputs, the combination of audio and video is where they really shine.
To start off this episode we discuss Roy’s background, the origin story of Hi Auto and what ex...2020-04-0631 minVoicing StartupsSpeechly with Otto - Ep. 25This week on the Voicing Startups podcast I am talking with Otto, Co-Founder and CEO of Speechly. Speechly is helping developers build next generation voice user interfaces. What makes them unique from offerings by incumbents like Google or Amazon is their Speech-to-intent spoken language understanding API. This API allows developers to build real-time, multi-modal interfaces for complex natural language enabled tasks for both consumer and enterprise applications alike.
To start off this episode, we talk about Otto's extensive background in both software and business. We then dig into how himself and some university friends came up with...2020-03-1631 minVoicing Startupswhat3words with Josh - Ep. 24This week on the Voicing Startups podcast I am talking with Josh, CPO of what3words. what3words is a simple way to talk about location. The what3words team has made the entire world a grid of 3 meter squares that each have a unique 3 word address that will never change. For example, ///filled.count.soap marks the exact entrance to what3words’ London headquarters. The benefit is that 3 word addresses are easy to say and share, and are as accurate as GPS coordinates. People are using what3words for everything from finding a tent at a festival to pr...2020-03-0927 minVoicing StartupsAgVoice with Bruce - Ep. 23This week on the Voicing Startups podcast I am talking with Bruce, Co-Founder and CEO of AgVoice. AgVoice is designed for use across the food and agriculture ecosystem, including livestock and crop production, agronomy, animal health and wellness, and machinery repair. By using proprietary analytics and conversational AI, users can improve productivity and workflow management, increase documentation accuracy, and gain valuable insights to optimize the use of resources in crop and animal production. Ultimately this results in more sustainable farm practices as well as more efficient, traceable and accurate reporting from professionals and producers.
In this interview...2020-03-0230 minVoicing StartupsVoicePunch with Marc - Ep. 22This week’s episode of the Voicing Startups podcast is a bit different. Usually I am interviewing different startups in the audio and voice space, but today I am talking with Marc Ladin, General Partner at VoicePunch. VoicePunch is an early stage venture capital fund that has a thematic focus on audio and voice tech. The fund has been actively investing since January of 2019 and is in the process of raising our next fund. I joined the VoicePunch team about a year ago, and I believe Marc and I working together resulted in us having a really good interview an...2020-02-1731 minVoicing StartupsWunder with Sandra - Ep. 21This week on the Voicing Startups podcast I am talking with Sandra, Head of Project Management at Wunder. Wunder is the first all-in-one parenting assistant that uses voice technology and A.I. to give new parents the right information at the right time and improve the child’s language and cognitive development. Through the use of a baby monitor and mobile app, Wunder helps parents thoughtfully navigate the first 1000 days of life and raise happy, healthy, curious and all-around good children.
To start off the interview, Sandra gives a background of herself and how she became the fi...2020-02-0336 minVoicing StartupsVOIQ with Ricardo - Ep. 20This week on the Voicing Startups podcast I am talking with Ricardo, Founder and CEO of VOIQ. VOIQ creates conversational Voicebots that empower companies to use human-like AI Voicebots for highly personalized inbound and outbound calls. This provides a great option for starting and continuing conversations with leads or customers in an automated way. Also worth noting, VOIQ is backed by the popular startup accelerator Y Combinator.
To kick off the interview, Ricardo talks through his background and why he ultimately decided to start VOIQ. Following this background, we spend some time discussing questions around the business...2020-01-2729 minVoicing StartupsBamboo Learning with Ian - Ep. 19This week on the Voicing Startups podcast I am talking with Ian Freed, Co-Founder and CEO of Bamboo Learning. Bamboo Learning is the leader in interactive voice powered education and have recently closed a $1.4M Seed investment round. Also, I have been super excited to interview Ian, given he is a 12 year Amazon veteran with endless interesting experiences. Here is a bit of his bio. At Amazon, Ian was a Vice President, and he served as Technology Adviser to Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos from 2004-2005. He led the Amazon Kindle business including business strategy, product development, business...2020-01-2053 minVoicing StartupsPhebi with Travis - Ep. 18This week on the Voicing Startups podcast I am talking with Travis of Phebi. Phebi, comprised of Phebi Search and Phebi Insight, is a company that creates voice centric products for businesses. Using Phebi, customers can take advantage of the opportunities in V-Commerce and better understand their customers while doing so. For this episode of the podcast, we hyper focused on the Phebi Search product.
To start off this episode, Travis starts with the origin of how Phebi came to be a business. We then start to dig into the actual Phebi Search product, which allows you...2020-01-1336 minVoicing StartupsHome Service AI with Petar - Ep. 17This week on the Voicing Startups podcast I am talking with Petar, Founder and CEO of Home Service AI. Home Service AI is the Ultimate AI Chatbot and Voice Assistant for Vacation Rentals and Hotels. Home Service AI is used by hosts and property managers to ensure that their guests have a great experience through the use of conversational technology. The end result of this for property managers is time savings and higher customer reviews which can both help a business's bottom line.
To start off this interview, we take a look at what got Petar interested...2019-12-1642 minVoicing StartupsEmitrr with Anmol - Ep. 16This week on Voicing Startups I am talking with Anmol, Founder of Emitrr. Emitrr is a voice first SaaS platform that helps professional service businesses enable voice for their business. Ultimately, Emitrr is giving businesses a platform to create valuable and actionable voice experiences for their customers whether it be in the form of content creation like podcasts or voice controlled scheduling. In this conversation, we talk about how compelling it can be for businesses to be prepared for the continued evolution of voice in the marketplace.
To kick off this week’s interview, Anmol gives the or...2019-12-0929 minVoicing StartupsInstreamatic with Stas - Ep. 15This week on Voicing Startups I am talking with Stas, Co-Founder and CEO of Instreamatic. Instreamatic is a Voice AI platform for dialogue advertising. Their mission is to revolutionize the advertising industry by allowing users to speak with ads: with the ability to skip irrelevant ads and drive curiosity to learn more in a hands-free environment just by saying so. According to Instreamatic, dialogue advertising creates a huge win for everyone: users get a better ad experience, advertisers can measure campaign performance and engagement, publishers benefit with higher ad and fill-rates.
To start this episode, we...2019-12-0225 minVoicing StartupsBespoken with Diego - Ep. 14This week on Voicing Startups I am talking with Diego, product manager at Bespoken. The main business of Bespoken is automated testing and monitoring tools that are used for voice apps on platforms like the Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. This results in quicker development and higher quality experiences being made in the end. Some of the specific tools that we touch on this episode include Unit Testing, End to End Testing, Continuous Testing and Usability Testing.
Throughout this episode we cover many different aspects of both the Bespoken business as well as the world of...2019-11-2526 minVoicing StartupsThe Artificial Podcast Interviews Me on Voice and Startups - Ep. 13This weeks episode of Voicing Startups will be a little bit different. As opposed to me sitting down and interviewing a different company in the audio and voice space, I am sharing with everybody an interview where the tables were turned. I was the one being interviewed talking all about the world of audio and voice but from the lens of my day to day work with a thematic focused venture fund called Voicepunch with an interest in the audio and voice space. In this episode you can hear all about why I got interested in voice and how...2019-11-1843 minVoicing StartupsSurveyLine with Stuart - Ep. 12Today on the Voicing Startups podcast I am talking with Stuart, CEO and Founder of SurveyLine. A simple way to understand SurveyLine is to think of the well known company Survey Monkey. It is a similar service that allows for customers to create and distribute surveys, but the catch is that end consumers are able to interact with the survey using their voice through popular devices like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant enabled devices. We dig into the value propositions of this business and also voice technology throughout this episode.
In this episode we dig into the...2019-11-1231 minVoicing StartupsVoicehero with Joseph - Ep. 11Today on the Voicing Startups podcast I am talking with Joseph, Co-Founder and CEO of Voicehero. Voicehero ultimately is a suite of tools that helps customers create better voice experiences. This is done by giving users the ability to immediately discover actionable insights, and identify conversation patterns in user behaviors that otherwise may be overlooked. Voicehero was also a member of the 2019 Alexa Accelerator, ran by Techstars, that focus on startups in the voice space.
In this episode, we cover many different things about both the Voicehero business, but also the world of voice. To start off...2019-11-0423 min
The Artificial Podcast24: Collin Borns | Voice-First In The World of Startups and Venture CapitalCollin Borns has a background in institutional investment consulting and financial operations having recently worked in finance at Vaynermedia in Los Angeles, CA. Collin currently works as an associate with a venture capital fund that has a thematic focus in audio and voice called Voicepunch. Collin also runs a daily flash briefing on voice technology and its impact on business called Voicing Business. Collin is also the host of a new podcast called Voicing Startups that focuses on bringing awareness to startups that focus on audio and Voice-First technology.
In this week’s episode of The Artificial Po...2019-11-0443 minVoice in Canada PodcastVoice First Startups with Collin Borns of VoicePunchIn this episode, Teri has a conversation with Collin Borns of VoicePunch about voicefirst startups and the investment side of voice technology. Welcome, Collin!Collin Borns is a creator/host of the Voicing Startups Podcast and has a background in institutional investment consulting. He worked for VaynerMedia as a financial analyst, before finding a passion for audio, voice, and conversational technology a few years back.He now works with an early stage venture fund, VoicePunch.VC, and is trying to invest in and bring awareness to the different startups and f...2019-10-2923 min
Voice in Canada BriefcastVoice in Canada - Podcast Preview: Voice Startups with Collin BornsOct 29, 2019Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/Voice-in-Canada. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.2019-10-2900 minVoicing StartupsBotmock with Obaid - Ep. 10Today on the Voicing Startups podcast I am talking with Obaid, Founder and CEO of Botmock. Botmock is a one stop shop platform that has everything you need to prototype and test both chatbot and voice-based conversational experiences. Features include a drag-n-drop editor, project management tools, usability testing, developer handover and more. As you will hear in the interview, the true value of Botmock gets unlocked by having the ability to have different stakeholders have insight into the project, all the way from designers to developers.
We kick off the episode with a great origin story and...2019-10-2829 minVoicing StartupsTrebble.fm with Armel - Ep. 9Today on the Voicing Startups podcast I am talking with Armel, the founder of Trebble.fm. Trebble lets you stay up-to-date with all the different topics you care about by listening to short-casts (1 to 2-minute podcasts) from your favorite sources and content creators. Through the Trebble platform you are able to listen to these short-casts on your phone, on the web or any voice-enabled speakers with Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant. Being a creator of short-casts I was super excited to do this interview, and Armel exceeded all expectations.
In this interview we touched on many different...2019-10-2130 minVoicing StartupsWhetstone Technologies with Sanj and John - Ep. 8Today on the Voicing Startups podcast I am talking with Sanjeev and John of Whetstone Technologies, both Veterans of Microsoft. Whetstone Technologies created the SoniBridge platform that is able to provide a voice-first, multimodal experience across multiple different voice assistants for businesses and brands, encouraging consumers to opt-in to receive text messages with things like coupons, web site links, videos, and instructions.
In this episode we cover all the different aspects of the Sonibridge platform as well as different trends in the voice space. While describing what exactly Whetstone technologies and the Sonibridge platform is, Sanjeev and...2019-10-1424 minVoicing StartupsPulse Labs with Dylan - Ep. 7Today on the Voicing Startups podcast I talked with Dylan Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder of Pulse Labs. Pulse Labs aims to help developers, designers, agencies, and brands create the best voice applications they possibly can. They do this today by providing a platform and panel to deliver real user feedback and insights for voice applications. They are extremely excited about the emerging voice ecosystem, and do everything they can to help create great user experiences within it. Their work has gained the attention, support, and investment of companies like Amazon and Google.
In this episode we...2019-10-0718 minVoicing StartupsFIVE (Financial Interactive Voice Experience) Platform with John - Ep. 6Today on the Voicing Startups podcast I interview John Best of Best Innovation Group and the FIVE (Financial Interactive Voice Experience) Platform. The FIVE Platform helps Credit Unions keep with the times and give the ability to adopt voice-driven technology as customers expect to do the same transactions that they do via a mobile app or online using their voice. The benefits of this results in Speed, Convenience and Security for the users.
To start out on this episode of Voicing Startups, John gives a background of himself in the credit union space and why he...2019-09-3049 minVoicing StartupsVoices.com with David - Ep. 5Today on Voicing Startups, I interview David, the Founder of Voices.com. Voices.com is the industry-leading website that connects businesses with professional voice talent. People from all around the world working at radio and television stations, advertising agencies and Fortune 500 companies rely upon the Voices.com marketplace to search for, audition and hire voice talent with the help of their SurePay™ escrow service and award-winning website and mobile apps.
In this episode we start the conversation with David’s background, how he ultimately decided to start Voices.com and an explanation of the 2-sided marketplace that make...2019-09-2334 minVoicing StartupsResemble.AI with Zohaib - Ep. 4Today on the Voicing Startups podcast I interview Zohaib, the founder of Resemble. Resemble creates high-quality synthetic voices that capture human emotions. Their goal is to democratize audio content and allow anyone to craft dynamic content in unique voices - all in real-time. They work with brands, media companies, creative agencies, and game studios to clone and scale existing voices or create completely fictitious voices that fit a character profile.
This podcast starts with a background of what Resemble is and why Zohaib and his team ended up creating the product in the first place. We go...2019-09-1921 minVoicing StartupsVoiceflow with Braden Ream - Ep. 3Today on Voicing Startups I had the chance to talk with Braden Ream, Co-Founder and CEO of Voiceflow. Voiceflow is a creative platform to help people design, prototype, and build voice apps without coding for Alexa + Google Assistant. One reason I really liked this interview was that Voiceflow was the product of Braden and his team scratching their own itch as Voice app builders for a tool that had a little more muscle behind it and would fit their needs.
In this episode of Voicing Startups Braden talks about the origin of Voiceflow while also digging into...2019-09-1835 minVoicing StartupsPat Inc. with Beth - Ep. 2Welcome to Voicing Startups where I, Collin Borns, interview founders and operators changing the world through audio, voice, and conversational technology. Today on the show I am talking to Beth Carey, Co-Founder and CEO of Pat Inc. Pat Inc is a Natural Language Understanding company, better put Pat Inc enables meaning of human language for machines. If you are interested in the work being done by this company and are an investor, Pat would love to hear from you. They are currently raising a round focused on increasing Pat’s knowledge.
In this episode we get into wh...2019-09-1733 minVoicing StartupsYAC.chat with Justin and Hunter - Ep.1Thanks for listening to this episode of Voicing Startups. Today on the show I am talking to Justin, Jordan and Hunter of YAC.chat and at the core they are voice messaging for remote teams, but have plans for a whole suite of tools. Since our chat they released a tool that is a part of the YAC suite called Backtrack that lets you record all those conversations, you forgot to click the record button for, by over-writing a 60 minute window of audio over and over throughout the day, locally on your Mac that only saves if you tell...2019-09-1625 minVoicing StartupsThe Voicing Startups Podcast - Introduction EpisodeHey everyone, my name is Collin Borns, host of the Voicing Startups Podcast. The purpose of this episode is to give some insight into what you can expect from the podcast and why I am doing this in the first place. Ultimately, I have a huge passion for early stage companies and startups. Ever since I was a little boy I had a fascination and passion to start my own business and be an investor in companies. Fast forward to today and another fascination has come into my life. Voice and conversational technology. After I started to build a...2019-09-1602 min